Sep 28, 2020
Elizabeth Gowing is the author of five books and co-founder of The Ideas Partnership, an NGO which empowers and supports people in need in Kosovo in the fields of education, health and social welfare, and works on cultural heritage and protection of the environment, promoting a culture of volunteerism.
She runs training...
Sep 21, 2020
This week we have a very special treat: an author whose book was the subject of a previous episode is here to share her favorite book with us. Dawn Davies, who Denise Massar and I discussed in Episode 002, joined me today to talk about John Irving. We had completely different takes on this book, and the conversation...
Sep 14, 2020
Kenya Goree Bell is warm and bawdy and hilarious. She was exactly the person I needed to talk to in the middle of a rough week. We talked about reading romances when we were way too young to read them, and the joys of being proven wrong when we discover a romance trope we previously thought we hated. And she made me...
Sep 7, 2020
Libbie Hawker is one of my very favorite writers, and I was thrilled for the opportunity to have a good long book chat with her. We discovered a shared love of "atmospheric weirdness" in our books, and the fascinating sensory experience she has when reading and writing books. Libbie's favorite book, Dune, is a...