Book Dreams

Book Dreams

Book Dreams is a podcast for everyone who loves books and misses English class. In each episode co-hosts Julie Sternberg and Eve Yohalem explore a book-related topic they can’t stop thinking about, everything from the genius of your favorite picture books to books bound in human skin. Julie and Eve are both award-winning authors, which allows them to come at interviews with an insider’s knowledge as well as all the wonder associated with storytelling. Book Dreams is brought to you by The Podglomerate and is a member of Lit Hub Radio. New episodes run every Thursday. Find Book Dreams on Twitter (@bookdreamspod) and Instagram (@bookdreamspodcast), or email contact@bookdreamspodcast.com. Visit our website and sign up for our newsletter for information about our episodes, guests, and more.

Episodes

Ep. 3 - The News We've Been Waiting For!

October 1, 2025 • 20 mins
We're finally able to tell you our grand opening date! (Spoiler alert: It's October 25. Come visit!) Press play to hear what we've been doing to get everything ready for you. We talk, too, about the upcoming movies and shows based on books that we're excited about, and we play a game where we each come up with the weirdest possible book pairings and then challenge the other person to figure out how to connect them. Is this game wor...
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Ep. 2 - Updates and Book Recs

September 8, 2025 • 26 mins
The store is almost ready! We're just waiting (and waiting and waiting) on a new entrance before we can start putting books on the shelves. Find out our latest news, victories, and frustrations and hear about what we're reading now and what we're excited to read next. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Ep. 1 - We're Opening a Bookstore!

August 28, 2025 • 26 mins
We (authors Eve Yohalem and Julie Sternberg) are opening a bookstore called Books & Cake in Hillsdale, New York! Renovations are underway--take a listen to hear how they're going; how we decided to take this step together; what's surprised us along the way; our unusual plan for organizing the books in the store; a few book recommendations; and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Bonus Ep. 143 - Julie & Eve Have Big News!

August 28, 2025 • 4 mins
Julie and Eve have big news! Find us on⁠ ⁠⁠Instagram (@bookdreamspodcast)⁠, or email us at ⁠contact@bookdreamspodcast.com⁠. We encourage you to visit our ⁠website⁠⁠ for information about our episodes, guests, and more. Book Dreams is a part of ⁠Lit Hub Radio⁠ and the ⁠Podglomerate network⁠, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our ⁠P...
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Bonus Ep. 142 - I’m Sorry I Did This to You, with Eve and Julie

April 26, 2024 • 19 mins
Why, oh why, does Eve make Julie take on questions that no person on the planet wants to be forced to think through out loud on air? (Three guesses who wrote this description.) The question this time: Is there free will? Julie's answer: ....  Never mind. Skip Julie's answer and go straight to Eve's discussion of what professor of biology and neuroscience Robert Sapolsky has to say on the topic in his latest book, Determined, A Life...
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Bonus Ep. 141 - When One Book Leads to Another, with Eve and Julie

January 18, 2024 • 17 mins
Our theme for this episode is book connections—times when one book leads us to thoughts of another or inspires us to read further. It’s one of our very favorite aspects of reading: escaping into the world of one book, then tying it together with the world of another. Eve talks about two pairs of books—one of her all-time favorites, one a new discovery, and two that are “absolutely delicious”—all connected by a common theme, and, de...
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Bonus Ep. 140 - Roz Chast!

December 21, 2023 • 33 mins
It's been a long time since you've seen an author interview here on Book Dreams, but we were recently given the chance to interview Roz Chast, and who could possibly say no to that?! Roz is a beloved New Yorker cartoonist with a style all her own, and Eve and Julie have both been big fans of her work for decades. She is as funny, insightful, and distinctive in person as she is in her drawings, and it was a joy to get to speak with ...
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Bonus Ep. 139 - The Stephen King Novel That (Almost) Drove Us Apart, with Eve and Julie

October 12, 2023 • 13 mins
“This is so bad that I feel like I'm in a Stephen King novel where there's just one thing off about my familiar world, but that one thing is a living nightmare.” In a Book Dreams first, Eve and Julie disagree wildly about a book. Can they resolve their differences? Find out in this episode where they talk about books they’ve both read, with the exception of one novella that Julie says is “definitely going to be one of my favorite b...
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Bonus Ep. 138 - One Great Read After the Other, with Eve and Julie

August 11, 2023 • 18 mins
Eve read so much during the weeks since our last episode, she gave herself a repetitive reading injury. But it was worth it! In this episode she shares thoughts about books with mesmerizing voice, memorable characters, sweeping scope, and poetic brilliance. Meanwhile, Julie--who has managed thus far to avoid reading-related injury--talks about a critically acclaimed novel set in Berlin around the time of the fall of the wall, and a...
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Bonus Ep. 137 - Talking Books to Honor the Legacy of a Constant Reader, Eve’s Dad, with Eve and Julie

