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Are you stuck in a reading rut? The Book Case makes the case for books outside of your usual genre. Wander the aisles of your local bookstore with Kate and Charlie Gibson and meet fascinating characters who will open your appetite to new categories while deepening your hunger for books. This weekly series will journey cover to cover through the literary world, featuring interviews with best-selling authors, tastemakers, and independent bookstore owners. New episodes post every Thursday.
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- Today36 min
Nathaniel Philbrick Brings Us The Rush
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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- 1 weeks ago38 min
Horror Greats for Halloween
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
- 2 weeks ago42 min
Bonnie Garmus and the Unique World of Peck & Peck
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
- 3 weeks ago40 min
Yiyun Li and the Music of Writing
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
- 4 weeks ago28 min
TWO FOR ONE: Robert Kolker AND Chloe Benjamin
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
- Oct 1, 202632 min
Catherine Grace Katz: the Hindenburg and the Humanity
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
- Sep 17, 202634 min
Jodi Picoult Talks Hollow Bones
Jodi Picoult’s newest, Hollow Bones, is probably more topical than even she would have wanted. A book that heart wrenchingly twists the anniversaries of 9/11 along with a serious look at Post Partem Psychosis, Picoult acknowledges how relevant this story may be in the shadow of the Lindsay Clancy trial. She of course, could not know how riveting and frightening that trial would be for so many Americans to read about and watch, and this book treats the subject with sensitivity and care. Join us as we talk to Picoult about how she feels about PPP as a mother herself (and grandmother) and how the medical system needs to do better for new moms. Find books mentioned on The Book Case: https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/shop/story/book-case-podcast-reading-list-118433302 Books featured in this episode: Hollow Bones by Jodi Picoult By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult Vanishing Act by Jodi Picoult Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult Perfect Match by Jodi Picoult The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab The Life of Pi by Yann Martel Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- Sep 10, 202631 min
Harlan Coben Gives Us a Writing Class
Plot Twist by Harlan Coben is a non fiction book that focusses on writing: the desperation, the inspiration, the execution…it’s all here. And it’s compulsively readable and wonderfully conversational, just like Harlan. Join us as we ask him about his tips and tricks, and why there is no substitution for getting your heart and mind on the page. Find books mentioned on The Book Case: https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/shop/story/book-case-podcast-reading-list-118433302 Books featured in this episode: Plot Twist: Life, Craft and the Messy First Draft by Harlan Coben Gone Before Goodbye by Harlan Coben and Reese Witherspoon Nobody’s Fool by Harlan Coben Fool Me Once by Harlan Coben Deal Breaker by Harlan Coben Drop Shot by Harlan Coben Fade Away by Harlan Coben Back Spin by Harlan Coben One False Move by Harlan Coben The Final Detail by Harlan Coben Darkest Fear by Harlan Coben Promise Me by Harlan Coben Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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