Podcast

This month on the Deerfield Public Library Podcast, we are very excited to share a conversation with author Adam Morgan about his new biography, A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature (Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2025).  Morgan’s book is the first biography solely devoted… Read More

This month on the Deerfield Public Library Podcast, we are very happy to welcome writer and artist Annah Feinberg to talk about her hilarious and moving debut full-length graphic novel, Goodbye, Dolly! Narrated from beyond the grave by Dolly, the famous cloned sheep born in 1996, Goodbye, Dolly! tells the story of her six disaffected… Read More

This month on the Deerfield Public Library Podcast, we are very excited to share our conversation with Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr., author of the new novel The El, published this August by Vintage Books.  A love letter to our city of Chicago, The El follows a group of teen gang members in August 1979… Read More

Poet and Translator, James Shea This month on the Deerfield Public Library Podcast, we are very excited to share our conversation with poet, writer, and translator James Shea, whose extraordinary new collection of poems, Last Day of My Face (University of Iowa Press, 2025), was recently published as a winner of the prestigious Iowa Poetry… Read More

We’re back for year five of Queer Poem-a-Day! Queer Poem-a-Day is a unique podcast series for Pride Month, presenting a public archive of original poems written and read by contemporary LGBTQIA+ poets. For this fifth year, we’ll be sharing a poem each weekday in June on our podcast and webpage. You can listen to our… Read More

On this episode of the Deerfield Public Library Podcast, I have the pleasure of sharing a conversation with Dr. Jo Freer, a leading scholar on the work of American novelist Thomas Pynchon. I’m currently leading our Library’s Classics Book Discussion Seminar series on Pynchon’s 1973 masterpiece Gravity’s Rainbow and Dr. Freer’s work has been incredibly… Read More

On this month’s episode of the The Deerfield Public Library Podcast, I have the great honor to share a conversation with Richard Powers about his new novel Playground (W. W. Norton & Co., 2024). Playground gives us a masterful braided narrative of lives devoted to oceanography, computer programming, art, and literature, taking us from French… Read More

This month on the Deerfield Public Library Podcast, we have the pleasure of sharing a conversation with Lois Baer Barr—a poet and fiction writer living just next door to us in Riverwoods, IL—about her new novel The Tailor’s Daughter (Water’s Edge Press, 2023). The Tailor’s Daughter uses Barr’s familial memories and prodigious research to explore… Read More

We’re back for year four of Queer Poem-a-Day! Queer Poem-a-Day is a unique podcast series for Pride Month presenting a public archive of original poems written and read by contemporary LGBTQIA+ poets. For this fourth year, we’ll be sharing a poem each weekday in June on our podcast and webpage. You can listen to our… Read More

This month on the Deerfield Public Library Podcast, we are thrilled to share a conversation with three Deerfield filmmakers about their recent award-winning short films: Marina Shifrin, writer of Pickled Herring, and Bryan Simpson and Taylor Simpson, creators of Creating Things.  This conversation was recorded as part of a special live podcast and film screening… Read More