Book Dreams

A podcast for everyone who loves

books and misses English class.

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New Episodes

Book DreamsOct 6

America’s Fundamental Myths and Narratives

“I think the narratives about capital are an even more fundamental myth in America than those about the frontier.” Pulitzer...Book DreamsSep 22

Injured Innocence and Violent Nostalgia

“A monk asked, ‘What is meditation?’ The Master said, ‘It is not meditation.’ The monk said, ‘Why is it “not meditation”?’ The Master...Book DreamsSep 8

"We should pay more attention to perspectives."

“I get so upset during conversations about politics with certain family members, I feel like my body’s on the verge of explosion, with...Book DreamsSep 1

“How Will We Know…That the Baltimore Police Department Has Turned a Corner?”

We Own This City–written by Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist Justin Fenton and the basis for David Simon’s HBO miniseries–tells the...Book DreamsAug 25

[Re-Release] “Why are you talking about this essay that you never talk about?”

(RE-RELEASE) In this week’s episode, Eve and Julie speak with Jo Ann Beard about Festival Days, her extraordinary new collection of...Book DreamsAug 18

"I always knew I loved you, E. B. White."

Welcome back to another installment of our favorite bibliophilic game, You Want Me to Read WHAT? The rules are simple: Julie, Eve, and a...Book DreamsAug 11

The First Black Woman to Become a Federal Judge

Constance Baker Motley was a groundbreaking civil rights lawyer and the first Black woman to become a federal judge. Her “world-changing...Book DreamsAug 4

The Private Investigator Behind America’s First Title IX Case

One pivotal afternoon, Erika Krouse met an attorney in a bookstore when they both reached for the same Paul Auster novel. Much to his...

More Episodes

Jul 28

Piranesi & Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Tensions are running high at Book Dreams! Why? The fantasy novels of author Susanna Clarke, that's why. After Julie--and multiple Book...Jul 21

“For what, for what, for what?”

Fiction can invite the reader into unknown worlds and perspectives, or it can hold up a mirror so that we can see the familiar more...Jul 14

What Neanderthals and Other Ancient Hominins Teach Us About Being Human

What makes us human? It’s a question we keep coming back to, in part because it's got no definitive answer. In this week’s episode we...Jul 7

How do you write a trailblazing woman back into history after her iconic colleagues wrote her out?

(RE-RELEASE) How do you write a trailblazing woman back into history after her iconic colleagues wrote her out? Dr. Sally Roesch...Jun 30

Why Is a Great Gray Owl like a Victorian Ear Trumpet?

Sometimes finding hope requires shifting our gaze from humanity. In this episode of Book Dreams, we take an up-close and uplifting look...Jun 23

The “Bad and Putrid” Disneyfication of Bambi

Fairy tales. Why have they survived a thousand years of re-telling? How do they adapt to reflect changing times, places, and...Jun 16

“A Burning Desire to Know What Happens Next”

"I always think of that moment in North by Northwest, the Hitchcock movie, when someone is falling off one of the mountains in Mount...Jun 9

The Most Critically Acclaimed Cookbook of the Year

The best cookbooks are so much more than collections of recipes. They’re windows into a life or a place or a time or a way of thinking....Jun 2

The “Morally Fraught Endeavor” of War

How should we, as a country, execute our military power, and what role should we, as citizens, play in military policy? In what ways does...May 26

What Makes Us Human?

In this episode, Eve and Julie explore one of our favorite questions with James Suzman, PhD, in a wide-ranging conversation about his...May 19

"It began to really feel like a haunting."

Ellen McGarrahan was a young reporter at the Miami Herald when she volunteered to witness the execution of Jesse Tafero, who’d been...May 12

What do wild bears and libertarians have in common?

In 2004 a group of libertarians founded the Free Town Project, a movement to take over a town and turn it into a libertarian utopia....All Episodes

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