05-24: Birding Book Club: Guides to Mexico and Central America

04-28: Birding Book Club: All of a Family: It’s time for the American Birding Podcast Birding Book Club and host Nate Swick welcomes bird media reviewers Frank Izaguirre from the and Donna Schulman from the website to talk family specific guides. What are those, you might ask. We'll chat... by The American Birding Podcast

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06-27: Birding Book Club - Best Birding References: Birders love bird books, and we at the American Birding Podcast love to get together to discuss bird books in the Birding Book Club segment. Donna Schulman from the website 10,000 Birds and Birding magazine’s Frank Izaguirre join Nate Swick to talk... by The American Birding Podcast

54 min listen

04-41: Birding Book Club: Best of 2020: It’s finally December of 2020, the month of annual superlatives. It was a pretty interesting year for bird books and we convene the Birding Book Club crew to talk about them. 10,000 Birds book review columnist and Birding media review editor ... by The American Birding Podcast

51 min listen

07-33: Birding Book Club - Books for Birders that Aren't About Birds: Birders love books, and with so many options out there it’s nice to have some friends around to make suggestions, talk about what we like a lot, maybe what we don’t like quite as much, and celebrate the literary side of the birding lifestyle.... by The American Birding Podcast

69 min listen

04-11: Birding Book Club - Big Year Narratives: In recent years it has seemed as though doing an ABA Area Big Year means that you have to write a book about it, but the form's roots can be traced to Roger Tory Peterson himself. What makes them so popular? Are they travelogue, sporting conquest,... by The American Birding Podcast

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03-25: Best Bird Books of 2019 with Donna Schulman: As is our tradition, the end of the year means it’s time for a look back at the best bird books published this year. Once again, book reviewer Donna Schulman joins me to talk about our favorites. Donna and I each share our Top 5, including... by The American Birding Podcast

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05-46: Birding Book Club - Best of 2021: It is time once more for the most anticipated Birding Book Club of the year, our annual Best Bird Books of the Year episode for 2021. And while it is still November, holiday gift-giving season is right around the corner so we want to get this... by The American Birding Podcast

51 min listen

Episode six: Ann Patchett by The Queen's Reading Room Podcast

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06-49: Birding Book Club - Best of 2022: It is time once more for the most anticipated Birding Book Club of the year, our annual Best Bird Books of the Year episode for 2022. With the holiday gift-giving season is right around the corner there's no better time to give the gift of bird books... by The American Birding Podcast

58 min listen

05-23: 2021 Splits and Lumps with Nick Block: Early summer means that it’s time to talk taxonomy, and that means , professor of Biology at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts. For the last several years, Nick is person we like to talk to when it comes to reading the tea-leaves of the .... by The American Birding Podcast

41 min listen

01-24: Best Bird Books of 2017 with Donna Schulman: We all love bird books and 2017 was a good year for them with a number of exciting titles seeing publication this year. As we reach the end of the year it's a good time to look back at the ones we loved, and 10,000 Birds book reviewer Donna Schulman... by The American Birding Podcast

32 min listen

Nina Munteanu - Diary in the Age of Water & Water Is... 401: Nina Munteanu discusses her books A Diary in the Age of Water & Water Is... This is episode 401 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Nina Munteanu is a Canadian ecologist and internationally published novelist of science fiction and fan... by Teaching Learning Leading K-12

72 min listen

07-49: Birding Book Club - Best of 2023: The Birding Book Club is back again to do our annual Best Bird Books of the Year episode for 2023. With the holiday gift-giving season is right around the corner there’s no better time to give the gift of bird books to the birder in your life. And... by The American Birding Podcast

63 min listen

07-51: This Month in Birding - December 2023: This Month in Birding is The American Birding Podcast’s monthly round table discussion on all things birds and birding. This month features Nick Lund, Sarah Swanson, and Mo Stych talking AI and birding, light pollution, a tragic macaw love story and... by The American Birding Podcast

47 min listen

Writing the Definitive Book on Cocktails w David Wondrich & Noah Rothbaum | ep. 271: This week we are joined by, David Wondrich & Noah Rothbaum, the authors of the The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails, which is released this week on November 4th. The book is important as it is the first major reference work to cover... by Bartender at Large

33 min listen

06-26: This Month in Birding - June 2022: It's the last episode of the month and that means it's time for This Month in Birding, featuring a fun panel of ABA friends discussing the biggest birding news of the month and more. On our panel this month, Sarah Bloemers from the hilarious t, of... by The American Birding Podcast

