The Book Case
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.
Episodes
July 10, 2025 • 33 mins
Sophie Elmhirst has done something extraordinary. In her new book, Marriage at Sea, she rediscovers and adds new mystery to the true story of Maurice and Maralyn Bailey, who, on their journey across the world, lost their boat and were forced to live on a life raft for 117 days. How did they do it? How did they FEEL about doing it? Sophie, in her impeccably researched volume, has brought readers a nail-biting thriller while also...
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July 3, 2025 • 37 mins
It’s been a while since we have covered a good mystery on the Book Case, so this week, take a seat by a book that will keep you guessing. Death at the White Hart by Chris Chibnall is both a terrific old-fashioned mystery combined with a modern police procedural drama and EVERYONE in the town is a suspect. Kate read it in 36 hours, Charlie in about 48…we guarantee this will be one you can’t put down. Join us and find out why.
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June 26, 2025 • 38 mins
It’s the third in our classics analysis series! To Kill a Mockingbird is one of America’s favorite novels. Is it worth its weight in the public’s love? Is Atticus Finch the hero we always thought, and does Go Set a Watchman call the novel’s moralism into question? We examine these questions with two Harper Lee scholars, Michele Reutter and Jonathan S. Cullick, who wrote Mockingbird Grows Up, a re-examination of Mockingbird thro...
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June 19, 2025 • 42 mins
We have been skimping on including independent booksellers in our show lately (and we are sorry) but here is a whole show worth of bookseller conversations! Source Books in Detroit Michigan is owned by Janet Webster Jones. And Print: A Bookstore in Portland ME is owned by Emily Russo. These are two incredible independent booksellers with two incredible stores. It’s a master class in bookselling on this week’s Book Case!
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June 12, 2025 • 41 mins
Jess Walter has written a book that is funny, compulsively readable, and complex. In So Far Gone, he reminds us, in a world that sometimes seems to have gone crazy, you escape society at your own peril. Can you escape the world into isolation or is life only meaningful when you live it for and with others? We ask the very talented Jess Walter that very question.
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June 5, 2025 • 34 mins
Andrew Porter’s newest, The Imagined Life, is a beautiful and atmospheric novel following a man on a search for his father, who disappeared decades ago. Tangled up in the complications of academia, the issues of exploring sexuality, and the haunting visions of the inappropriate parties his parents threw in his backyard, Stephen struggles to piece together the answers he needs so that he can create the life he wants. This novel is...
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May 29, 2025 • 37 mins
Another installment of our Writer in Residence series, and J. Ryan Stradal is two chapters away from the end! How did he get here? What are his goals as he finishes his latest and most personal book? We find out with great excitement. We also talk to Nefer Book Café owner, Lonna Dawson, who will inspire you to expand your reading horizons. Join us.
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May 22, 2025 • 39 mins
Dave Barry is one of the funniest writers alive, and he makes it look so easy. How and why does he do it? Enter Class Clown: The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass, his first and probably only memoir which is packed full of laugh out loud moments. It’s also peppered with thoughts on how he got through college, memories of his mother and father, his thoughts on life, people that hate him and where he comes up with his wacky ideas....
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May 15, 2025 • 42 mins
Richard Russo is an American treasure. The writer of so many great novels (Empire Falls, Straight Man), we strongly encourage you to read his newest, Life and Art, which is a collection of essays. We know that so many people say, ESSAYS? Yes, essays, and they are spectacular. These are not arguments shoved in your face. These are thoughtful life reflections from one of the great writers of our time, and they should be savored ...
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May 8, 2025 • 34 mins
Jemimah Wei’s The Original Daughter is the GMA book club pick for May, and we loved it. In some ways, this book is not just a compelling family drama, but it is also a thoughtful depiction of Singapore, a country often misunderstood by Americans as being simply a home for glamour and high tech discovery. This novel centers around the lives of everyday Singaporeans, and how one family is torn apart when a new daughter is introduce...
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May 1, 2025 • 38 mins
We loved talking to David K. Shipler so much that we wanted to squeeze one more show out of our conversation. We talked so much on our last episode about the role of interpreters in journalism, but we also talked about going from fiction to nonfiction and the importance of good journalism, now more than ever. We hope you enjoy as much as we did.
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April 24, 2025 • 35 mins
The Interpreter is a beautiful book about the end of the war in Vietnam and one interpreter’s story as his country is torn apart and remade over and over throughout his lifetime. David K. Shipler is arguably one of the greatest journalists of our time. A veteran reporter who wrote about Russia, Vietnam, and Israel (to name a few), he has a Pulitzer to his name and his non-fiction books are legendary. I mean, the man ran a foreig...
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April 17, 2025 • 38 mins
If you are a devoted GMA watcher (and you should be), you know that about a month ago we sat down with the great Irish native writing couple of Niall Williams and Christine Breen. What an amazing twosome they make, and we can’t get enough of talking to them. So we offer you the extended Niall Williams and Christine Breen interview. It was such fun to discuss why Ireland was vital to their writing careers and how they came into t...
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April 10, 2025 • 37 mins
Harlan Coben has authored close to 40 books with some seriously good writing. His
latest, Nobody’s Fool, takes a detective from an already existing book and TV
series, blows up their story and creates mysteries within mysteries. Great plot twists, memorable characters and page turning action are all here…how does he turn great books out over and over? Tune in and find out.
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April 3, 2025 • 31 mins
It’s a two for one show and do bear with us, because it’s two books we loved, AND you get two authors in one podcast. One book is a darkly comic novel, All the Other Mothers Hate Me by Sarah Harman, and the other is Homestand, which is a wonderful nonfiction read about the loss
of minor league baseball in small town America by Will Bardenwerper. Please tune in, because we believe that spring is in the air and these two great summ...
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March 27, 2025 • 33 mins
Colum McCann’s newest, Twist, explores how the world of underwater fiber cables has vital physical and metaphoric meaning in our day to day lives. Sound dull? We promise you, it’s a literary marvel and a page turner to boot. The men and women who live to make, repair and find these cables are fascinating characters. And Twist is a beautiful novel all about how we can tear ourselves apart as we obsess about reparation and healin...
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March 20, 2025 • 36 mins
Kaveh Akbar and Tommy Orange are a writer’s circle of two. We can’t remember how we first heard they were close friends, but we knew it when we interviewed them and were thrilled when we heard they might be touring together. Tune in to find out how these two amazing authors encourage and challenge each other.
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March 13, 2025 • 40 mins
We love short story collections. We hope this doesn’t put us in the minority, because when authors do it well the books can be transcendent. Case in point, Curtis Sittenfeld’s latest is Show Don’t Tell. We didn’t find one story in there we didn’t like. Each feels like a breath of fresh aired emotional honesty, a glimpse into the lives of memorable characters at various turning points questioning their own choices. Join us to fi...
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March 6, 2025 • 46 mins
There is no greater classic in Kate’s mind than The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. So when our audiences liked our holiday revisit of the Christmas Carol, we knew Gatsby had to be next. Join us as we sit down with two of the country’s greatest Gatsby and Fitzgerald scholars. Find out why the book is still so studied, so beloved, and still so relevant to our lives.
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February 27, 2025 • 36 mins
Geraldine Brooks' latest, Memorial Days, is a deeply personal memoir about the sudden loss of her husband Tony Horowitz. In this beautiful and deeply felt book, Geraldine remembers her husband and honors his legacy and their love. She walks us through the days after his death while simultaneously also taking us through her mourning process. Find out why Memorial Days was important to her survival, and how writing the book helped he...
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