World War Z author Max Brooks is back with a delightfully frightening sasquatch story.

This week’s episode is sponsored by Penguin Young Readers Group, publishers of Darius the Great Deserves Better by Adib Khorram. (Enter here to win one of 15 copies of the prequel, Darius the Great Is Not Okay.)

In our lead interview, bestselling novelist Max Brooks discusses Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre (Dey Street, June 16). Presented as an unbiased journalistic investigation, the story unfolds amid a natural disaster that tests the skills and alliances of the city-slicker denizens of an intentional community in the Cascade Range.

Kirkus: “A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy” (starred review).

In this episode, Brooks and host Megan Labrise discuss the difference between pandemic and natural disaster, the idea that tech circles don’t truck in disaster preparedness, and his position as a nonresident fellow at the Modern War Institute at West Point.

Then young readers’ editors Vicky Smith and Laura Simeon, nonfiction editor Eric Liebetrau, and fiction editor Laurie Muchnick share their reading recommendations for the week.

Editors’ picks:

Rot, the Bravest in the World! by Ben Clanton (Atheneum)

Call Me American (Adapted for Young Adults) by Abdi Nor Iftin (Delacorte)

Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker (Doubleday)

The Daughters of Erietown by Connie Schultz (Random House)

Fully Booked is produced by Cabel Adkins Audio and Megan Labrise.