Jason Reynolds on Music, Reading and Writing
The Book Case
ABC News
4.7 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:29.8 | Welcome to the bookcase. |
| 0:31.2 | I am the Kate part of the duo that hosts the show. |
| 0:35.6 | Well, we're a duet. |
| 0:37.8 | And I'm Charlie Gibson. And it's in the bookcase with Kate and Charlie, as we hope. |
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| 0:45.0 | I just heard the bookcase with Kate and Charlie, and it was another wonderful show, and you should be listening. |
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| 0:56.9 | I don't know what parting gift. We'll send you a take-home version of our podcast. |
| 1:02.3 | You've heard the show, play the game. |
| 1:05.3 | Exactly. We don't do a lot of YA and young people's literature. We don don't because honestly, we don't read a ton of it. |
| 1:13.6 | But there is one great Y.A. author that I have always loved and followed, and his name is |
| 1:19.6 | Jason Reynolds. And his new book, and we'll explain what we mean by new in a minute, because it's |
| 1:25.4 | sort of in quotation marks, is called soundtrack. |
| 1:29.0 | And when it was sent to me, I tore through it as I tear through a lot of Jason Reynolds. |
| 1:34.0 | He's most famously known for Ghost and the Track and Running series that he did, which is also incredibly good. |
| 1:40.4 | He's very talented. And so I was really excited to love this book and to speak with him. |
| 1:45.8 | Well, he's very prolific, as you mentioned. And this book is actually something that he wrote years ago, |
| 1:50.2 | got out of the dusty archives and is being published now, just now, called Soundtrack, as Kate mentioned, |
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