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Bestselling Author Marie Benedict Knows History
Season 26 Episode 37
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 understoo…
7 months, 1 week ago
Best Writing Advice I’ve Ever Received from The Book Thief’s Markus Zusak
Season 26 Episode 36
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 edition and …
7 months, 1 week ago
An “It Girl” Worth Knowing with Allison Pataki
Season 26 Episode 35
Bestselling author Allison Pataki introduces us to yet another powerful woman forgotten in history in her latest historical novel, It Girl. Evelyn Ta…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
A Love Letter to a Former Teacher with Brian Platzer
Season 26 Episode 34
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 beloved teach…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Debut Fiction Based in New Mexico with Nancy Foley
Season 26 Episode 33
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 story abou…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Ruthie Rogers Sits Down with Celebs
Season 26 Episode 32
In Table 4 at The River Cafe, restaurant owner Ruthie Rogers shares conversations with her high-profile podcast guests including Paul McCartney, Davi…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Anna Quindlen’s Book Club
Season 26 Episode 31
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 which cen…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Alexandra Potter, a European Road Trip, and Two Bad Ass Women
Season 26 Episode 30
We published this “Thelma and Louise” meets “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” tale about a midlife recently catfished and humiliated woman and the young jour…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Midlife Reinvention Mixed with ‘90s Princeton University—and Running
Season 26 Episode 29
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 the 90s, ho…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Shocking News about Judy Blume with Mark Oppenheimer
Season 26 Episode 28
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 as I read…
7 months, 3 weeks ago