Bookish Flights: Books, Author Interviews & Must-Read Recommendations

Sheila Hamilton and Kara Infante spend the episode on loving someone through mental illness, and the conversation stays measured, candid, and grounded.

Katherine Scott Crawford’s conversation with Kara Infante lands on historical fiction as an immersive read and on the shifting work of writing itself.

Joan Fernandez gives Jo van Gogh a clear, humane shape, treating her less as a footnote than as the widow and mother who kept Vincent's legacy moving.

The episode leans into a secret-society setup built around people on the outside looking in. Kara frames Karen Nguyen's novel through Taylor, who comes to Boston from the Outer Banks, feels the distance between herself and wealth, and gets drawn toward the Knox Society after…

This is a warm, grounded conversation about Track of Courage, the research behind it, and the habits that let Susan May Warren keep writing. Kara keeps the focus on process, and Warren makes that process feel lived in instead of polished from a distance.

Sammy Young's conversation with Kara Infante keeps its focus on a simple problem: how to make the next read easier to find. It moves through genre-hopping, a genre-sorted roadmap, and the appeal of a little free library without losing its relaxed, bookish tone.

Matthew G. Mattson's conversation with Kara stays close to lived faith instead of drifting into abstraction. It moves from his work as a writer, speaker, and spiritual leader into the more personal question of what lasts, especially with his comment that the book was written for…

Kara and Katie Burnett spend most of the episode in the space between Little Women and Beth Is Dead, and that mix gives the conversation its shape.