A Children's Book for Our Time

by Mark Bauerlein

 Matthew Mehan joins the podcast to discuss his recent children's book, The Handsome Little Cygnet. Continue Reading »

3 Jan 2022

T Is for Timeless

by Elizabeth C. Corey

Once a month, a robin’s-egg-blue box arrives at our house. “Mama! Mama! My books are here!” shouts my six-year-old daughter as she runs from the front door to the kitchen. We open the box to find personalized stickers, bookmarks, posters, and sometimes coloring pages or little paper games. The . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2021

Sarah Josepha Hale: Intellectual, Editor, Mother

by Mark Bauerlein

Melanie Kirkpatrick joins the podcast to discuss her new book, Lady Editor: Sarah Josepha Hale and the Making of the Modern American Woman. Continue Reading »

21 Oct 2021

Literature of the Word

by Patricia Snow

I have always been somewhat bemused by the perennial popularity of Little Women, Louisa May Alcott’s nineteenth—century novel about four New England sisters coming of age. At least once a decade a new film or television adaptation appears, and the list of successful women writers who . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 2021

Wondrous and Silly

by Margaret E. Perry

On a bright day in early autumn, I found myself sitting on the floor of my favorite bookstore with a pile of picture books two feet . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2009