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VIRA Broadcasting | The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett

The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett

Some novels announce a crisis on page one and spend the rest of the book solving it. “The Calamity Club” does something trickier: it opens with an abandonment, a debt, and a secret, and then lets all three metastasize together until an entire Mississippi town is holding its breath. Kathryn

VIRA Broadcasting | Triage by Claudia Rankine

Triage by Claudia Rankine

Claudia Rankine has spent a career asking what language can hold, and her latest book, Triage, pushes that question into the most difficult territory yet: a decades-long friendship strained nearly to the breaking point by how two people respond to the same atrocities. The book centers on two women —

VIRA Broadcasting | Kin by Tayari Jones

Kin by Tayari Jones

Some friendships start as inheritance rather than choice, formed in the gap left by absence — and Tayari Jones has built an entire novel out of that gap. Kin follows Vernice and Annie, two motherless girls raised as neighbors in the fictional town of Honeysuckle, Louisiana, whose bond forms in

VIRA Broadcasting | Etna by Paul Yoon

Etna by Paul Yoon

Some novels ask you to see war differently. Etna asks you to smell it, track it, survive it on four legs — and the gamble pays off in ways few war novels manage. Paul Yoon’s slender new novel unfolds entirely through the perception of its title character, a sixty-seven-pound mixed-breed

VIRA Broadcasting | The VIRA Briefing — August 22, 2026

The VIRA Briefing — August 22, 2026

VIRA Broadcasting The Daily Briefing August 22, 2026 Lead Story Violence Against Healthcare Workers and Staffing Shortages Fuel Hospital Strikes Nurses in Michigan, Louisiana, New York, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island are walking picket lines over a problem hospitals won’t fix: violence on the job. KFF Health News talked to ER

VIRA Broadcasting | Your Fellow Americans by Peter Santenello

Your Fellow Americans by Peter Santenello

What does it take to make a book about America itself feel like a page-turner? Peter Santenello, the YouTuber-turned-author whose channel has quietly built an audience of over four million people watching him talk to strangers in Amish country and coal towns, seems to have found the formula. “Your Fellow

VIRA Broadcasting | The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook by Matt Dinniman

The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook by Matt Dinniman

Three books into the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, Matt Dinniman finally lets his readers in on the joke that’s been running the whole time: the dungeon isn’t just trying to kill Carl and his cat, Princess Donut — it’s trying to entertain the entire galaxy while it does it. The

VIRA Broadcasting | The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

Sybil Van Antwerp has spent decades saying everything she means on paper, and almost nothing out loud. Virginia Evans’s debut novel The Correspondent is built entirely from Sybil’s outgoing mail — letters and emails fired off each morning from her desk to her brother, her oldest friend, a university president

VIRA Broadcasting | The Unknown by Riley Sager

The Unknown by Riley Sager

Some islands keep their secrets quietly. The one at the center of Riley Sager’s The Unknown keeps its by making sure nobody who learns them ever leaves to tell. In 1926, five women vanished without a trace from a remote island off the Vermont coast, their disappearance folding into local

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