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Award winning songwriter, and New York Times best selling author Alice Randall and I discuss country music, banjos, and so much more!

Dr. James R Gregory and I discuss Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine as well as his advertising and branding career

Jacob Goldstein and I talk Joan Didion's "The White Album" and use it to fuel the ultimate NYC vs. LA debate

Poet Campbell McGrath gives advice to writers and reads some of his work from "Nouns and Verbs"

Parapsychologist Loyd Auerbach and I Talk Skeptics, Mediums, and How The Ghostbusters Helped His Career

Why We Should Actually Be Optimistic About The Environment with Environmentalist Adam Dorr

Environmental Scientist Adam Dorr and I discuss 10 Reasons Why We're Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than We Think in Hans Rosling's "Factfulness"

The Beatles Interesting Tie to Florida with Bob Kealing, the Sunshine State's Specialist

"The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read" and "Parenting On Earth" with moral and political philosopher Elizabeth Cripps

Should We Settle Outer Space? Rocket Scientist Erika Nesvold and I talk about capitalism and prison in space, mining astroids, and "The Sparrow" by Mary Doria Russell

Professor Chris Impey and I talk about "Wonderful Life" by Stephen Jay Gould and what we have wrong about scientific orthodoxy

Professor Chris Impey and I talk about habitable planets, Drake's equation, and Chris' book, "Worlds Without End"

Should Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita be removed from school lists? Stephen Mills and I discuss this and our personal encounters with sexual abuse

Laura Warrell is back to discuss Julia Otsuka's "The Swimmers" and the difficulty of writing in third person plural

PEN/Faulkner Award finalist Laura Warrell talks to us about her journey writing Sweet Soft Plenty Rhythm

I'm back with Katie Davis where we talk about Jake Ward's "The Loop" and how that relates to regression toward the mean

Katie Davis shares why giving your kids screens is doing more harm than good

I'm back with professor Nick Mirzoeff talking about cultural restitution and Dan Hick's Brutish Museums

NYU Professor and author, Nick Mirzoeff and I talk about whiteness, and white replacement from his book, White Sight

Tony Hiss shares why he's optimistic about Earth's future thanks to the Half-Earth project

I'm back with Laurie Loewenstein where we discuss Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

Laurie Loewenstein and I discuss the dust bowl and her book, Funeral Train

Professor Andrew Mangham is back to talk about Charles Dickens' Great Expectations

Professor Andrew Mangham and I discuss why we are all monsters

Writer and Psychotherapist David Santos Donaldson and I talk about his book Greenland as well as Seasons of Migration To The North

Sascha Rothchild and I discuss Madeline Miller's Circe

Screenwriter and author Sascha Rothchild and I discuss her book Blood Sugar

The extremely flexible writer and speaker, Etgar Keret and I talk about his work

Joe Meno and I discuss The Baron In The Trees by Italo Calvino

Joe Meno and I talk about staying positive, getting old, and his novel, Book Of Extraordinary Tragedies

Sergio Troncoso and I talk about his book Nobody's Pilgrims.

Sergio Troncoso and I talk about Huckleberry Finn... A kind of fucked up book that is definitely not for kids.

David E Hoffman and I talk about the most intense book I've ever read.

Ellis Cose and I discuss his book Race and Reckoning. It's a deep dive into the history of racism and slavery in the US, how close it is to us still, and how it still effects us.

The brilliant @EllisCose and I discuss the depressingly timely topic of Civil War. Barbra F Walter's book How Civil Wars Start and How To Stop Them.

Bonnie MacBird @macbird and I discuss her latest Sherlock Mystery: What Child is This.

Bonnie MacBird @macbird and I discuss A Gentleman In Moscow by Amor Towles

@byjacobward Jacob Ward and I discuss AI, Cold War rationality and his book The Loop live from the Miami Book Fair. #miamibookfair

Susan Rogers is a PhD as well as being the engineer and producer for many hit artists including Prince! We talk mostly about music.

@benmezrich and I talk about his new book The Midnight Ride. It's already #1 and you should read it. We also talk about Russian Oligarchs, Tech Billionaires and National Treasure.

The amazing @benmezrich and I talk about Bright Lights, Big City and about Hollywood.