July 6, 2023 • 13 mins
What have Julie and Eve been reading lately? Find out in this new bonus episode, in which Eve talks about the legacy of her dad, a constant reader, the brilliance of Helen Dewitt (again), the searing poetry of Louise Glück, and a light and highly readable beach read. Meanwhile, Julie’s been pursuing a reading vision, discovering the propulsive, mind-expanding books—and book recommendations—of S. A. Cosby. Find us on Twitter (@book...
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Bonus Ep. 136 - What We’ve Read and Loved Lately, with Eve and Julie

May 25, 2023 • 21 mins
What have Julie and Eve been reading lately? Find out in this new bonus episode where we talk about loving old favorites even more the second time around, lessons Julie gleaned from a book about life in a picturesque German village during the Nazi regime, discovering an author whose novel is “dazzling,” and the joy and abundant rewards of overcoming a fear of poetry. Find us on Twitter (@bookdreamspod) and Instagram (@bookdreamspo...
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Bonus Ep. 135 - Good Books for Bad Times, with Eve & Julie

April 6, 2023 • 18 mins
We’ve all been there: one of those tough times in life when it’s hard to get your mind to settle enough to escape into a good book. Yet that’s when we need books more than ever. Eve and Julie have both been going through rough patches recently. Here are the books that have been helping. Find us on Twitter (@bookdreamspod) and Instagram (@bookdreamspodcast), or email us at contact@bookdreamspodcast.com. We encourage you to visit o...
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Ep. 134 - The Most Personalized Book Subscription Service in the World, with James Gilbert

February 23, 2023 • 30 mins
Welcome to our last regularly scheduled episode of Book Dreams. We started the podcast because books, more than just about anything, bring us joy. So we thought, what better way to end the podcast than to spread that joy and talk about how to make great book recommendations for other people? Our guest, James Gilbert, is a bookseller at the Heywood Hill bookstore in London, which runs, in its words, “the most personalized book subsc...
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Ep. 133 - Fire Island: A Century in the Life of a Queer, Literary Paradise, with Jack Parlett

February 9, 2023 • 30 mins
In this episode, Book Dreams producer and guest host Gianfranco Lentini takes us on a journey to a real-life literary paradise—a thin barrier island just 50 miles east of New York City—that has been a haven for authors, especially queer authors, for more than a century. Author and scholar Jack Parlett joins Gianfranco to discuss the subject of Jack’s latest book, Fire Island: A Century in the Life of an American Paradise. They talk...
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Ep. 132 - How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water, with Angie Cruz

January 26, 2023 • 23 mins
In this episode, we talk to author Angie Cruz, whose latest novel is the widely acclaimed How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water. This irresistible book inspired a conversation about a myriad of topics: how the unconscious mind influences the creative process, the lengths women will go to escape a dangerous situation, invisible labor as it pertains to women–especially immigrant women. Friendship, partnership, motherhood, and more. Ta...
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Ep. 131 - Keeping Family Secrets, with Margaret K. Nelson

January 12, 2023 • 23 mins
What do family secrets show us about the times we live in, and how do they impact the people who safeguard them? These are questions that sociologist Margaret K. Nelson explores in her most recent book, Keeping Family Secrets, a study of more than 150 memoirs involving families hiding something of consequence during the 1950s. In this episode of Book Dreams, we talk to Margaret about a host of fascinating topics, everything from ho...
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Ep. 130 - Our 2022 End-of-Year Holiday Extravaganza!

December 29, 2022 • 43 mins
Welcome to our 2022 end-of-year holiday extravaganza! In the spirit of holiday giving, we have a present for you, which, if we’re being honest, is also a present for us: BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS. Two dozen of them, in fact! At the end of almost all the interviews we conducted this year, we asked our guests, “What’s one book you love and why do you love it?” We held back the recordings of their answers so we could share them with you n...
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Ep. 129 - The Science Behind Heartbreak, with Florence Williams

December 15, 2022 • 30 mins
Why, exactly, do we feel so shattered when someone we love leaves us? What is the science behind the physical changes we experience during heartbreak, such as weight loss and anxiety, and why do so many of us stop behaving rationally? In this episode of Book Dreams, we talk with acclaimed science writer Florence Williams about her latest book, Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey, in which she explores questions like these...
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Ep. 128 - A Feminist Retelling of the Ramayana, with Vaishnavi Patel

December 1, 2022 • 29 mins
What is it like to create a modern, feminist retelling of an ancient, foundational text? Vaishnavi Patel–author of the instant New York Times bestselling novel Kaikeyi, a reimagining of the Hindu epic the Ramayana–paints a vivid picture in this episode of Book Dreams. Vaishnavi’s novel “tells the story of the evil stepmother character [Kaikeyi], who sets off the whole epic by exiling Rama, and then just sort of disappears. [The nov...
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Ep. 127 - Constructing a Nervous System, with Margo Jefferson

November 17, 2022 • 33 mins
What are the raw materials of our lives? Who are the authors, the singers and songwriters, the actors and artists whose work resonates with each of us and makes us who we are? It’s a question that is brilliantly and masterfully explored by arts critic Margo Jefferson in her new memoir, Constructing a Nervous System, in which she weaves her personal history with those of the artists who are part of her “nervous system,” setting it a...
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