Hey y'all, you might remember a couple weeks ago we shared a special preview of a

podcast I've really been enjoying lately called Talk Easy. On Talk Easy, the host

Sam Fragoso explores questions big and small through dialogues that are driven by curiosity,

compassion, and an abundance of research, which you know we at Book Riot love an abundance of research.

Each Sunday Sam invites an actor, writer, activist, or musician

to come to the table and speak from the heart in ways that you probably haven't heard them do before.

Recently in our feed here you heard Sam chatting with best-selling author Michael Lewis

about his 2021 book The Premonition which was the story of a group of medics and

scientist who attempted to get the US government to take the pandemic response seriously.

If you haven't heard that yet, be sure to go back and check out that clip.

And then come back here for another preview of Talk Easy, this time with Pulitzer Prize

winning author Jennifer Egan. You may know her from books like a visit from

the Goon Squad, Manhattan Beach, or because Jeff and I book clubbed our way through her newest novel,

The Candy House, last month. In this preview that you're about to hear, Egan discusses the structural pulse of the candy house, why she's drawn to non-linear storytelling, and what the book reveals about authenticity in the digital age. We hope you'll enjoy the conversation as much as we did.

This episode is sponsored by Underlined, publishers of The Night in Question by Kathleen Glasgow and Liz Lawson.

If you know me, you know I'm a huge Agatha Christie fan.

I have been reading her since I was an actual child and reread her at least a few times

every year, so I'm so excited that this sequel is out

because it's reminding me about the original

that I've been meeting to read for quite some time.

And now I can read both back to back.

So how do you solve a murder? You follow the lessons of the master, of course, Agatha Christie.

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