Keene on Books makes its 2026 return with an episode on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's 2025 novel Dream Count. Host / Associate Professor of English Education Chris Parsons is joined by KoB legend Dr. Emily Robins Sharpe. She is Professor of English at Keene State, teaching courses on, amongst other things, postcolonial and world modernist literatures. Emily is the author of Mosaic Fictions: Writing Identity in the Spanish Civil War.

Keene on Books returns with an episode on Agustina Bazterrica’s 2017 novel Tender Is the Flesh (Sarah Moses's 2020 English translation). Host / Associate Professor of English Education Chris Parsons is joined by three KSC legends: Dr. Anna Schur is Professor of English at Keene State and author of the books Wages of Evil: Dostoevsky and Punishment and The Letters and the Law: Legal and Literary Culture in Late Imperial Russia; Dr. Kirsti Sandy is Interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Keene State, an English professor, and author of the prizewinning book of linked memoir essays, 2017’s She Lived, and the Other Girls Died; and Dr. Lisa DiGiovanni is Professor of Modern Languages and Cultures and Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State and author of the 2025 book, Militarized Masculinity in Spain and Chile: Remembering Violence through Film and Literature.

Keene on Books returns with an episode discussing Louise Erdrich's 2024 novel, The Mighty Red. Host / Associate Professor of English Education Chris Parsons is joined by Celia Rabinowitz, Director of Keene State's Mason Library and Molly Parsons, Assistant Director of the Center for Research and Writing at KSC. Molly may have founded The Mighty Red fan club, but Celia and I are eager members.