Dec 27, 2017
Calendars change every twelve months, but resolutions — and how to keep them — are a perpetually urgent question. And as we're just about to step into a brand new year, it’s the perfect time to share a conversation we recorded earlier this year with The Happiness Project author Gretchen Rubin, about the hidden...
Dec 20, 2017
In this episode, NBC news correspondent Katy Tur joins Jim Mustich to talk about her experience on the Trump campaign trail in 2016 — including her frequent role as a target of the future President’s taunts — as chronicled in her recent book Unbelievable: My Front Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American...
Dec 15, 2017
Authors are, without exception, readers, and behind every book there is... another book, and another. In this episode of the podcast, we're joined by two writers for conversations about the vital books and ideas that influence inform their own work. First, Cory Doctorow talks with B&N's Josh Perilo about his...
Dec 13, 2017
When Debbie Macomber decided to become a novelist in the late 1970s, she rented a typewriter and worked away at a kitchen table while raising four children at the same time. Four manuscripts and five years later, she sold her first romance — which would become the novel Heartsong — and started a career that would...
Dec 8, 2017
Today we're bringing you a pair of conversations that are all about invention, and about the lies that reveal the truth. First Kevin Young joins Bill Tipper for a conversation about America’s love affair with frauds and his new book Bunk: the Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts and Fake News. ...