Episodes

  • Chad Harbach and the Art of Female Perspective

    Chad Harbach and the Art of Female Perspective
    Nov 12 2026
    Chad Harbach hasn’t published a new novel in 15 years…until now. We could not be more excited, because his novel The Art of Fielding was one of our all time favorites. This time he brings us back to the campus of Westish College for The Brightness, a novel about female friendships, the complexities of the female struggle, and the art of being a woman. This is no easy feat for a male author and he does it beautifully. A worthy successor to The Art of Fielding, The Brightness is a wonderful piece of fiction and we loved talking to him about how he produced it. In this show we also talk to Comma, a Bookshop (the owner is Victoria Ford). We will be talking to bookshops in one city and town at a time to find out how the support their communities, and how they support each OTHER in the community in which they operate, and Comma is our first in a series of Twin Cities independent booksellers. Join us! Find books mentioned on The Book Case: ⁠https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/shop/story/book-case-podcast-reading-list-118433302 Books mentioned in this episode: The Brightness by Chad Harbach The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    33 mins
  • Nathaniel Philbrick Brings Us The Rush

    Nathaniel Philbrick Brings Us The Rush
    Nov 5 2026
    Nathaniel Philbrick has written a lot of books putting American History into perspective. His latest, The Rush, is about the CA gold rush, which, much to our surprise, was a determining factor in jump starting the Civil War. How was the Gold Rush a reflection of America’s struggle with race? How did it cause the railroad to be built across the country? Exactly how much gold was there and how much fighting occurred as a result? If CA is so huge, why is it not two states? We answer all these fascinating questions and more, learning from Nathaniel Philbrick, one of America’s premiere history authors. We also talk to an old friend of Kate’s, Andrea Carson, who takes independent bookstore road trip trail vacations all over the country. Join us! Find books mentioned on The Book Case: ⁠https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/shop/story/book-case-podcast-reading-list-118433302 Books mentioned in this episode: The Rush: California Gold, The Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World by Nathaniel PhilbrickTravels with George by Nathaniel PhilbrickValiant Ambition by Nathaniel PhilbrickIn the Hurricane’s Eye by Nathaniel PhilbrickBunker Hill by Nathaniel PhilbrickWho Read Moby Dick? by Nathaniel PhilbrickA Way off Shore by Nathaniel PhilbrickThe Last Stand by Nathaniel PhilbrickMayflower by Nathaniel PhilbrickSea of Glory by Nathaniel PhilbrickIn the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick Follow Andrea’s Bookstore Travels at @neverendingbookstorecrawl Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    37 mins
  • Horror Greats for Halloween

    Horror Greats for Halloween
    Oct 29 2026
    Charlie challenged Kate to get him to consider horror literature. And she did just that. We assembled Stephen Graham Jones, Jennifer McMahon and Victor LaValle to talk about why horror speaks to them and how they write it so well. It’s an extended and deeper conversation of what aired on GMA a week ago, and we just love this conversation. Join us if you dare! Find books mentioned on The Book Case: https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/shop/story/book-case-podcast-reading-list-118433302 Books mentioned in this week's episode: Off the Reservation by Stephen Graham Jones The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones My Heart is a Chain Saw by Stephen Graham Jones Don’t Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones The Angel of Indian Lake by Stephen Graham Jones Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones Lone Women by Victor LaValle The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle The Changeling by Victor LaValle Big Machine by Victor LaValle The Ecstatic by Victor LaValle Stay Buried by Jennifer McMahon The Children on the Hill by Jennifer McMahon The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon My Darling Girl by Jennifer McMahon The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon The Invited by Jennifer McMahon Burntown by Jennifer McMahon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    39 mins
  • Bonnie Garmus and the Unique World of Peck & Peck

    Bonnie Garmus and the Unique World of Peck & Peck
    Oct 22 2026
    Bonnie Garmus’ follow up to GMA Book Club Pick Lessons in Chemistry, called Peck & Peck, is a wild and funny foray into the world of poetry. Compulsively readable with unforgettable characters, the novel centers around Batter, a poetry editor who ends up at a world renown poetry publication, called Peck & Peck. What is the world of poets and their editors occupy? What do they have to believe in to do well? We ask the author. Also, we are joined by Periwinkle books, a new store in Bronxville NY. Join us! Find books mentioned on The Book Case: https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/shop/story/book-case-podcast-reading-list-118433302 Books mentioned in this week's episode: Peck & Peck by Bonnie Garmus Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus The General’s Daughter by Nelson DeMille Less by Andrew Sean Greer Whistler by Ann Patchett Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    43 mins
  • Yiyun Li and the Music of Writing

