Turn The Page – Episode 218C – Claudia Lux


SIGN HERE is an incredible genre-defying debut from Claudia Lux. Half workplace comedy, half heartrending family thriller, it is in turns hilariously funny and deeply affecting. Jessikah & Jenn had so much fun chatting with Claudia.

Turn The Page – Episode 217D – Elizabeth Winthrop Alsop

Elizabeth Winthrop Alsop grew up the daughter of war hero and journalist Stewart Alsop III, but her mother Tish Alsop had been a hero in her own right. Elizabeth chats with us about discovering her quiet mother’s secret history as a decoding agent for MI5 — and how this granted her a deep relationship with her mother later in life, only to care for Tish as she succumbed to dementia in her later years.

Turn The Page – Episode 217B – Rachel Harrison


Jessikah sinks her teeth into Rachel Harrison’s new book SUCH SHARP TEETH. We get a few words in about lady werewolves, and how these stories of transformation parallel how we feel about bodily autonomy.

Turn The Page – Episode 216B – Josh Malerman

Panic, urban legends, and Sue Bird! We spend a lot of time bouncing around topics with Josh Malerman — but it all relates to DAPHNE, a fabulous book that you should definitely read with the lights on.

Turn The Page – Episode 216D – Liz Climo

Liz Climo — a cartoonist whose credits range from The Simpsons to Picture Books joins us to chat about I’M SO HAPPY YOU’RE HERE, a sweet affirming book for ages 5 to 95 that feels like a hug from your favorite stuffed animals.

Turn The Page – Episode 215A – Russell James


Jessikah chats with Russell James about THE DEMON DAGGER, a sci-fi horror novel set in Florida about a Demon Hunter who discovers that the stakes are high when someone very close to him has been possessed.

Turn The Page – Episode 214A – Laurie Lico Albanese


Jessikah and Jenn were lucky enough to talk to Laurie Lico Albanese about her beautiful new book, HESTER, which asks and answers the question about who may have inspired the protagonist of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s THE SCARLET LETTER. They discuss many things, including: would Hawthorne have a Twitter account today?

Turn The Page – Episode 213D – Deanna Raybourn

Deanna Raybourne returns to TURN THE PAGE with KILLERS OF A CERTAIN AGE, her highly anticipated contemporary novel about a team of female assassins who are getting ready to retire after decades of service–unfortunately the organization they worked for has marked them as targets.