Welcome to Libromania, a new podcast for the book-obsessed from the Close Reads Podcast Network. Each week David Kern will be chatting with authors, biographers, designers, collectors, critics and other people who help make book's so worthy of our attention.

Here in chapter 1, David chats with John Wilson (former editor of Books & Culture, which he ran for 20+ years, and currently a contributing editor at the Englewood Review of Books and a book columnist at First Things) about the best books of 2018.

Be sure to check out John's First Things article on his favorite books of the year here: https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2018/12/favorite-books-of-2018

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John Wilson on his favorite books of 2018