    Yiyun Li and the Music of Writing
    Oct 15 2026
    When we visited with Ann Patchett a few months ago, she talked almost non stop about Yiyun Li’s newest, MUSIC AGAINST THE NIGHT, which she called “close the perfect novel”. We went right home and read it and booked Yiyun for her earliest availability, because she was right. Yiyun Li, the writer of MUSIC AGSINST THE NIGHT, joins us to talk about her beautifully written new book, and why she felt, at this stage in her career, she felt comfortable tackling a literary trilogy. We also talk to a not for profit, BINC, whose purpose is to financially support independent booksellers for any variety of reasons. Join us! Find books mentioned on The Book Case: https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/shop/story/book-case-podcast-reading-list-118433302 Books mentioned in this week's episode: Music Against the Night by Yiyun Li Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li Wednesday’s Child by Yiyun Li The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li Where Reasons End by Yiyun Li The Vagrants by Yiyun Li Gold Boy, Emerald Girl by Yiyun Li A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li Whistler by Ann Patchett War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Moby Dick by Herman Melville The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    40 mins
  • TWO FOR ONE: Robert Kolker AND Chloe Benjamin

    TWO FOR ONE: Robert Kolker AND Chloe Benjamin
    Oct 8 2026
    This week we have to terrific authors in one show. Robert Kolker’s newest, The Vanishing Family, is a look at a family afflicted with an early onset dementia, and how this family could revolutionize the way we think about the aging mind. Chloe Benjamin was GMA’s September Book Club pick, and although we are late to the party, we are proud to get to attend at all. It’s a mind-blowing book about time flowing backwards, and forwards. Join us for a sit down with two great authors and their two great books. Find books mentioned on The Book Case: https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/shop/story/book-case-podcast-reading-list-118433302 Books mentioned in this week's episode: Understory by Chloe Benjamin The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin The Anatomy of Dreams by Chloe Benjamin The Vanishing Family by Robert Kolker Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker Lost Girls by Robert Kolker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    28 mins
  • Catherine Grace Katz: the Hindenburg and the Humanity

    Catherine Grace Katz: the Hindenburg and the Humanity
    Oct 1 2026
    Up until now, there hasn’t really been a complete compendium on the Hindenburg disaster. Catherine Grace Katz gives it us in SHADOW BEFORE THE FLAME, and it is a page turner. Filled with top notch research, Katz drops readers squarely in the 1930’s so that they experience the majesty, mystery and looming fascism that cloaked the Hindenburg’s journey from Germany to the US. Something the size of three football fields was destroyed in 34 seconds. What did the people see on the ground? What did the passengers feel and see as it combusted? Did anyone live? These are all questions asked and answered on this week’s podcast. Join us! Find books mentioned on The Book Case: https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/shop/story/book-case-podcast-reading-list-118433302 Books mentioned in this week's episode: Shadow Before the Flame: The Hindenburg Disaster and the Prelude to War by Catherine Grace Katz The Daughters of Yalta by Catherine Grace Katz Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    33 mins
  • Jennifer McMahon and the Allure of Haunted Towns

    Jennifer McMahon and the Allure of Haunted Towns
    Sep 30 2026
    Jennifer McMahon has been called the Shirley Jackson of her generation. Her newest, Stay Buried, is a fascinating look at what can happen to a small town when beset with an almost inhuman pandemic, and how they turn on each other as the diseases claims victim after victim (sound familiar?). Come join us for a great conversation with Jennifer in which we talk abut her ides, her process, and how there is a touch of the scary in so many of the classics we love. Find books mentioned on The Book Case: https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/shop/story/book-case-podcast-reading-list-118433302 Books mentioned in this week's episode: Stay Unburied by Jennifer McMahonThe Children on the Hill by Jennifer McMahonMy Darling Girl by Jennifer McMahonThe Winter People by Jennifer McMahonThe Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahonPromise Not to Tell by Jennifer McMahonKin by Tayari JonesThe Lottery by Shirley JacksonBeloved by Toni MorrisonLord of the Flies by William GoldingHamlet by William Shakespeare Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    31 mins