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On today’s episode of You Are What You Read, we are excited to welcome the great Alice Hoffman, live from The Strand bookstore in New York City. This is a conversation about Alice’s new novel, The Witches of Cambridge, this September’s Read with Jenna selection. Alice is the author of over thirty novels including The Dovekeepers, Magic Lessons, The Book of Magic, Practical Magic, and Practical Magic 2, the sequel to the blockbuster book and film, which is now in theaters starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman and directed by Susanne Bier (who you can also hear on the podcast, S1:E50).
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On today’s episode, we are excited to welcome Victoria Aveyard to the show. Victoria is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the blockbuster young adult novels: the RED QUEEN series and the REALM BREAKER trilogy. Her books have been translated into over 40 languages and counting. In this conversation, we discuss Victoria’s adult fiction debut, TEMPEST, which hits shelves today.
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Thank you, dear listeners, for joining us this summer on You Are What You Read. We read your comments, and we know what books you have been reading and sharing with your book clubs. In the final weeks of summer, we are bringing back your favorite episodes and authors to the podcast. “The Best of Summer” on You Are What You Read welcomes back the biggest bestsellers of summer 2026. This week, Kathryn Stockett joins us with The Calamity Club.
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On today’s episode of You Are What You Read, we are thrilled to welcome a fellow podcaster and award-winning executive producer and writer, Scott Carter. Scott is the host of Ye Gods, a podcast that explores religion and culture with amazing guests. In his latest season of Ye Gods, Scott celebrates the 250th anniversary of America with notable historians and authors for conversations that explore our nation’s political and spiritual history and share the beliefs that define their own moral compass.
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On this week’s episode of You Are What You Read, we are excited to welcome the great RICHARD RUSSO. You know Richard’s work: Somebody’s Fool, Chances Are…, Everybody’s Fool, and That Old Cape Magic; two collections of stories; and the memoir Elsewhere, among others. In 2002, Richard received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which, like Nobody’s Fool, won multiple awards for its screen adaptation, and in 2023 his novel Straight Man was adapted into the television series Lucky Hank. In 2017 he received France’s Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine. Richard’s new novel, Under the Falls, is out this week.
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