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Nov 20, 2023

Guest Kristal Brent Cook is a journalism professor at Hofstra and author of a new memoir called The Girl in the Yellow Poncho. Growing up in the 80s as a bi-racial child, Zook was raised by Black women after she was abandoned by her white father when she was a baby. The memoir explores Kristal’s journey to find her...


Oct 11, 2022

Have you ever heard of the Enneagram? It's a tool that breaks down personalities into nine types. Guest Dani Abernathy believes it can help reveal your motivations and your fears—and explain why you do the things you do. Dani is a fantasy fiction author and book coach. She swears by the Enneagram, believing it has...


May 11, 2021

How does a writer find their voice? If you're bestselling novelist Emma Straub, you let it find you. Emma is the author of four novels, including her latest All Adults Here, a funny and keenly perceptive novel about a dysfunctional family in a small town in upstate New York. She talks about her upbringing in Manhattan...


Feb 27, 2021

Elizabeth LaBan is the bestselling author of five novels and one nonfiction book, including Beside HerselfNot Perfect, The Restaurant Critic's Wife, and The Tragedy Paper, which has been translated into eleven languages. She's also a former high school classmate. We learned to write under the watchful eye of...


Feb 16, 2021

Can meditation help you become a kinder, calmer, and happier person? Does regular practice help you become a better writer? These are some of the questions posed to master meditator Sharon Salzberg. Sharon is the co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society and author of several bestselling books on...