Kelsey Patterson

Listen to Kelsey Patterson as she recommends The Moon, The Stars, and Madame Burova by Ruth Hogan.

Listen to Kelsey Patterson as she recommends Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn.

Kelsey and Jenn talk with best-selling author Ali Hazelwood about her fan fiction roots, favorite romance tropes, background in academia, and the power of STEMinist love stories—where the heroines break barriers just as easily as they break hearts.

Listen to Kelsey Patterson as she recommends Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus.

Kelsey and Jenn talk with award-winning author Kate Manning about finding threads to the past to uncover women's stories, the courage and resilience of the women in her novels, and her new book Gilded Mountain. Romance, drama, history, and fierce women—we're all in!

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff joins Jenn and Kelsey in this episode of The First Fifty Pages to discuss her revelatory new biography about one of our nation's least known but arguably most essential Founding Father, The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams.

Listen to Kelsey Patterson as she recommends Fortune Favors the Dead by Stephen Spotswood.

Listen for a discussion about how war trauma becomes part of the tapestry of the immigrant experience across generations. And--some fun insight into Korean zombie movies--you won't be disappointed!

Listen to Kelsey Patterson as she recommends Grave Reservations by Cherie Priest.

Making her thriller debut with The Fields, author Erin Young joins Kelsey and Jenn in this episode of The First Fifty Pages.