Kurt Andersen: The Breakup

On this episode of You Are What You Read, we are joined by New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis with her new novel, SAMANTHA: THE NEXT CHAPTER, the very first adult novel from American Girl and the next chapter of the beloved doll, Samantha Parkington.  It’s 1920, and 25-year-old Samantha Parkington is working hard to educate women in New York about suffrage and encourage them to vote in their first presidential election that fall. But when Samantha’s large inheritance, including her childhood Mount Bedford home, is stolen in a shocking scheme, she goes from socialite to shop girl overnight and experiences a very different side of New York City living in a boarding house. Searching for clues regarding the theft of her inheritance, she infiltrates the business of a notorious criminal in New York City. Determined as ever, Samantha will do whatever it takes to find answers and save her family’s legacy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today’s episode of You Are What You Read, we are joined by the one and only John Grisham with his latest, The French Illusion… a gripping, suspenseful novel about a Paris honeymoon that goes horribly wrong—and the nightmare that follows. John Grisham is the author of more than fifty #1 New York Times bestsellers, which have sold over 500 million copies in nearly fifty languages. He is a two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honored with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction. When he’s not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and of Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of You Are What You Read, we are joined by Sam Wasson, the renowned film historian and author of eight books, including The New York Times bestsellers Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman; The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood; and The Path To Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story. He is also the coauthor of Hollywood: The Oral History (with Jeanine Basinger). Sam is here today to talk about FRANK CAPRA, his latest extraordinary biography of the great American artist and filmmaker. Sam made full use, for the first time, of Capra’s own archives, including deeply personal writings from his later years, and has brought this seminal artist into urgent life. This book is a dazzling portrait of both a lost America and an enduring one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bonnie Garmus is back! On this week's episode of You Are What You Read, we are excited to welcome  the author of the blockbuster, Lessons in Chemistry, with her irresistible and delightful new novel, PECK & PECK. You all read Lessons in Chemistry: the Good Morning America Book Club Pick, a Goodreads Choice Best Book of the Year, one of Time magazine’s top 100 books of the 21st century, and the Apple TV limited series. PECK & PECK brings readers to the publishing world of 1980s New York City when a young man’s life turns upside down when he is hired by the most prestigious, secretive, and dysfunctional poetry journal in the world: the renowned Peck & Peck. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today’s episode of You Are What You Read, we are excited to welcome Ari Emanuel to the podcast with his New York Times bestselling memoir, ROLL THE CALLS. Ari Emanuel is one of Hollywood’s most accomplished, feared—and funny—dealmakers who has some stuff he wants to get off his chest… He is the CEO and Executive Chair of TKO, the Executive Chairman of WME Group, and the Founder and Principal Investor of MARI. As Hollywood’s best-known super-agent—the inspiration for “Ari Gold” in the classic TV drama Entourage—he’s paid to speak for his A-list clients, not himself. Now, for the first time, the agent, the mogul, the fero­cious power broker, speaks for himself, about himself, and about the game of life in ROLL THE CALLS. Listen to Ari's brother, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, on You Are What You Read: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/eat-your-ice-cream-a-conversation-with-dr-ezekiel-emanuel/id1707901821?i=1000747829685 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week’s episode of You Are What You Read, we are joined by bestselling author Kurt Andersen with his new novel, The Breakup. Kurt’s work includes: Evil Geniuses, Fantasyland and the novels True Believers, Heyday and Turn of the Century, among other books. He contributes to The New York Times and was host and co-creator of Studio 360, the Peabody Award–winning public radio show and podcast. Kurt also co-founded Spy magazine. In this conversation and in Kurt's novel, he offers us a portal into a different world, one overcoming crisis and division but ultimately still searching for hope. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today’s episode of You Are What You Read, we are thrilled to welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, Barbara Kingsolver, with her new novel, PARTITA. Barbara is the author of ten bestselling works of fiction, including the novels Unsheltered, The Bean Trees, The Poisonwood Bible, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Demon Copperhead. Barbara is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and has received the National Humanities Medal and, most recently, the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She is the founder of the Higher Ground Women’s Recovery Residence in Pennington Gap, Virginia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today’s episode of You Are What You Read, we are not only welcoming guest author Marlon James to the show, we are also welcoming his editor, and our dear friend, Jake Morrissey. Marlon and Jake are here to talk about Marlon’s new novel, The Disappearers, the electrifying story of the murder of a gay man in 1980s Jamaica and its far-reaching consequences. Marlon James is the Booker Prize–winning and New York Times bestselling author of A Brief History of Seven Killings and the bestselling and National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf. James has been named one of Time magazine’s one hundred most influential people in the world. His editor, Jake Morrissey, Executive Editor at Riverhead Books, co-hosts with James the podcast, Marlon & Jake Read Dead People. Jake also edits authors Anne Lamott, James McBride, and Daniel Pink, among others. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week's episode of You Are What You Read, we are joined by bestselling author Isabel Allende with her new book, Story Telling: A Writing Life. Isabel Allende is the author of over 30 books, having sold more than 80 million copies across 42 languages. You know her work: The Wind Knows My Name, Violeta, A Long Petal of the Sea, The House of the Spirits, Of Love and Shadows, Eva Luna, and Paula. Isabel has received fifteen honorary doctorates and has been inducted into the California Hall of Fame. She is the recipient of the PEN Center Lifetime Achievement Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award, the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation, and the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today on You Are What You Read, we are joined by the ultimate book lover and book advocate, my friend Zibby Owens. Zibby is an author, publisher, bookseller, podcaster, and a force in the world of books. She is the founder and CEO of Zibby Media, which brings all of this together in her empire: Zibby Publishing; Zibby’s Bookshop, her independent bookstore in Santa Monica; the award-winning daily podcast, Totally Booked with Zibby; Zibby’s Book Club; and Zibby Retreats for book lovers. Zibby’s new memoir, Between Chapters: How I Started Over, Took Some Chances and Found the Plot, just hit bookshelves, and she is here today to tell us all about it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices