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About Rebekah Buchanan
Rebekah Buchanan is a Professor of English and Director of English Education at Western Illinois University. Her research focuses on feminism, activism, and literacy practices in youth culture, specifically through zines and music. She has written extensively on popular culture in the classroom, youth’s out of school literacy practices, music-based pedagogy, and punk, including her book "Writing a Riot: Riot Grrrl Zines and Feminist Rhetorics" (Peter Lang, 2018). She's a diehard Cubs fan and misses The Winchester Brothers.Rebekah Buchanan is a Professor of English and Director of English Education at Western Illinois University. Her research focuses on feminism, activism, and literacy practices in youth culture, specifically through zines and music.
NBN Episodes hosted by Rebekah:
October 31, 2026
Hollywood Renegade
Todd Berliner's Hollywood Renegade: Elaine May, Mikey and Nicky, and the Making of a Masterpiece (U Texas Press, 2026) examines Elaine May’s Mikey and…
October 24, 2026
Traveling the Yellow Brick Road
In Traveling the Yellow Brick Road: What We Learn from The Wizard of Oz and Wicked (McFarland, 2026) Steven Keslowitz explores how The Wizard of Oz an…
October 21, 2026
The Haunted Playground
From R.J. Palacio, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wonder and Brett Helquist, the illustrator of A Series of Unfortunate Events, comes The…
October 19, 2026
The Age of Fury
John Stephen's The Age of Fury (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2026) takes place in Gilded Age New York, a fierce seventeen year-old Irish girl joins …
October 19, 2026
Huda F Would Love You?: A Graphic Novel
Huda Fahmy's latest, Huda F Would Love You? (Dial Books, 2026) is a funny and tender finale to the Huda F series, Huda has a plan to find love—but she…
October 12, 2026
Samantha: The Next Chapter
Samantha: The Next Chapter (American Girl Publishing, 2026). From American Girl and New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis comes the next chapt…
October 12, 2026
Butter Road
Jaclyn Gilbert's Butter Road (Acre Books, 2026) is a searing novel about a community irrevocably transformed by gun violence. In 2006, a gunman entere…
October 11, 2026
Troubled Times
Kevin Galvin's Troubled Times: The Boston Courthouse Bombing Of 1976 (Brandeis UP, 2026), interweaves the stories of a revolutionary and a bombing vic…
October 6, 2026
Women in Comics
Susan E. Kirtley and Nhora Lucía Serrano's Women in Comics (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2026) is a richly illustrated, essential guide to the importanc…
October 4, 2026
The Stitches Between Us
Taylor D. Lott's The Stitches Between Us (Hawes & Jenkins, 2025) tells the story of Theo, a quiet, imaginative boy growing up in a home where sens…
September 29, 2026
The Last of the Ellis Island Jews
Joel Dinerstein's The Last of the Ellis Island Jews (SUNY Press, 2026) is a tragicomic memoir of a dysfunctional, working-class Brooklyn Jewish family…
September 25, 2026
What Is Life Worth?
Kenneth R. Feinberg's What is Life Worth? New Edition with Reflections 25 Years After 9/11 (Rivertown Books, 2026) shares the story that inspired the …
September 8, 2026
Pining for You
In Pining for You (Simon & Schuster, 2026) the classic Hallmark holiday movie gets turned upside down when a teen leaves her small-town Christmas …
September 3, 2026
Point Break
Stephen Lee Naish's Point Break: Movies Minute by Minute (Bloomsbury, 2026), in Bloomsbury's Timecodes Series, is a detailed, minute-by-minute critica…
September 1, 2026
Our Strange Duet
Our Strange Duet: Inspired by Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera (Delacorte Press, 2026) is a reimagining of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of …
September 1, 2026
Catching Feelings
Emily Charlotte's second Varsity Novel book Catching Feelings (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2026) follows Sabrina and her first rule for a drama-free …
August 26, 2026
Stranded in the Future
Robyn Hitchcock's second memoir, Stranded in the Future (Akashic Books, 2026), explores the formation of his seminal 1970s band the Soft Boys, and the…
August 25, 2026
Post Mortem
Post Mortem: A Mystery (Knopf, 2026) is the third book in David Lagercrantz's mystery series following detective duo Rekke and Vargas: this time, thei…
August 18, 2026
The Fast Track
Angelica Cheng's YA rom-com, The Fast Track (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2026) brings readers into the world of F1 racing. Justine Kwong…
August 9, 2026
The Patty Duke Show and the American Sixties
In The Patty Duke Show and the American Sixties: Hot Dogs and Crêpes Suzette (Oxford UP, 2026), the first ever published on The Patty Duke Show (1963-…
August 6, 2026
The Unexpected Afterlife of Salon Rose
In Amy B. Scher's The Unexpected Afterlife of Salon Rose (Tiny Ghost Press, 2026) college hopeful Salon Rose arrives to the Nowhere in Between, a way-…
August 5, 2026
A (Dead) Thing Like Me
In E.G. Young's debut novel A (Dead) Thing Like Me (Holiday House, 2026), a teenage ghost in love with life becomes bound to the house of the grieving…
August 3, 2026
Raleigh and the Pirates
J.J. Crayhill's Raleigh and the Pirates (Raconteur Press, 2026) is the launch of The Adventures of Midshipman Raleigh — a science fiction adventure se…
August 2, 2026
What You Should Worry About
Tune in to this interview with Meryl Branch-McTiernan about her new book What You Should Worry About (Akashic Books, 2026). It's January of 2020 and …