Jun 27, 2018
The film actor and star of BET’s critically acclaimed drama Being Mary Jane became a New York Times bestselling author with the publication of her memoir in essays We’re Going to Need More Wine: Stories That Are Funny, Complicated, and True. In this special live episode of the podcast, Gabrielle Union is joined by...
Jun 22, 2018
Ruth Ware's bestselling novels — including The Lying Game and The Woman in Cabin 10 — bring the aura of classic works of gothic fiction into cinematically rendered modern settings, yielding tightly wound tales of paranoia, mystery and suspense. But for all of the perfectionistic care the author seems to take with...
Jun 20, 2018
On this episode we welcome chef, restaurateur and television star Lidia Bastianich, the author of more than a dozen bestselling cookbooks which have introduced a generation to the flavors, ingredients and methods of traditional Italian regional cuisines. She joins Jim Mustich to talk about her new memoir My American...
Jun 13, 2018
How does a young person take the raw material of their life experiences — painful, funny, exhilarating, confusing — and make them into lasting art? The writer Alexander Chee drew deeply on his own childhood experiences in his riveting debut novel Edinburgh — and then turned to his fascination with masks, artifice...
Jun 8, 2018
The Academy Award-winning actor Marcia Gay Harden has created indelible characters for the stage (Angels in America, God of Carnage) and screen (Pollock, Miller's Crossing, Mystic River). On this week's episode she talks with us about her lyrical and multifaceted new book, The Seasons of My Mother: A Memoir of Love,...