Mar 30, 2018
When Uzodinma Iweala’s first novel Beasts of No Nation was first published, readers were astonished to discover such a powerful rendering of the world of a West African child soldier could come from a writer making his debut. He followed with Our Kind of People, an equally unpredictable nonfiction work about the...
Mar 28, 2018
With his bestselling novel The Woman in the Window, author A.J. Finn proved that our appetite for twisty works of psychological suspense is boundless. This week on the podcast, he joins Miwa Messer to talk about the joy he took writing a work which begins with “four walls and this woman” — and about the day his...
Mar 23, 2018
What happens when you turn your childhood obsessions with science fiction, fantasy and video games into a novel that contains them — and then that story itself becomes a touchstone for a new generation of fans? That's what happened with Ernest Cline and Ready Player One, the bestselling story of a lone gamer in a...
Mar 21, 2018
The television journalist Hoda Kotb is not only familiar to millions of viewers who join her every morning as the anchor of The Today Show, but she’s also the author of multiple bestselling books, including Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer, and Kathie Lee and Ten Years Later: Six People Who Faced...
Mar 16, 2018
With her role as a heavenly creature on the long-running television drama Touched by an Angel, the actor Roma Downey became an icon to fans, and she became a Hollywood power as the co-producer of the hit miniseries The Bible. With her new book Box of Butterflies, Downey opens up about her childhood in Northern...