On today's episode--the final Books Are People Too for 2025--I welcome Douglas W. Milliken, multi-hyphenate writing/music/art phenom extraordinaire. Longtime friend first time guest.

Join me for a conversation with printmaker, book and installation artist Carrie Scanga. Be prepared for laughter!

Today's conversation is with Meagan Doyle, Bowdoin's Digital Archivist

Let's get into artist's books and climate change with the extraordinary Anneli Skaar... along with discussion about Two Ponds Press, Maine Media Workshop, and the power of listening.

In this ep we check in with Strout Family Photographic Archivist, Katie Perry! Click click: check out Leon B. Strout's photographs online ✌🏻

Stuck on a crossword clue and looking ahead to a week of class visits to the Special Collections Learning Lab, on this week's show Librarian/DJ Marieke reflects on the materials pulled for MUS 2305: Beethoven and the Invention of Western Music. From a 14th century antiphonary and letter by Beethoven (written in 1824) to Elliot Schwartz's 1970 homage to Napoleon and Beethoven, tune in for thematically aligned music and some good ol' book talk.

BRP2 is graced by special guest Beck Silva '26, curator of the Library's Fall 2025 exhibit From Club to Cause: Student Groups and the Politics of Voice at Bowdoin. We're talking about her experience in the archive, alternate archives, finding student voices from the past, and promoting our upcoming exhibit party! Soundscape is Brazilian Bossa Nova (the soundtrack of Beck's summer research).

Reentry to the academic and radio world... without words! This week's episode of Books Are People Too highlights an archival playlist of instrumental music and Marieke yapping about her favorite wordless books in SC&A: Romano Hanni's "Typo Bilder Buch" (2012) and the folded books of Warja Lavater.

Join Marieke and Jamey Tanzer (Special Collections Research Services Librarian) in a convo about fan fiction and accompanied by Jamey's superb selections of cover songs! Tune in!

Today's guest is Professor Tess Chakkalakal (English/Africana Studies) and we'll be chatting about her new book, A Matter of Complexion: The Life and Fictions of Charles W. Chesnutt, her podcast Dead Writers, and working in SC&A!

Join Marieke, Katie, and Emma as they spill the tea about the SC&A workroom.

Join for a convo with book artist Rebecca Goodale as we talk about her new work and love of the French language (and more!)

Join us today for a conversation with author, editor, and founder of Littoral Books, Agnes Bushell. We talk about the interconnectedness of living in Maine (and loving books), Agnes' latest book, Verity and Perpetua (Elizabethan-era orphans escape a nunnery and fall in with some radical playwrights? A happy book with friendship at its center? Yes, please.), starting a feminist small press in Portland in 1970s, and running a small press in 2025. Thoughts on authorship outside of commodification in late capitalism.

Today let's chat with Garry from Colby Library about artist's books, set to the soundtrack of accordion music!

Thrilled to have poet and Maine Women's Writer Collection archivist Jefferson Navicky in the house. He'll be reading poems directly about books as people and we'll be discussing MWWC, his work there, and how we infuse our work with joy. Want more Jefferson? Sign up for Your Millay: Creative Exploration of an Icon!

Today's show features a conversation with Librarian Beth about radical bibliographies, citation practices, zines, and more. TUNE IN!

It's week two of Bowdoin's spring break and host/librarian Marieke was on vacation last week. Tune in to hear recently <3'd music and listen to how a librarian spends her time off (spoiler alert: it involves a lot of books)

Second annual BIRD show: we talk Audubon! Bessie Moulton Smith's Bird Book! and WHO IS WHO on campus (birdwise).

Shushing librarians, dusty archives, and more!

How do ideas happen? This ep explores the brainwork that happens while your conscious mind is somewhat distracted. Music from the car-ride (thematically linked by driving, cars, etc.) Themes discussed include: brain science, backwards design, why books matter, and unstructured time + creative thinking. Overview of this semester's session of Books Are People Too (special guests!)