Rachel Barenbaum
Rachel Barenbaum is the author of the critically-acclaimed novels Atomic Anna and A Bend in the Stars. She is a prolific writer and reviewer. Her work has appeared in the LA Review of Books, Harper’s Bazaar, and more.
Her literary radio show, Check This Out, airs on NHPR and spotlights emerging and diverse authors. She has been a scholar in residence at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute at Brandeis and her work has been supported by residencies at Ucross and Norton Island.
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“Stitched” by Eli McCann is about the cozy yet cut-throat world of competitive quilting, and podcast host Becca Freeman, author of “Back Where We Started." -
A sweeping four-century debut novel that travels from France to Acadia to the bayous of Southern Louisiana. Plus, New York Times literary critic Dwight Garner on today's literary landscape. -
An unemployed actress finds a new job taking wealthy clients on luxury time-travel tours through history. And on the Book Biz, an unlikely theme night idea that’s sold out Fenway and selling books. -
Join Daniel Mason & Rachel Barenbaum at Writers on a New England Stage in NH for an intimate reading and conversation on their creative process and stories. -
Some favorite authors offer their suggestions for summer reading, plus host Rachel Barenbaum has some books by New England authors to recommend. -
This debut novel is about an itinerant Singaporean ex-con hiding from her past in different countries. And on our Book Biz segment, author Katherine Center reflects on her 20-year publishing career. -
The debut novel "Homebound'" features four lives entangled across time by a computer game, saved to a floppy disk in the 1980s. And on our Book Biz segment, the boom in audiobooks. -
An unsettling debut novel blending romance, horror, and fairy tale elements, with nods to Frankenstein, plus, in our Book Biz segment, the future of literary criticism. -
A viral dystopian romance set in a corrupt surveillance state, following a mercenary who botches the assassination of the president’s son.And on the Book Biz segment, the romance genre as the engine of publishing. -
A sweeping family saga that traces the intertwined lives of three generations of women, moving from war-torn Germany and Ireland to coastal Maine.
