All Episodes

Sue Monk Kidd author of "The Invention of Wings"

Gary Shteyngart author of Little Failure

Wil S. Hylton author of "Vanished - A Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II"

J. Michael Lennon Author of "Norman Mailer - A Double Life"

Phoenixville Rising - Avid Reader Interviews author Rob Cadigan

My Mistake-A Memoir by Daniel Menaker - The Avid Reader Show

Brothers Emanuel by Ezekiel J. Emanuel

Kristina Morgan author of "Mind Without a Home: A Memoir of Schizophrenia"

Kelly A. Barson author of "45 Pounds (More or Less)"

Emily Croy Barker author of The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic

Anthony Marra author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

Nathanial Rich author of Odds Against Tomorrow

Lauren Groff author of Arcadia

Jeff Noon author of Vurt

Mary Roach author of Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

Hugh Howey author of Wool

Shalom Auslander author of Hope: A Tragedy

George Saunders - Tenth of December

Ramona Ausubel author of No One Is Here Except All Of Us

At the Mouth of the River of Bees: Stories by Kij Johnson

Interview with Rachel Kushner author of "The Flamethrowers"

Interview with Claire Vaye Watkins author of "Battleborn"

Interview with Lawrence Krauss author of "A Universe From Nothing"

Interview with B.A. Shapiro author of "The Art Forger"

Interview with David Finch author of "Journal of Best Practices: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome and One Man’s Quest to Be a Better Husband"

Interview with A.M. Homes author of "May We Be Forgiven"

Interview with Carol Anshaw author of "Carry The One"

Interview with Jon Ronson author of "Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries"

Interview with David Abrams author of "FOBBIT"

Interview with Craig Brown author of "Hello, Goodbye, Hello"

Interview with author Sadie Stein: "The Paris Review: Object Lessons"

Interview with Justin Torres author of "We The Animals"

Broadcast with Don Lee, author of "The Collective"

Interview with Peter Heller author of "The Dog Stars"

Interview with Sam Kean, author of "The Violinist Thumb"

Interview with Charles Yu , author of "Sorry Please Thank You"

Interview with Christopher McDougall author of "Born to Run"

Interview with Karen Thompson Walker, author of "The Age of Miracles"

Interview with Chris Cleave, author of "Gold"

Interview with April Bernard author of "Miss Fuller"

Interview with April Bernard author of "Miss Fuller"

Interview with Jess Walter author of "Beautiful Ruins"

Interview with Gillian Flynn author of "Gone Girl"

Interview with Alice LaPlante author of "Turn of Mind"

Interview with Stephen Greenblatt author of "The Swerve"

Interview with Susan Cain author of "Quiet"

Interview with Tom Standage author of "An Edible History of Humanity"

Interview with Ernest Cline author of " Ready Player One"

Interview with Jennifer Egan author of "A Visit from the Goon Squad"

Interview with Lionel Shriver author of "The New Republic"

Interview with Joshua Foer author of "Moonwalking With Einstein"

Interview with Dana Spiotta author of "Stone Arabia"

Interview with Stewart O'Nan author of "The Odds" and "Emily, Alone"

Interview with Audrey Schulman author of "3 Weeks in December"

Interview with Liz Moore author of "Heft"

Interview with Adam Wilson author of "Flatscreen"

Interview with Margot Livesey author of "The Flight of Gemma Hardy"

Interview with Eleanor Brown author of "The Weird Sisters"

Ben Marcus - The Flame Alphabet

Adam Johnson - The Orphan Master's Son

Interview with Alex Gilvarry author of "From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant"

Ryan Boudinot author of Blueprints of the Afterlife

Jill McDevitt - Fighting The Crusade Against Sex

Alexis Smith author of Glaciers

American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar

Julia Scheeres, author of A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown

Diana Abu Jaber, author of Birds Of Paradise

Anne Enright, author of The Forgotten Waltz

Mitchell Zuckoff, author of Lost In Shangri La

James Reeves, author of The Road To Somewhere

Lisa Genova, author of Left Neglected

Ransom Riggs, author of Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children

Michael Byers, author of Percival's Planet

Nina Burleigh, author of The Fatal Gift Of Beauty

Jerry Blavat, author of You Only Rock Once

Lev Grossman, author of The Magician King

Amor Towles, author of "Rules Of Civility"

Stefan Merrill Block author of The Storm At The Door

Lily King author of Father of the Rain

Michael Sims author of E.B. White, The Story of Charlotte's Web

Kate Christensen author of The Astral

David J. Linden author of The Compass of Pleasure..

Craig Johnson author of Hell is Empty

Erik Larson author of The Devil in the White City..

Geraldine Brooks author of Caleb's Crossing

Jean Thompson author of The Year We Left Home

Alice Ozma author of The Reading Promise

Adam Haslett author of Union Atlantic

Peter Mountford author of A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism

Arthur Phillips author of The Tragedy of Arthur

Lionel Shriver author of So Much for That

Jonathan Evison author of West of Here

David Halperin author of Journal of a UFO Investigator

Bradford Morrow author of Diviner's Tale

Justin Kramon author of Finny

Téa Obreht author of The Tiger's Wife

Karen Russell author of Swamplandia!

Kim Edwards author of The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Michael Sims author of Adam's Naval

Tracy Kidder author of Strength in What Remains