My guest is artist and singer Melissa Newman, one of the 5 daughters of actor Paul Newman who died in 2008. She spoke with me about her dad’s posthumous memoir, “PAUL NEWMAN, The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man.” It […]
Booktalk: Futurist Ari Wallach’s “LONGPATH. Becoming the Great Ancestors Our Future Needs”
LONGPATH by futurist Ari Wallach is about a mindset that looks at the future where new ways aren’t quite here yet and the old ways don’t work anymore. Drawing on history, theology, neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, and social technologies, Wallach teaches […]
Journalist Ted Conover’s “CHEAP LAND COLORADO: Off-Gridders at America’s Edge”
“I feel lucky to do what I do. I write about real people, often by living their lives for a while—visiting their lives, you might say. Trying them on for size. Though there are easier ways to make a living, […]
Longtime Runner-Author Writes A Book For Runners About Running (And An Incredible, Running Donkey)
Chris McDougall’s “Running with Sherman: The Donkey with the Heart of a Hero” introduces us to a small farm in rural Pennsylvania and the McDougall family and their menagerie (donkeys, rams, chickens, fainting goats) who live there. The author’s new […]
Booktalk: Jason Kander’s “Invisible Storm. A Soldier’s Memoir of Politics and PTSD”
With INVISIBLE STORM, Jason Kander has written the book he himself needed in his darkest moments of PTSD. After Afghanistan, his day job was politics as a rising star in the Democratic party, first in his native Missouri and then […]
Booktalk: Thriller writer Robert Crais, author of “Racing the Light: An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel”
Private investigator Elvis Cole and his enigmatic partner Joe Pike are back on the case in this 23rd novel, RACING THE LIGHT, by Robert Crais whose thrillers have been translated into 42 languages. Adele Schumacher isn’t a typical worried mom. […]
Booktalk: Candice Millard’s “River of the Gods. Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile”
RIVER OF THE GODS by bestselling historian Candice Millard is her fourth book. Known for her meticulously researched books, her newest is an adventure tale that takes place in uncharted territory in Africa in the mid-1800s. For millennia the location […]
Booktalk: British mystery writer Richard Osman’s The Bullet That Missed (#3 in Thursday Murder Club series)
Richard Osman is an author, a well-known television personality and comedian in the UK. His newest book is The Bullet That Missed in the popular “Thursday Murder Club” series that has already sold in the millions. A quartet of […]