Episodi

  • Book Public: 'Music Against the Night' by Yiyun Li
    Oct 14 2026
    Acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning author Yiyun Li discusses Music Against the Night, a sweeping historical novel set in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Through the lives of two musicians, Li explores artistic ambition, sacrifice and the elusive promise of being remembered.
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    24 min
  • Book Public: 'My Heart Is Broken' by Mavis Gallant
    Oct 7 2026
    A reflection on Mavis Gallant’s “My Heart Is Broken,” a powerful story about violence, silence and the limits of our ability to understand another person’s suffering.
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    3 min
  • Book Public: 'Simple Recipes' by Madeleine Thien
    Sep 30 2026
    A review of Madeleine Thien’s story collection, "Simple Recipes." It's a quietly powerful collection about family, displacement and the ways love, memory and history shape the lives we inherit.
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    5 min
  • Mirror Books: The books that helped Sandra Cisneros see herself
    Sep 16 2026
    Mirror Books is a new podcast series from Book Public at Texas Public Radio about seeing ourselves — and discovering and knowing others — through books. Our inaugural guest is acclaimed author Sandra Cisneros, whose writing has become a mirror for countless readers. Listen as she discusses not just one mirror book, but many — and the ways these books she discovered from childhood through adulthood have remained important to her.
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    21 min
  • Book Public: 'Unsayable' by Michael Cunningham
    Jul 29 2026
    Michael Cunningham, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Hours, discusses his new book, Unsayable: A Life in Writing, and the mysteries of memory, imagination and storytelling.
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    28 min
  • Book Public: 'The Typing Lady' by Ruth Ozeki
    Jul 1 2026
    In this interview, Ruth Ozeki talks about writing stories, publishing a story collection at age 70, the supremely skilled ways she can write about a range of characters in diverse places, the trunk full of ideas around stories and loss and, of course, typing.
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    30 min
  • Book Public: 'Descanso for My Father' by Harrison Candelaria Fletcher
    Jun 18 2026
    In this episode, Book Public host Yvette Benavides shares a reflection on an essay collection that explores grief and how we make meaning from loss.
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    6 min
  • Book Public: 'The Things We Never Say' by Elizabeth Strout
    May 20 2026
    What are the mysteries behind the quiet routines of one Artie Dam, a high school history teacher in Elizabeth Strout’s latest novel? The Things We Never Say explores isolation and the painful, fragile truths we keep hidden because we don't have the words to talk about them. And yet, this luminous novel gives us a lexicon of loneliness that challenges the fundamental idea that we can never truly know each other. Turns out, the beauty is in trying.
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    8 min