Aug 12, 2026 · 33 min · 23 segments
Welcome to Prose Society — the book club, community, and weekly culture podcast you didn't know you needed. In this debut episode, Eli opens up about why it took months to bring the show back (hint…
Eli RalloHost
That is going to be my once-a-month check-in about the book that I have selected for the month.
We are going to be championing literary and commercial fiction with an emphasis on diverse authors, debut authors, female authors, minority, marginalized POC authors.
So if you are watching this and you are in publishing or if you represent authors, please feel free to pitch us.
We are so excited to champion some fresh new work, some translated works, just interesting, new, fun stuff.
And we'll also be reading some literary it girl books that everybody's reading that are gonna sell hundreds and thousands of copies as well because we've gotta talk about it all.
But that's kind of the vibe for the first three episodes of the month, and then the fourth episode every month is going to be our long form, longest episode, which will be a guest episode.
And I'm so excited to hear who you guys hope that I have on this podcast to platform.
I hope that there are people that you're familiar with and people that you're unfamiliar with that I can turn you on to or put you on to.
And I'm just so excited for that opportunity to kind of like dig my heels in, do a little interviewing, and all the good stuff.
And it's just gonna be a place where you can come if you love literary fiction and Love Island, the highbrow and the lowbrow, and everything in between.
That is going to be my once-a-month check-in about the book that I have selected for the month.
We are going to be championing literary and commercial fiction with an emphasis on diverse authors, debut authors, female authors, minority, marginalized POC authors.
So if you are watching this and you are in publishing or if you represent authors, please feel free to pitch us.
We are so excited to champion some fresh new work, some translated works, just interesting, new, fun stuff.
And we'll also be reading some literary it girl books that everybody's reading that are gonna sell hundreds and thousands of copies as well because we've gotta talk about it all.
But that's kind of the vibe for the first three episodes of the month, and then the fourth episode every month is going to be our long form, longest episode, which will be a guest episode.
And I'm so excited to hear who you guys hope that I have on this podcast to platform.
I hope that there are people that you're familiar with and people that you're unfamiliar with that I can turn you on to or put you on to.
And I'm just so excited for that opportunity to kind of like dig my heels in, do a little interviewing, and all the good stuff.
And it's just gonna be a place where you can come if you love literary fiction and Love Island, the highbrow and the lowbrow, and everything in between.
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