Jul 25, 2018
Daniel Silva’s eighteen bestselling thrillers featuring art restorer and Israeli spymaster Gabriel Allon share DNA with the works of classic espionage writers like Grahame Green, Eric Ambler and John Le Carre. His latest novel The Other Woman begins when a carefully planned operation involving a Russian courier goes...
Jul 18, 2018
The novelist Emily Giffin has been hailed by Vanity Fair as a "modern day Jane Austen." Books like Something Borrowed, First Comes Love, and The One and Only have brought her endearingly flawed characters through the trials of modern adulthood -- love, marriage, children -- with humor, empathy and insight. Emily Giffin...
Jul 9, 2018
Anne Tyler is the bestselling author of more than twenty novels including Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant and A Spool of Blue Thread. She's the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a favorite of critics, readers, and book clubs everywhere. Her new novel Clock Dance is a story of family, resilience, second chances, and...
Jul 3, 2018
In this episode our guest is the fascinating writer and thinker Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of the bestsellers The Black Swan and Antifragile. Taleb has been a hedge fund manager, a mathematician and professor of engineering, but he's found his widest influence as a thinker about risk, randomness and how they...