SSR Podcast

Hosted ByAlli Hoff Kosik

Each week, freelance writer and lifelong bookworm Alli Hoff Kosik will challenge a guest to reread a literary throwback or to experience for the first time ever a book they may have missed as a kid. After that, they'll be asked to spill all the feels and all the opinions about that book on the air for your podcast-listening pleasure. Every Tuesday, you can find us breaking down an old school read from our tween and teen days on a new episode of the show. We'll cover everything from The Baby-Sitters Club to Holes, Nancy Drew to Harry Potter. This time around, we're a little wiser (yay!), a lot older (ugh.), and of legal age to drink wine... so we'll have a lot to say. Happy Reading!


All Episodes

Episode 292: Mary Anne Saves the Day (Baby-Sitters Club #4)

Join Alli and her guest for a trip to one of our favorite settings: Stonybrook, Connecticut—home of the Baby-Sitters Club. This time, the discussion focuses on the fourth book...

Episode 291: Mockingjay

At long last, we tackle the final book in the original Hunger Games trilogy: Mockingjay. This is a heavy book, so there’s lots to get into in this episode:...

Episode 290: WTF #3 | (Main) Character Energy

Welcome back to SSR: WriTing Friends! This time around, Alli and Abby are digging a little deeper into one of their favorite elements of the writing process: creating characters....

Episode 289: Alone in the Crowd (Sweet Valley High #28)

It’s been too long since we paid a visit to Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield in good old Sweet Valley, California. Let’s fix that! Episode 289 covers the twenty-eighth installment...

BONUS EPISODE: All About Judy Blume!

This special bonus episode features Rachelle Bergstein, author of the new book The Genius of Judy. In it, Alli and Rachelle cover all things related to SSR queen JUDY...

Episode 288: The New Girl (Fear Street #1)

This week, SSR gets a jump on Halloween festivities with a long overdue trip to R.L. Stine’s Fear Street. Specifically, Episode 288 is all about the first title in...

Episode 287: Fearless

Colleen McKeegan returns this week to celebrate another book hitting the shelves and to unpack another one of her favorite summer reads from childhood. This time, it’s Fearless by...

Episode 286: WTF #2 | Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsing or Plotting

On the second installment of our SSR: WriTing Friends series, Alli and Abby focus on the writing process: plotting, pantsing, and everything in between. They talk about their own...

Episode 285: How to Eat Fried Worms

Let’s talk about How to Eat Fried Worms! Thomas Rockwell’s 1973 book has never been out-of-print, which is a pretty big deal. On Episode 285, Alli and her guest...

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