@jessiwrites, Jessi Hempel and I talk about her book The Family Outing

@jessiwrites, Jessi Hempel and I talk about a Sarah Thankam Mathew's novel All This Could Be Different

@MikkaelSekeres and I talk about the fascinating history of the Food and Drug Administration and how Vaccines, i.e. COVID, get approved quickly.

@MikkaelSekeres and I discuss The Brief And Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

@benmattlin and I discuss his book Disability Pride.

BEST OF Miami Book Fair Guests

@benmattlin and I talk about disability rights.

Historian Robert K. Sutton and I talk about Nazis On The Potomac

Historian Robert K Sutton and I talk a lot about the Civil War and a little bit about Nazis.

Rodrigo Ribera d'Ebre and I talk about his book, The Displaced

Rodrigo Ribera d'Ebre and I discuss The Ultimate Stay At Home Dad by Shannon Carpenter

Poet and novelist Charles Harper Webb and I discuss his book Ursula Lake.

Poet and novelist Charles Harper Webb and I discuss THE BEST book I've read for the show. Fools Crow by James Welch. #jesusonpeyote

Playwright Kirk Lynn and I discuss Games: Agency as Art by C. Thi Nguyen @add_hawk

Caridad Moro-Gronlier and I discuss her book of Poems, Tortillera. @CaridadMoro1

We're Back with Caridad Moro-Gronlier! This episode we discuss Toni Morrison's amazing classic Song Of Solomon. @CaridadMoro1

The Amazing Richard Blanco, @rblancopoet and I talk about his book How To Love a Country. This book will make you cry... like in a good way.

The Amazing Richard Blanco, @rblancopoet , who wrote and performed the inaugural poem for @BarackObama in 2012, Discusses Blud by @RachelMcKibbens

I discuss how reefs turn sunlight into rocks with Sandy Sheehy

Dude, Shells are so cool! Sandy Sheehy and I discuss Cynthia Barnett's book about conchology: a cool word I just learned.

Lou Mathews and I talk about his book, Shaky Town. This is a great story for authors trying to get their work out there.

Lou Mathews, a Los Angeles writing legend, and I talk about Leonard Gardner's Fat City

Ruth Behar and I talk about her touching book Letters From Cuba

Ruth Behar and I discuss The Hundred Dresses by Elenor Estes. We end up talking a lot about bullying.

Catherine Wolff answers for 2000 years of Catholic crimes... and talks about her book Beyond: How Humankind Thinks About Heaven

Catherine Wolff and I talk about Timothy Egan's book A Pilgrimage to Eternity

Edwidge Danticat and I talk about A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid

Mark Schatzker and I discuss his book The End of Craving. Why do humans eat so much? @MarkSchatzker explains.

Mark Schatzker and I discuss Charles Portis's classic True Grit.

Carrie Fountain Talks About Her Book -The Life-

Carrie Fountain - God Of Nothingness, Mark Wunderlich

Ken Miller - The Thousand Autumns Of Jacob De Zoet, David Mitchell

Vinod Busjeet - Silent Winds, Dry Seas

Vinod Busjeet - Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt

Meghan O'Gieblyn - God, Human, Animal, Machine

Meghan O'Gieblyn - The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bi-Cameral Mind, By Julian Jaynes

Russ Choma - Wandering Through Winter, Edwin Way Teale

Paulette Steeves - The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere

Paulette C. Steeves - Poet Warrior, Joy Harjo

Maria Amparo Escandon - LA Weather

Maria Amparo Escandon - Pedro Paramo, Juan Rulfo - LA Weather

Peter Mancall - Of Plymouth Plantation, William Bradford

Eric Nusbaum - Shaky Town, Lou Mathews

2021 Roundup Special

Wayne Federman - Atomic Habits by James Clear

Denise Hamilton - Speculative Los Angeles

Denise Hamilton - They Shoot Horses Don't They, Horace McCoy

Jane Smiley - Perestroika In Paris

Jane Smiley - Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens

Kathie Klarreich - Hear Us

Maggie Smith - Goldenrod

Maggie Smith - The Life, Carrie Fountain

Tiokasin Ghosthorse - The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere, Pauette F.C. Steeves

Joshua Jay - How Magicians Think

Joshua Jay - How Music Works, David Byrne

Joie Davidow - Smoke by Ivan Turgenev

Lisa Bitel - The Tain - Irish Epic

Angus Fletcher Part 2 - Wonderworks

Angus Fletcher Part 1- Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell