Stephen Presents: Late Show Book Club | Daniel Kehlmann

The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

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🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Late Show Book Club chats with Daniel Kehlmann, author of the novel, “The Director,” our July book club pick. Find out why Daniel thinks art is the truest resistance to tyranny, his all-time favorite novel, and his advice for aspiring writers. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, Becca.
0:06.2	And hello audience. This is Stephen Colbert with The Late Show Pod Show.
0:09.9	Thanks for listening to The Pod Show. We got something special for you today.
0:12.9	We have the book club, the Late Show book club.
0:15.3	Oh, fantastic.
0:16.0	We have the latest interview with the August book pick. This is Daniel Kelman with the director, his novel, The
0:23.4	Director. It's historical fiction. And the voice that you're going to hear in this lovely
0:28.5	interview is Ali Jaffe Ramos. And you want to tell people about the Late Show Book Club,
0:32.8	how it came to be? Aletio Book Club, well, I mean, it came to be because Ali said, why don't we have
0:36.6	a book club? I think that's how it came about.
0:38.5	Yes.
0:39.1	And I said, sure, that sounds great.
0:40.3	Does that involve more work from me?
0:42.2	And she goes, it doesn't.
0:42.9	I go, I love it. Go for it, girl. Yeah, Alice's the most lovely person. She is. She's wonderful. She loves to read, has great book wrecks all the time, and every month...
0:37.8	Always bragging. I know how to read.
0:39.3	Yeah, I know. Literacy.
0:40.9	But she's great, and you're going to hear her... has great book wrecks all the time. And every month... Always bragging. I know how to read.
0:54.4	Yeah, I know.
0:55.2	Literacy.
0:56.0	But she's great, and you're going to hear her voice.
0:58.8	She's a segment producer on the show.
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