Shannon Pufahl

On this week’s episode, debut author Shannon Pufahl suggests her new novel, On Swift Horses, might make you a better card player (but she could be bluffing). Set in the late 1950s, her unique Western centers on the lives and luck of two characters questioning the hands they’ve been dealt. Megan also talks with #1 New York Times bestselling author and polymath Maggie Stiefvater, in an interview sponsored by Scholastic Press. Then our editors join with their reading recommendations for the week.