Stephen Presents: Late Show Book Club | Daniel Kehlmann
The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert
CBS
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 1:05.4 | Hi, Becca. Hi, Stephen. And hello audience. This is Stephen Colbert with The Late Show Pacho. |
| 1:10.1 | Thanks for listening to The Pod Show. We got something special for you today. We have the book club, the late show book club. Oh, fantastic. We have the latest interview with the August book pick. This is Daniel Kelman with the director, his novel, The Director. It's historical fiction. And the voice that you're going to hear in this lovely |
| 1:28.7 | interview is Allie Jaffe Ramos. And you want to tell people about the Leachio Book Club, how it came to be? Aletio Book Club, well, I mean, came to be because Ali said, why don't we have a book club? I think that's how it came about. Yes. And I said, sure, that sounds great. Does that involve more work from me? And she goes, it doesn't. |
| 1:43.1 | I go, I love it. |
| 1:44.3 | Go for it, girl. |
| 1:45.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:46.0 | Allie's the most lovely person. |
| 1:47.6 | She is. |
| 1:48.0 | She's wonderful. that sounds great. Does that involve more work from me? And she goes, it doesn't. I go, I love it. |
| 2:00.4 | 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. Always bragging. I know how to read. Yeah, I know. Literacy. But she's great. And you're going to hear her voice. She's a segment producer on the show. |
| 2:00.8 | Yeah. |
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