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The greatest ghost story ever told may be one of the first ever published. The Castle of Otranto doesn’t get everything right but those familiar tropes - the ghostly moan or creepy footsteps – are all there. Katie Lanning tells us how Horace Walpole created a new genre on today’s Why Should I Read This?

Beth Golay visits with author Mary Beth Keane about her new novel, "Whale Harbor."

In addition to being an English professor, Kerry Jones is also an author who grew up in a small town. That’s why she’s recommending a book set in a small town in Ohio where there’s a lot going on behind closed doors. She tells us why on today’s Why Should I Read This?

If you overlook the book's horribly hedge-fund-sounding subtitle — Do 50% More with 50% Less — the new self-help playbook from the founders of Axios really does offer some useful advice.

Beth Golay visits with author Elizabeth Castellano on her new novel, "Proof of Progress." And she also reviews "After Midnight: Thirteen Tales for the Dark Hours" by Daphne du Maurier.

Banned Books Week launched in 1982 in response to a surge in the number of book challenges in libraries and schools. This year's theme is "Let Books Be: Protect the Freedom to Read."

On this episode, Beth Golay visits with Pulitzer Prize–winning author, Hernan Diaz, about his new novel "Ply."

Nineteenth century American women may not have had the right to vote, yet Wichita State English professor Rebeccah Bechtold thinks they still knew how to smash the patriarchy. She tells us why on today’s Why Should I Read This?

Hildur Knutsdottir's new novel opens with a killer opening line: “I have thought long and hard about how I would dispose of a dead body.”

On this episode of Marginalia, Beth Golay visits with John Green about his new novel, "Hollywood, Ending." Plus Margaret Leonard, owner of Dotters Books in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, joins us with some book recommendations.