The Booker Prize is awarded each year to the best work of sustained fiction in the English language. In other words, it doesn’t get any more prestigious than the Booker. And we are honored this week to have Samantha Harvey who wrote the 2024 Booker winner entitled “Orbital”. When you read her beautiful prose, you’ll know why she won. And when you liste ... Show More
Yesterday
Ashley Kahn and the Wonder of Paul Simon’s Graceland
Graceland, by the great Paul Simon, was always a big deal in our house. From the Boy in the Bubble to the Myth of Fingerprints, it was on almost constant repeat, the soundtrack of my childhood. Ashley Kahn’s book, Days of Miracle and Wonder, is a thorough, beautifully researched ... Show More
35m 3s
Aug 20
Jennifer McMahon and the Allure of Haunted Towns
Jennifer McMahon has been called the Shirley Jackson of her generation. Her newest, Stay Buried, is a fascinating look at what can happen to a small town when beset with an almost inhuman pandemic, and how they turn on each other as the diseases claims victim after victim (sound ... Show More
30m 43s
Feb 2025
Book Club: Let's Talk About "Orbital," by Samantha Harvey
<p>Samantha Harvey’s novel “Orbital,” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/arts/booker-prize-winner-orbital-samantha-harvey.html" target="_blank">which won the Booker Prize</a> last year, has a tight, poetic frame: We follow one day in the lives of six people working on a ... Show More
41m 51s
Jun 2025
Stephen Presents: Late Show Book Club | 'Orbital'
Late Show Book Club chats with Samantha Harvey, author of the Booker Prize-winning novel, "Orbital," our June book club pick. Find out which book Harvey would take into space with her, the significance of the International Space Station being deorbited in 2030, and her advice for ... Show More
11m 31s
Oct 2022
The Booker Prize for Fiction 2022
The live ceremony for the 2022 Booker Prize for Fiction, hosted by Samira Ahmed. The winner of the £50,000 prize will be announced by the chair of judges Neil MacGregor in the presence of Her Majesty The Queen Consort, who will award the trophy. The author Elif Shafak reflects on ... Show More
42m 6s