Shelf Care Society By @Brian.Reads
Hosted by Brian and Brian Larson · Brian Larson
4.9from 73 ratings
- 25
- Episodes
- 9
- Transcribed
- 73
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2026
- First episode
About Shelf Care Society By @Brian.Reads
Shelf Care Society by @Brian.Reads is the podcast for readers who treat their TBR ("to-be-read") pile as part of their self-care routine. Hosted by Brian Larson, each episode brings you into intimate, curiosity-driven interviews with authors, artists, activists, and culture-shapers who are asking better questions about ambition, creativity, identity, belonging, and what it really takes to build a life that feels like yours. Expect thoughtful storytelling, big ideas made personal, & the occasional moment that cracks something open. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts & join the Society.
- Publisher
- Brian Larson
- Category
- arts
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 22 Jan 2026
- Latest episode
- 13 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
9 of 25 episodes have a transcript.
13 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
TJ Klune on “We Burned So Bright,” Queer Love & His New Book, "The Stars Look Like Home"
30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
What should be on your reading radar as we head into the final stretch of 2026?
21 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Kathryn Stockett on “The Calamity Club,” 17 Years After “The Help”
Inside a recent episode
TJ Klune on “We Burned So Bright,” Queer Love & His New Book, "The Stars Look Like Home"
Published 13 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I did not plot out the book like I normally do. Normally, I plot out a book within an inch of its life because I'm ADHD and I have to know where I'm going. But this one, I said, let's go with the flow and see what happens. And three weeks later, the book was there and I was pleasantly surprised that it existed. I knew going into it that I wanted it to be shorter than everything I'd ever written before. Because if I felt that this book was let's say a normal length like half you know twice as long i think it would have collapsed under the weight of the oppression of the of the entire thing i like i like this how we can have these little snapshots and still get the full breadth of the story but we're not doing it with hundreds and hundreds of pages of waxing philosophically about the end of the world and and this and that which is what i would have done so and even towards the end this is not a spoiler it's like your signature magical elements yes Yeah, because this is very grounded. […]
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- TJ Klune
- Taylor Tomlinson
- Kathryn Stockett
- Josh Silver
- Jodi Picoult
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 22 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 51 ratings
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Brian and Brian Larson host the show. Published by Brian Larson.
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