47 min listen

Planning a Successful Research Trip: Episode 37: Hit the road with Family Tree Magazine this summer -- the June episode of the podcast offers up advice for taking research trips and preserving your ancestors' souvenirs. Plus: Learn about our state research webinars and the Early American Roads and Tr... by Family Tree Magazine Podcast

36 min listen

Electric Soup - 22 April 2024: Going to the salt mines. by A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over

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05-34: This Month in Birding - August 2021: It’s the last week of August and that means it’s time for This Month in Birding featuring a panel containing some folks familiar to those who are keeping up with the growing birding podcast scene. It's a fun group with some birdosphere podcast... by The American Birding Podcast

57 min listen

04-20: J.J. Audubon and the Bird of Washington Fraud with Matthew Halley: John James Audubon is frequently referred to with reverence as the father of the North American ornithology, and has a public reputation that is nearly impeccable. He has birds named after him, the country’s best known bird organization has his... by The American Birding Podcast

40 min listen

59. How to Start a Book Club: The Ultimate Guide: Want to be in a brilliant book club? Here's how to start your own. by The Book Club Review

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07-14: How to Identify Flycatchers with Cin-Ty Lee & Andrew Birch: Birders have long considered the tyrant flycatchers, in particular the Empidonax species and Pewees to be one of the most difficult identification concerns in North America. Author Cin-Ty Lee and illustrator Andrew Birch seek to calm the fears of... by The American Birding Podcast

36 min listen

Nathan Hill, author of “Wellness”: Nathan Hill first came on the show in 2017 with his ¬best-selling debut novel, The Nix, which was named the #1 book of the year by Audible and Entertainment Weekly, and one of the year’s best books by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, Slate, and many others. Wellness came out this year. It’s also a New York Times bestseller and was selected by Oprah Winfrey for her book club in September. Nathan joins Marrie Stone to talk about it, along with how his characters reveal themselves to him, how he manages time in a novel, how he weaves copious amounts of research into the narrative, how he plays with unconventional points of view, and much more. He also shares his thoughts on getting an MFA, how he found his agent, and his advice to aspiring novelists who feel stuck on the outside of the publishing industry. Along the way, the conversation references an article Nathan wrote for Oprah’s Magazine, “How to Write a Novel in 7 Easy Steps.” It’s fun by Writers on Writing: A Weekly Podcast for Writers, Readers, & Book Lovers

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01-07: The Biggest Week with Kim Kaufman: The Biggest Week in American Birding is one of the biggest birding events on the calendar, and a wonderful opportunity for birders to make a difference while enjoying the best spring birding on the continent. Biggest Week creator Kim Kaufman joins... by The American Birding Podcast

25 min listen

September 15, 2021 The Torture Orchard, James Gates Percival, Frances Garnet Wolseley, Marjorie Harris, Lauren Oliver, The World was My Garden by David Fairchild, and Ripen Tomatoes Fast: Today in botanical history, we celebrate an American doctor, a Viscountess, and a Canadian fiction writer. We hear a little excerpt about September - such a milestone month for so many people. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book about one of... by The Daily Gardener

15 min listen

#15 - How the Newbery Awards Work: Today we are discussing how the Newbery Awards work, two fantastic adventures, and I’ll answer a question about this year’s top contenders for the Newbery Award. by Books Between Podcast

24 min listen

JERICHO BROWN - Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet - Editor of “How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill”: Daniel Omotosho Black, Jericho Brown, Breena Clark, Rita Dove, Camille T. Dungy, W. Ralph Eubanks, Curdella Forbes, Angela Flournoy, Ernest Gaines, Nikki Giovanni, Marita Golden, Ravi Howard, Terrance Hayes, Mitchell S. Jackson, Barry Jenkins, Charles S. Johnson, Tayari Jones, Jamaica Kincaid, by Books & Writers · The Creative Process: Novelists, Screenwriters, Playwrights, Poets, Non-fiction Writers & Journalists Talk Writing, Life & Creativity

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02-20: Fall at Cape May with David La Puma: Few birders would dispute that Cape May, New Jersey, is among the continent’s most storied birding locations, both in terms of birding spectacle and influence on North American birding culture. It feels like Cape May Bird Observatory, New Jersey... by The American Birding Podcast

35 min listen

06-11: Secrets of Cemetery Birding with Danielle Belleny: In many many parts of the country, and the world, the most accessible greenspaces are cemeteries. And while they have a morbid reputation, they can offer lots of great nature opportunities for those willing to explore. is a wildlife biologist in San... by The American Birding Podcast

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05-24: Birding Book Club: Guides to Mexico and Central America

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