Episode Details

It's an Oprah’s Book Club special! The celebrity mogul’s book club is turning 30, so we’re sharing two of our twin picks — books and authors both Callie and Oprah have featured on their shows.

First, we have Callie’s 2020 conversation with Robert Kolker; author of “Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family,” a nonfiction account of the Galvin family, in which six of the 12 children had schizophrenia.

Then we have Callie’s 2018 conversation with Tayari Jones about her book, “An American Marriage,” a novel about a young couple separated by mass incarceration after the husband is wrongly accused. It’s the first time we had Tayari on the show; we had her again this past spring for her latest novel, “Kin,” which was also selected for Oprah’s book club.

After each interview, we have short updates we recorded this summer giving us more insight into what it was like for Robert and Tayari to be selected by Oprah, how it changed the trajectory of their books and careers, and what they’re up to now.