Jul 31, 2017
You never know where the idea for a great story is going to come from. For the writer Imbolo Mbue, a scene glimpsed as she strolled through a bustling New York City neighborhood offered the inspiration for her first novel. Ten years later, her novel Behold the Dreamers was tapped as the latest Oprah’s Book Club pick....
Jul 17, 2017
When a stroke left celebrated cook and food writer Judy Gethers unable to work in the kitchen, her son, editor and novelist Peter Gethers, wanted to cook her ideal meal – an epic attempt at haute cuisine he chronicles in his new memoir, My Mother's Kitchen: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and the Meaning of Life. In this...
Jul 17, 2017
A blockbuster debut like Paula Hawkins's psychological thriller The Girl on the Train might seem a hard act to follow, but Into the Water — with its nod to a classic Agatha Christie whodunit — is even more intense, claustrophobic and ambitious than its predecessor. In this episode, Paula Hawkins talks with Miwa...
Jul 17, 2017
Get thee to a nunnery: to research her new novel Saints for All Occasions, bestselling writer J. Courtney Sullivan found herself investigating the unseen lives of cloistered nuns. In this episode, the author talks with Amanda Cecil about how events from her own family life inspired her tale of secrets and lies in...
Jul 17, 2017
John Grisham's latest page-turner leaves behind the courtroom but keeps the crime: Camino Island turns on the theft of a rare manuscript. In this episode, John Grisham talks with Jim Mustich about how his first audience for fiction was an unintended one: a law school professor who read with a distinctly critical eye.