Books

NHPR's Rebecca Lavoie joins the New York Times bestselling author, NH Book Fest keynote speaker, and longtime New Hampshire resident Jodi Picoult.

NHPR's Jackie Harris sits down with award-winning novelist R.F. Kuang to discuss her latest novel, Taipei Story.

Hale, who lived in the Monadnock Region, was a fixture of New England journalism and publishing for decades.

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead visits the Capitol Center for the Arts to sit down with NHPR’s Julia Barnett and discuss the third and final novel in his Harlem trilogy, Cool Machine.

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.

Jenna Bush Hager and Shannon Garvey join NHPR's Rebecca Lavoie on The Music Hall stage in Portsmouth, NH, to discuss Hager's publishing journey and Garvey's debut novel, June Baby.

Former federal prosecutor Barbara McQuade joins NHPR's Rick Ganley to talk about her book "The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government"

Matt Haig joined NHPR's Jackie Harris at The Music Hall in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on June 1 to discuss his book The Midnight Train.

Pulitzer Prize winning author Elizabeth Strout joins NHPR's Casey McDermott to talk about her novel The Things We Never Say.

Recorded before a live audience at the Music Hall in Portsmouth, on April 4, 2026.