PRINTCast: The PRINT Podcast Studio is a curated collection of cutting-edge podcasts we love about design, creativity, branding, books, and further subjects afield. Soon, we’ll have a dedicated digital listening room. In the meantime, we present Bookable from host and author Amanda Stern—“an audio exploration of a great book—usually a new one, sometimes classic or even obscure, but always one hundred percent worth knowing about.”
The latest episode features Rumaan Alam.
Here’s more from the Bookable team:
Want to get away from it all? Maybe rent a house somewhere remote, with no access to the internet, overlooking the woods and a swimming pool? But what if that heavenly vacation goes wrong—really wrong—in a way that has global consequences? In Rumaan Alam's Leave the World Behind, that's exactly what happens, starting with an unexpected late-night knock on the door that leads to a shifting of reality itself.
Alam is the author of three novels: Rich and Pretty, That Kind of Mother and Leave the World Behind. His other writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Buzzfeed and the New Republic, where he is a contributing editor. He also co-hosts two podcasts for Slate, studied writing at Oberlin College, and lives in New York with his husband and two kids.
This episode was produced by Andrew Dunn and Amanda Stern. It was mixed and sound-designed by Andrew Dunn, who also created Bookable’s chill vibe. The host is Amanda Stern. Beau Friedlander is Bookable's executive producer and editor-in-chief of Loud Tree Media.
Music: “Books that Bounce” by Rufus Canis, “Uni Swing Vox” by Rufus Canis, “Denholm Green” by Prairie Ensemble, “Washed Out” by Shaky Faces, “Morning Tide” by The Mariner, “Wintler Wine” by Prairie Ensemble, “Thinking of a Master Plan” by Theory Hazit, “Syntagma” by Jules Blueprints.