Gabriel Urza ("All That Followed") joins the show. We discuss Gabriel's powerful debut novel that explores how startling situations unfold... more

Chris Field and Katharine Mach from the Carnegie Institution for Science - Department of Global Ecology at Stanford join the show.... more

Nick Berardini (Director of KILLING THEM SAFELY) joins the show. We discuss his new documentary that explores how a seemingly... more

Jonathan Kirshner (Cornell University, "Urban Flight") joins the show. We welcome Jonathan back to the program to discuss his novel... more

Antony Loewenstein (Independent Journalist, "Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe") joins the show. We discuss how disaster capitalism... more

Helen Phillips (Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Brooklyn College, "The Beautiful Bureaucrat") joins the show. We discuss her novel... more

Matt Lewis ("Last Man Off: A True Story of Disaster and Survival on the Antarctic Seas") joins the show. We discuss... more

James Shapiro ("The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606, Columbia University) joins the show. We discuss how William Shakespeare managed... more

J.S. Law ("Tenacity") joins the show. We discuss his debut novel about a recently reassigned female investigator trying to solve... more

Judith Viorst ("Wait for Me: And Other Poems About the Irritations and Consolations of a Long Marriage") joins the show.... more