Episodes

  • Steve Bertrand on Books: Joe Bond

    Steve Bertrand on Books: Joe Bond
    Aug 19 2026
    Hope House is described as a tender, and yet profane, study of masculinity. Put another way: Hope House follows a group of delinquents trying to find a better life (in most cases) and a halfway house leader desperate to help them discover their way. It’s a loving tribune from author Joe Bond, whose father ran […]
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  • Steve Bertrand on Books: Stephanie Soileau

    Steve Bertrand on Books: Stephanie Soileau
    Aug 12 2026
    The Mississippi Delta and the Cajuns who live there are under threat. When the land dwindles, the culture erodes. That’s the setting behind Stephanie Soileau’s novel, Should the Water Take Us. The story begins during the Deepwater Oil explosion and after Katrina but also follows the Acadians’ trek from Canada to elsewhere, including Kankakee county. […]
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  • Steve Bertrand on Books: Imogen Willetts

    Steve Bertrand on Books: Imogen Willetts
    Aug 5 2026
    Nightlife is under attack. In Imogen Willetts’ book Up All Night, she says the UK lost half of its nightclubs from 2013 to 2024. And the story is the same elsewhere. Why is that and is the traditional Saturday night doomed? Willetts talks with Steve about the history of nightlife, going back to feudal Japan, and […]
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  • Steve Bertrand on Books: Catherine Ryan Howard

    Steve Bertrand on Books: Catherine Ryan Howard
    Jul 29 2026
    Would you buy a house where you know something terrible had happened in the past? That’s the question behind “Buyer Beware,” the latest novel from Irish writer Catherine Ryan Howard. She talks with Steve about her novel, about watching her earlier books adapted for TV, and about and about one of her favorite breakfast places […]
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  • Steve Bertrand on Books: Mark Billingham

    Steve Bertrand on Books: Mark Billingham
    Jul 22 2026
    If you’re a fan of British crime drama, you probably know Mark Billingham. His Tom Thorne series, and other projects, have made the jump to TV. His latest novel is The Shadow Step, the third in his Detective Declan Miller series. Miller is a good cop who likes to crack a joke. Some of them are […]
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  • Steve Bertrand on Books: Steven Rowley

    Steve Bertrand on Books: Steven Rowley
    Jul 15 2026
    You might know novelist Steven Rowley for his book The Guncle or The Guncle Abroad. His lead character really travels in his latest, Take Me With You. Imagine waking up in the middle of the night and finding a bright light inviting you to be swept off to outer space. Would you go with and […]
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  • Steve Bertrand on Books: Courtney Maum

    Steve Bertrand on Books: Courtney Maum
    Jul 1 2026
    You have too much stuff and Alan Anderson is the guy who convinced you to buy it. Now he sees the error of his ways and he’s shunned his worldly goods, living in a shed in his backyard and bathing in Long Island Sound. That’s the notion behind this very funny novel from Courtney Maum: […]
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  • Steve Bertrand on Books: Ben Reeves

    Steve Bertrand on Books: Ben Reeves
    Jul 8 2026
    Ben Reeves has written a beautiful debut novel about…death. Travis seems like an ordinary guy; he’s single and lives alone with his cat in his apartment. But his job is to be with us when we die. Some of us recognize him at that moment while others don’t. Either way, Reeves’ accounts of their deaths […]
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