Episodes: 25
Frequency: Weekly
Rating: 4.7/5.0
Estimated listeners: 100 - 1,000
Listener location: USA
YouTube: 5 subscribers
Instagram: 37.0k followers
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Brian Larson - Podcast host and interviewer focused on books, authors, creativity, and the personal questions explored through literature.
Ryan Doherty - Acquiring The Secret Dinner At Auction, Working With The Manuscript And Translator, And Bringing Raphael Montes To A New Audience.
Raphael Montes - The Secret Dinner, Rio De Janeiro, Morally Complex Characters, Addiction, Recovery, Appetite, And Dark Humor.
André Aciman - Returning To Elio And Oliver, Adapting Prose Into Graphic Form, Desire, Memory, Love, And Emotional Vulnerability.
Richard Russo - Under The Falls, Adapting A Television Pilot Into A Novel, Hometowns, Economic Decline, The Opioid Epidemic, Moral Ambiguity, And Thriller Writing.
Ben Reeves - Writing About Death With Tenderness, Grief, Addiction, Sobriety, Sexuality, Parenthood, And The Significance Of Ordinary Moments.
TJ Klune on “We Burned So Bright,” Queer Love & His New Book, "The Stars Look Like Home"
October 13, 2026
#1 New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune joins Brian Larson on Shelf Care Society for a wide-ranging conversation about love, mortality, queer storytelling, and the books that stay with us.TJ takes us inside “We Burned So Bright,” his moving novel about an older queer couple facing the end of the world, and the questions at its heart: How do we make a life matter? What do we owe the people we love? And when time is running out, what is actually worth holding onto?They also talk about rev...
What should be on your reading radar as we head into the final stretch of 2026?
September 30, 2026
In this episode of Shelf Care Society, I’m talking through some of the books I can’t stop thinking about, from major new novels by Min Jin Lee, Barbara Kingsolver, Hernan Diaz, and V. E. Schwab to Robert Kolker’s extraordinary reporting on a family confronting inherited dementia and Ted Scheinman’s deeply personal account of electroconvulsive therapy.And about halfway through the episode, we take a detour: I sit down with comedian Taylor Tomlinson on the eve of the launch of her first book, “...
Kathryn Stockett on “The Calamity Club,” 17 Years After “The Help”
September 21, 2026
Seventeen years after “The Help” became a publishing phenomenon, Kathryn Stockett is back with “The Calamity Club,” her sprawling, funny, devastating new novel and a #1 New York Times bestseller.Kathryn joins Brian to talk about what really happened during those 17 years, including false starts, losing her publishing home, finding the editor who helped her see the book clearly again, and the moment she discovered the disturbing history that ultimately became one of the novel’s driving forces....
The Author's Voice with KAJ · Low booking difficulty · 100 - 1,000 listeners
The Premise · Medium booking difficulty · 100 - 1,000 listeners
The Thoughtful Bro · Medium booking difficulty · 100 - 1,000 listeners
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