First Pages Readings Podcast

About First Pages Readings Podcast

Celebrating books as cultural messengers and agents of change as they open our hearts and minds to new worlds. Listen to brief commentary and readings (from fiction, non-fiction, YA, middle grade, and poetry). New episodes released once a month.

Publisher

FirstPages

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

16 Jun 2020

Latest episode

1 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

116 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Sept 2026

   Episode 95: Nature Essays on Animals (by Riley, Childs, Yong)

   In this episode, a few pages of the following books will be read: Super Natural: How Life Thrives in Impossible Places by Alex RileyThe Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild by Craig ChildsAn Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong

2. 

   1 Aug 2026

   Episode 94: Fiction (Short Stories by Rishoi, Hadley, Ditlevsen)

   In this episode, a few pages of the following books will be read: Winter Stories by Ingvild Rishoi, translated from the Norwegian by Diane OatleySunstroke and Other Stories by Tessa HadleyThe Trouble with Happiness and Other Stories by Tove Ditlevsen, translated from the Danish by Michael Favala Goldman

3. 

   1 Jul 2026

   Episode 93: Fiction (Russian and Ukrainian novels by Berberova, Kurkov, and Gogol)

   In this episode, a few pages of the following books will be read: Cape of Storms by Nina Berberova, translated from the Russian by Marian SchwartzThe Milkman in the Night by Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov, translated from the Russian by Amanda Love Darragh, andDead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 25 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

27

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

60

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