We all know that Rebecca Yarros is one of our most popular authors at the library. During the National Book Festival she sat down with Emily Kwong from NPR for an interview.
19 minutes of this longer conversation was posted as part of the NPR's Book of the Day Podcast. You can listen to it here.
This specific audio is a MUST listen. To hear Yarros talk about the appeal of her books and the genre blend that she helped make its own genre juggernaut is fascinating and necessary.
In need of a good read? Or just want to keep up with the books everyone's talking about? NPR's Book of the Day gives you today's very best writing in a snackable, skimmable, pocket-sized podcast. Whether you're looking to engage with the big questions of our times – or temporarily escape from them – we've got an author who will speak to you, all genres, mood and writing styles included. Catch today's great books in 15 minutes or less.
Notice I said subscribe. Not listen. I subscribe to NPR's Book of the Day podcast mostly to see what books they are highlighting. I see it in my feed and I know it is a book important enough to make sure I know about it. This podcast takes book conversations from across all of their shows and plops them in the feed. So you can catch discussions and books you might have missed otherwise.
At least where I live, the NPR audience and the public library users have a huge overlap. Back when I started at the turn of the Century, people would come in all the time to ask for a book they heard about. They couldn't remember much, but we quickly learned that there was a VERY good chance they heard about it on NPR. So we started asking directly, did they hear about in on the radio? What time were you in the car? And then we'd try to track down which show it was on and figure it out from there.
This was early 2000s. Some of the bigger shows (like Fresh Air) had webpages with their guests listed, but some of the local shows did not. We often called WBEZ to ask what books were mentioned on a show at a certain time. They would help. They got used to us calling and I like to think we helped them get that info on a webpage sooner.
Back to the subscribing. I do listen to many of the episodes, but you don't need to. Seeing the book and the description is often enough to use it as a resource.
I hope you consider subscribing to stay in the know as to what books NPR wants its listners to know about. It will help you anticipate demand and allow you to prepare readalikes and displays as well.
But right now, go listen to Rebecca Yarros specifically. Everyone who works at a public library in America has something to learn from this conversation.
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