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Live: Randy Henderson Podcasts Bigfootloose and Finn Fancy Free
March 21, 2016

In this sequel to his acclaimed debut novel, Finn Fancy Necromancy, Finn Gramaraye is settling back into the real world after his twenty-five-year-long imprisonment in the otherworld of the Fey. But trouble always seems to follow Finn,

Live: Colten Moore Podcasts Catching the Sky
March 14, 2016

X-Games champion snowmobile racer Colton Moore reads from and discusses his memoir Catching the Sky, a transcendent story about risk and the pursuit of happiness, family, and the bond between brothers.

Live: Greg Jobin-Leeds Podcasts When We Fight, We Win
March 07, 2016

Same-sex marriage, #BlackLivesMatter, the DREAM Act, the People’s Climate March, End the New Jim Crow, Occupy Wall Street, the fight for a $15 minimum wage – these are just a few of the remarkable movements that have blossomed in the past decade,

Live: Tom LaMarr Podcasts Geezer Dad
February 29, 2016

The median age for starting a family has climbed, and Tom LaMarr is the reason. The Geezer Dad author was nearly 48 when he met his daughter, which makes him even older now. The story of one man’s transformation from career-minded guy who wasn’t comple...

Live: Stewart O’Nan Podcasts West of Sunset
February 22, 2016

O’Nan reads from and discusses the new paperback edition of his bestselling novel West of Sunset, his graceful, subtle, and and haunting novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s last years in Hollywood.

Live: Amy Cuddy Podcasts Presence
February 16, 2016

Amy Cuddy is a professor and researcher at Harvard Business School who studies how nonverbal behavior and snap judgments affect people. Her research has been published in top academic journals and covered by NPR, New York Times, Wired, Fast Company,

Live: Juan Thompson Podcasts Stories I Tell Myself: Growing Up with Hunter S. Thompson
February 08, 2016

Denver author Juan Thompson, who grew up in Woody Creek, Colorado with his father, Hunter S. Thompson, reads from and discusses his new memoir Stories I Tell Myself: Growing Up with Hunter S. Thompson.

Live: Chris Bohjalian Podcasts The Guest Room
February 02, 2016

“A good man’s momentary moral lapse plunges his happy, prosperous life into a nightmare of murderous gangsters and remorseless sex traffickers. Bohjalian’s deftness as a storyteller is on full display here,

Live: Adam Makos Podcasts Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice
January 25, 2016

A white New Englander from the country-club scene, Tom Hudner passed up Harvard to fly fighters for his country. An African American sharecropper’s son from Mississippi, Jesse Brown became the navy’s first black carrier pilot,

Live: Michel Roy Podcasts Patrick Roy: Winning, Nothing Else
January 18, 2016

An incredible hockey talent who was instrumental in changing the very art of goaltending, Patrick Roy’s success was driven as much by determination and perseverance as by talent. Patrick Roy: Winning. Nothing Else brings to life Roy’s phenomenal career...