Poured Over Double Shot: Ann Patchett and Jimin Han
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett is a rich, multidimensional story of family, love and summer stock theater. Patchett joins us…
Jenna Seery
Jenna Seery has been a Barnes & Noble Bookseller since 2017 and a reader since birth. After getting a degree in English Literature (and a couple other degrees for good measure) she joined the BN team to be around books as much as she could. She’s most at home among the fiction shelves (literary fiction to the front, please!) but she spends a fair share of her time with poetry and history books as well.
Poured Over: Colin Walsh on Kala
There’s always this thing that makes you kind of gravitate towards an idea … that you just feel this kind…
Poured Over: Pierce Brown on Light Bringer
“The fantastical worlds, the science fiction worlds offer a place where they can explore…” Light Bringer, the 6th installment in…
Poured Over: Richard Russo on Somebody’s Fool
“If you’re going to go to dark places … then you better go armed with humor” Pulitzer Prize Winner Richard…
Poured Over: Christine Pride and Jo Piazza on You Were Always Mine
Writing duo Christine Pride and Jo Piazza return with You Were Always Mine, a timely, tender and thought-provoking novel about…
Poured Over: David Lipsky on The Parrot and the Igloo
“I feel this book is really about America.” David Lipsky’s The Parrot and the Igloo is not the climate change…
Poured Over: Rachel E. Cargle on A Renaissance of Our Own
“And I’m grateful for the times I got to ask questions. I got to be curious, I got to say,…
Poured Over: Michael Finkel on The Art Thief
“Every reader can have a different opinion at the end between admiration and disgust and nobody’s wrong.” The Art Thief…
Poured Over: Beth Nguyen on Owner of a Lonely Heart
“That to me is part of the joy … of memoir, which is — it is all about looking back.” …
Poured Over Double Shot: Aaliyah Bilal and Caleb Azumah Nelson
Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson is a novel of family and freedom as one young man navigates coming of…
Poured Over: Patrick deWitt on The Librarianist
“… what is it like to live your life through the books you read?” The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt is…
Poured Over: Adrienne Brodeur on Little Monsters
“What part of yourself is actually in each character?” Little Monsters by Adrienne Brodeur is a family drama set on…
Poured Over Double Shot: Danielle Trussoni and Ivy Pochoda
Whether it’s to 18th century Prague or present-day Los Angeles, you’ll find yourself transported with these fast paced and thrilling…
Poured Over: Jason Mraz on Mystical Magical Rhythmical Radical Ride
“This whole life experience is just a ride, and occasionally we get to steer it” Jason Mraz’s new album Mystical…
Poured Over: Henry Hoke and Jackson Howard on Open Throat
“I didn’t want to get sick of my work … let’s write something that I’m going to enjoy.” Open Throat…
Poured Over: Caroline O’Donoghue on The Rachel Incident
“God, I was an idiot, but I had good legs.” Caroline O’Donoghue’s The Rachel Incident is a witty and emotional journey through…
Poured Over: Elysha Chang and Sarah Jessica Parker on A Quitter’s Paradise
Elysha Chang’s debut, A Quitter’s Paradise, is the story of one woman’s journey through family secrets, grief and love told…
Poured Over: Jennifer Ackerman on What an Owl Knows
“I found in nature that kind of the same appeal that I find in books which is: … they’re both…
Poured Over: Lorrie Moore on I am Homeless if This is Not My Home
“Does one ever move on from someone they love dying?” Lorrie Moore’s I Am Homeless If This Is Not My…
Poured Over Double Shot: Celia Bell and Claudia Cravens
Two authors take on historical fiction with these novels featuring queer love, heartbreak, coming of age and agency with rich…