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Books & Looks Podcast — The 1909 Race Henry Ford Cheated to Win – Eric Moskowitz on “The Hardest, Longest Race”

Books & Looks: Real Books for Real Readers was started as a literary podcast to supplement Blaine Desantis’ website, ViewsOnBooks.com, and expand into audio and video interviews with authors. With Books & Looks, Blaine’s goal is to focus on real books that real people will read. At least half of the books he…

BookTribMay 21, 2026

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Looksmaxxing? More Like Booksmaxxing: Trending Titles To Enhance Your Reading

Looksmaxxing might be all the rage, but what about booksmaxxing? If you've somehow missed the discourse about this extreme new trend, let us introduce you to looksmaxxing — defined by Wikipedia (yes, it has a Wiki page) as "the process of maximizing one's physical attractiveness." But instead of advice for…

BookTribMay 12, 2026

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Writers, Ink Podcast: The Case of the Mysterious Chewed Pen Cap With Shannon Chakraborty

BookTrib is proud to present to our readers the Writers, Ink podcast, a show about the business of writing. J.K. Rowling was nearly homeless when she wrote the first Harry Potter book. Stephen King penned Carrie on a small desk wedged between a washer and dryer. James Patterson worked in advertising and…

BookTribMay 19, 2026

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Book Your Trip to These Storied Destinations

Dearest Curious Reader, This week, we reflected on how reading feels like being transported to another destination, whether to a real-life location or to another place and time. After all, books do more than make us think and feel new things. They help us go places outside of our ordinary…

Meryl L. MossMay 16, 2026

Fiction Miscellany

What Makes Readers Believe Unreliable Narrators

You know a narrator is lying. The story makes that clear. The details don’t line up. The tone shifts. Something feels off. And you keep believing them anyway. Not because you’re convinced, but because the story gives you just enough to stay. Readers don’t need a narrator to be truthful.…

Dan UseltonMay 15, 2026

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Our Exclusive Met Gala “Lookbook”

My Art-Loving Beauty-Seeking Readers, It was a big week for fashion as well as publishing: the Met Gala turned the red carpet into a spectacle with its “Fashion Is Art” dress code, and Pulitzer Prize winners were announced along with major new releases, so our team did the only reasonable…

Meryl L. MossMay 8, 2026

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Pairing Your Favorite Quote From “The Devil Wears Prada” With Your Next Great Read

The most stylish books of the season, just in time for The Devil Wears Prada 2 👠 From Meryl Streep’s brilliant performance as Miranda Priestly to Anne Hathaway rocking those Chanel boots, there’s a reason the original film persists in our collective memory. And with so many iconic quotes to…

BookTribApril 30, 2026

Miscellany Podcasts

Writers, Ink Podcast: Fan Writing with Chris M. Barkley

BookTrib is proud to present to our readers the Writers, Ink podcast, a show about the business of writing. J.K. Rowling was nearly homeless when she wrote the first Harry Potter book. Stephen King penned Carrie on a small desk wedged between a washer and dryer. James Patterson worked in advertising and…

BookTribMay 12, 2026

Fiction Miscellany

The Permanence of Memory in Novels

In his novel In a Strange Room, the South African Booker Prize winner Damon Galgut, wrote, “a journey is a gesture inscribed in space, it vanishes even as it’s made… the very air closes behind you like water and soon your presence, which felt so weighty and permanent, has completely…

Aga MaksimowskaMay 11, 2026

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Somewhere Between the Pitt and Deciding Whether or Not to Be Child Free

If there is one thing The Pitt on HBO can be universally lauded for, it is its’ strikingly realistic portrayal of physicians in the Emergency Department at all levels, so much so that is often difficult for those who have lived that experience to watch it at times. For this…

Ava RaniMay 12, 2026

Miscellany Potpourri

Real Intelligence

The 1976 album titled Boston by the band with the same name resonated with me; the lyrics took me to a place my narrow life lacked; the music energized my young soul. I was hooked; I still am. In my pre-teen days, my parents’ record player was the only way…

Michael WestMay 8, 2026

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Love These 2026 Met Gala Looks? We Have the Book Recs to Match

There's no time that makes the cultural ubiquity of the celebrity more obvious than the night of the Met Gala. And listen — do we have criticisms of these blatant displays of wealth during a time of economic uncertainty? Yes. Are we entertained and dazzled by the glamour of the…

BookTribMay 5, 2026

Fiction Miscellany Popular

A Speculative Tale That Asks Us to Sit With Uneasy Truths

Aries season asked us to burn. To move fast, act first and trust the fire. Taurus season asks something different — and perhaps harder. It asks us to slow down, sink into the earth beneath our feet and sit with what is real. Richard Powers' Playground — recently released in…

Lillian ParrottaMay 6, 2026

Fiction Miscellany

How Perfume and Heritage Inspired “The Library of Flowers”

Lucy Hua comes from a long line of Chinese perfumers gifted with the secret power to sway emotion with their perfumes. In every fifth generation, an eldest daughter is born with the rarest gift of all: the ability to summon true love. However, when Lucy, the long-awaited fifth daughter, fails,…

L.C. ChuMay 5, 2026

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Writers, Ink Podcast: Finding Readers Who Will Love Your Book, with Dominique Raccah

BookTrib is proud to present to our readers the Writers, Ink podcast, a show about the business of writing. J.K. Rowling was nearly homeless when she wrote the first Harry Potter book. Stephen King penned Carrie on a small desk wedged between a washer and dryer. James Patterson worked in advertising and…

BookTribMay 5, 2026

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What Inspired “The Instigators: How Black Women Have Been Essential to American Democracy (And What We Can Learn from Them)”

As people look for guidance and strategy while democracy is eroding, look no further than the Black women political organizers, journalists, movement leaders and elected officials I feature in my book, whom I call "The Instigators." Oftentimes much is said about the ability of women to change the world, so…

Atima OmaraMay 5, 2026

Books & Looks Podcast — The 1909 Race Henry Ford Cheated to Win – Eric Moskowitz on “The Hardest, Longest Race”

Writers, Ink Podcast: The Case of the Mysterious Chewed Pen Cap With Shannon Chakraborty

What Makes Readers Believe Unreliable Narrators

Pairing Your Favorite Quote From “The Devil Wears Prada” With Your Next Great Read

Writers, Ink Podcast: Fan Writing with Chris M. Barkley

The Permanence of Memory in Novels

Somewhere Between the Pitt and Deciding Whether or Not to Be Child Free

Real Intelligence

Love These 2026 Met Gala Looks? We Have the Book Recs to Match

How Perfume and Heritage Inspired “The Library of Flowers”

Writers, Ink Podcast: Finding Readers Who Will Love Your Book, with Dominique Raccah

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