Have you been wondering about that whole "trad wife" thing? You should read "Yesteryear." Maybe Hannah's favorite book of the year so far?

Just a reminder that @libro.fm is awesome. Just got a new sign-up for our Shop and this is what they bought right out of the gate. Very on-brand for us.

Recorded EP13 this morning. Better make sure you're caught up.

(Actually, it doesn't matter what episode you listen to in which order.)

We are amused that someone clearly listened to this pod and then bought the American Fantasy audiobook like five minutes later. Good job making up your own mind, person!

at the Babylon Street Shelter, down by the river A Poem by Matthew E. Henry

"at the Babylon Street Shelter, down by the river" ~ a poem from PROMIES TO KEEP

BREAKING: Police immediately begin wrongful arrests as over 500 people defy the unlawful ban on Palestine Action.

Protestors are being arrested under the Terrorism Act for holding signs which say "I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action".

Past two weeks have been the most downloaded in the history of any of our podcasts. Just saying!

EP12: Making Choices, Good and Bad Podcast Episode · Four Books a Fortnight · April 9 · 33m

“You are a middle-aged woman—did this ring authentic to you???”

If this is the sort of straight talk you want from your book podcasts, may I recommend Four Books a Fortnight from @hhharlow.bsky.social, @sampfeifle.bsky.social & @bfbookshop.bsky.social? So fun! 📚💯🙌
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FIVE O. Henry awards. 20 novels. 11 short-story collections.

8 of those novels came AFTER his induction into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, in 2009.

His new book is very much worth your time.

Also: Is TC Boyle shamefully underrated by the current literary world? The man is 77 years old and still releasing works that are fresh and right of the moment, fully invested in the lives of young people, while most of his peers are writing about what it's like in the old folks home.

Yooooo, it's episode 12! It posted yesterday but just getting around to letting you know about it. Sorry for the delay. I'm sure it just auto-downloaded for you because you subscribe anyway. NBD. Anyway!

EP12 posts on Thursday. Make sure you're caught up (even though, really, you can listen to any one of these at any time and it's all good. We create them to be timeless).

Rainy-day home bookshelf re-management is breaking me.

A copy of MUTUAL AID by Dean Spade with a delicious orange sherbet color cover

Spotted at the inimitable @bfbookshop.bsky.social essential skills for our troubled times @deanspade.bsky.social

Hannah talks about this book in EP10:

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Last Friday, my editor shared this post in the Intelligencer Slack, noting that we “beat Joe to this conclusion by a couple of years.” Weisenthal Y @TheStalwart G... Has any tweet aged better than this one? It's basically the defining ethos of the entire last decade. By some objective measure, it might be the best tweet of all time. Darren Rovell • @darrenrovell i feel bad for our country. But this is tremendous content. Indeed, Darren Rovell’s tweet is so exquisite that I have thought about it nearly every day since 2022. When I started writing for New York Magazine in 2012, Barack Obama was president and we still had “slow news days.” Political news was sometimes so dry that I was covering things like John Boehner’s evolving stance on the debt ceiling, and Mitt Romney’s desire to hire more women was what passed for a gaffe. Then the 2016 election got into gear, and, well … you know the rest.

After focusing on editing for a few years, I started writing for Intelligencer again early in the Biden administration, developing a beat focused on "wacky stuff Trump does that is horrifying yet undeniably funny." Obviously, I needed a punchier term for this. Thus, the label "Tremendous Content" was born. This could be anything from Trump turning an exterior White House wall into his personal burn book to Melania breezily heralding the robot apocalypse to the president offering regular updates on his odds of getting into heaven. I start each workday wondering what "Tremendous Content" Trump will serve up. Perhaps this isn't good for me physically; I admit I've never "ACED" (or even taken) a dementia screening, nor have I been proclaimed the "healthiest individual" ever employed by New York Magazine. But I'm grateful that I get to clarify topics like whether Trump is really bringing back Columbus Day (no, as it was never canceled) and which inanimate objects the president is feuding with (currently windmills and stairs). Once in a while, Trump is eerily quiet. As John Mulaney put it, "The creepiest days are when you don't hear from the horse at all." But usually a fresh batch of Trumpian absurdity is just one Truth Social refresh away.

Journalists with this attitude are a huge part of how we ended up in our current nightmare and it blows my mind that they are still out here in 2026 without any self awareness of this fact.

Part of putting our country back together needs to be driving these people out of political reporting.

EP11 came out of the gate HOT. Biggest single-day download for an episode yet for FBAF! Are you folks just hoping Sam slags all over "Hamnet"? Love a good Cinderella retelling? What's the deal?

EP11 came out of the gate HOT. Biggest single-day download for an episode yet for FBAF! Are you folks just hoping Sam slags all over "Hamnet"? Love a good Cinderella retelling? What's the deal?

Posting EP11 shortly. Might want to catch up on 10 first.

No Way Home by T C Boyle | The Book Shop of Beverly Farms Terrence Tully, work-obsessed and a naif in the arenas of sex and love, is at work when he receives news that his mother has died. A third-year medical resident in a gritty community hospital in downt...

Just finished the new TC Boyle, and that dude still COOKS. I don't think anyone writes about not-very-bright people like TC does. Just a master of writing people who make terrible decisions.

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Copy of Robert Parish’s new book THE CHIEF

Spotted at the incomparable @bfbookshop.bsky.social and reminded of great recent pod with @TheChief and @johnkaralis.com (tagging @JAKEUITTI over in the bad place, just in case)

YES. Of course this sucks, because Google used to be a handy little service and now it's increasingly not. But if, like us, you now believe the only way forward is for Google to die in a ball of flames and have people return to useful things like dictionaries and encyclopedias, this is GREAT.

This episode also features Sam doing a Maine-French accent, just as an FYI.

Oh, wow. True!

Looking for a solid indictment of billionaires, told through the lens of a kid who aspires to grifting, but winds up dead? Book #4 will do ya.

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This is a great way to while away the weekend. @keithob.bsky.social told us he likes to listen while walking the dog. You do you.

Oh, right, Episode 10 of "Four Books a Fortnight" is live! Did we pick a book that's out of print for book 1? We did. But if you haven't read Carolyn Chute, you better get to the library! Plus a modern retelling of the fountain of youth, a giant space opera, and an anti-billionaire screed...

We're quite good with horses. I think if one was in our front room, we could get it out the door using just a carrot. Horses are large.

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