Mary Roach, “the funniest science writer in the country” (Burkhard Bilger of The New Yorker), is the author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers and Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife. Her writing has appeared in such publications as Salon, GQ, Vogue, and the New York Times Magazine. Roach discusses her new book [...]

Frances Richey reads from and discusses The Warrior: A Mother’s Story of a Son at War, her stunning, urgent, and heart-wrenching memoir, written in verse, about a mother who sees her son, a Green Beret and captain in the Army, go off for two tours of duty in Iraq. The Warrior centers around a [...]

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley reads from and discusses the new paperback edition of her bestselling book Ten Days in the Hills. With its breathtaking passion and sexy irreverence, Ten Days in the Hills is “a blazing farce, a fiery satire of contemporary celebrity culture and a rich, simmering meditation on the price of [...]

Award-winning novelist Isabel Allende reads from and discusses her new book The Sum of Our Days, the sequel to her bestselling memoir Paula. In this heartfelt memoir, Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of tragic loss-the death of her daughter, Paula. Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor, [...]

Relationship expert and non-fiction author Lisa Daily reads from and discusses Fifteen Minutes of Shame, a hilarious debut novel that will delight fans of Jane Green and Sophie Kinsella. What happens when America’s favorite dating expert finds out on national television that her husband is cheating on her? Darby Vaughn’s fifteen minutes of fame [...]

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