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I remember reading The Help in 2009 when it came out and absolutely loving it! Back then I was a stay-at-home mom of twins under age two. To...

Dr. Tara Narula gives us a specific recipe in The Healing Power of Resilience: A New Prescription for Health and Well-Being , while editor J...

Jessica George takes on female friendship in her sophomore novel Love by the Book , which follows her hit Maame, which we also talked about...

Marisa Renee Lee shares her battle with long Covid on top of her other excruciating losses in Waiting for Dawn: Living with Uncertainty. We...

I had the immense honor of interviewing Rachel Goldberg-Polin about her book When We See You Again . Rachel, USA Today's Woman of the Year a...

Yes, Sally Hepworth and I spoke about her new novel, Mad Mabel , which features an older, quirky protagonist whose neighbor dies in the open...

I’ve been a fan of actress and bestselling author Annabelle Gurwitch since I first read You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up. I’ve interviewed her...

Hear from two amazing women authors who have survived loss and learned to live with it by finding humor in the darkest times. Screenwriter A...

Actress Gina Gershon takes us through the unexpected, entertaining steps to becoming a star and the attitude it takes to do so in her memoir...

I touched base with Little Free Library CEO Daniel Gumnit about how to promote literacy, why stories are best when shared, and exactly how t...

Bestselling memoirist Wade Rouse shares about his first novel, That’s What Friends Are For, inspired by “The Golden Girls.” In crafting humo...

Founder of Nowhere Bookshop is anywhere but nowhere. She’s a guru. Jenny Lawson has written book after book about her mental health, obstacl...

Christina Geist , bestselling children’s book author and brand guru, wrote Before You Fly Away: Life Lessons from Home, a beautifully illust...

Australian author Emma Grey’s The Last Love Note kicked off Emma’s journey with our publishing house. I read the PDF on a flight when her ag...

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How to Survive in the Woods by Kat Rosenfield is truly hard to put down. Three friends go in the woods where two of them plot against the th...

Join Blair Glaser as she journeys into herself and goes from NYC and LA to a special yoga retreat in This Incredible Longing: How I Found My...

Literary ingenue J.R. Thornton takes us into the posh world of Harvard College from dorm rooms and classrooms to parties and more when an ou...

First, get the context for today’s political climate with Yardena Schwartz, Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignite...

I loved interviewing Allegra Goodman several times on my show for her novels Sam and Isola . Her latest book This is Not About Us was a Zibb...

Who doesn’t know legendary actress Tovah Feldshuh?! (If you don’t, now you will!) Tovah, the subject of an upcoming documentary which just p...

I spoke to Matti Friedman right before the war with Iran began. He remarked that he and his family couldn’t make any plans as they waited to...

We’ve gone through a multi-year slime phase in our house, much to the dismay of our kitchen table. When we discovered there was basically an...

I like to think of Marie Benedict as my midlife history professor; every novel she writes teaches me more about periods of time I thought I...

Do you remember The Book Thief? It came out twenty years ago and was a massive bestseller. It was just re-released as a 20th anniversary edi...

Bestselling author Allison Pataki introduces us to yet another powerful woman forgotten in history in her latest historical novel, It Girl....

Brian Platzer’s novel The Optimists was just reviewed in the New York Times Book Review . I interviewed him live at the Whitby about his bel...

Want to travel to the Southwest? I Am Agatha by debut author Nancy Foley takes us there. Inspired by her grandmother’s past, Nancy wrote a s...

In Table 4 at The River Cafe , restaurant owner Ruthie Rogers shares conversations with her high-profile podcast guests including Paul McCar...

Ever wondered what a fictitious book club would look like in Anna Quindlen’s mind? Enter More Than Enough, her latest powerhouse of a novel...

We published this “Thelma and Louise” meets “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” tale about a midlife recently catfished and humiliated woman and the y...

If you’re in the mood to commiserate with a couple of close friends about the indignities of aging, love in midlife, life at Princeton in th...

In Mark Oppenheimer’s new biography about Judy Blume , he reveals a number of surprising things, so much that I kept leaning over to my kids...

Aren’t teachers the best? When I found out that Ani Katz (“Miss Katz”), my kids’ former teacher, wrote another novel, Haven , I had to invit...

You might know Deborah Goodrich Royce for the amazing summer author series she hosts at the hotel she co-owns with her husband the Ocean Hou...

I interviewed the one and only Joan Lunden live in front of an audience for this very special discussion about her career as a longtime GMA...

Trying something new here! I interviewed three women authors on the same day whose novels took me through the full spectrum of motherhood —...

Focus Features was kind enough to offer me the chance to host a screening of the new film “Midwinter Break,” which many of you in my communi...

I loved these poems by Jessica Urlichs so much that I ended up reading some to my son. Somehow, they take the unwieldy, much-discussed exper...

Mimi Nichter was an American teenager returning from a summer in Israel on September 6th, 1970 when the plane she was on was hijacked. She w...

Congratulations to author Zeeva Bukai for winning a National Jewish Book Award from the Jewish Book Council for her novel The Anatomy of Exi...

I’m hooked. Somehow, I’d never read Elizabeth Day’s books until her latest, One of Us, a smart look at relationships, cancel culture, and mo...

Who knew?!! Well, apparently, senior correspondent for CBS News Norah O’Donnell did. In her book, We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped...

Author Charleen Hurtubise paints a picture of a woman reinvented. We meet Saoirse on an airplane, faking her identity with a friend’s passpo...

Sometimes you just click with someone. By the end of my in-person interview with Israeli poet Rachel Tzvia Back, we were hugging — having la...

I am obsessed with the TV show “The Middle” starring Patricia Heaton, Eden Sher, and an all-star cast. It ran for nine years starting in 200...

This Book Made Me Think of You , an instant USA Today Bestseller by top UK author Libby Page, is an ode to bookstores, an ode to love, and a...

Jennifer Reid, MD, author of Guilt Free , has the answers. For those of us who feel guilty about almost everything having to do with parenti...

Wall Street Journal journalist Francesca Fontana shares her surprising journey of researching her own father’s jail time, crimes, and friend...

I interviewed Gillian Deacon in person at Totally Booked: Live about her book A Love Affair with the Unknown . Both the guests and I were ri...