



Author Jonathan Hirsch on Squeezed
Juggling a demanding career and a young family is already overwhelming. But what happens when you add caring for an estranged parent to the equation? That’s exactly what happened to podcaster Jonathan Hirsch, author of The Mind is Burning, when his father Thomas was diagnosed with dementia. Jonatha…

Author Charlie Sheen on Fail Better with David Duchovny
Charlie Sheen is an actor perhaps known just as well for his off-screen antics as his on-screen performances. In his new memoir, The Book of Sheen, Charlie is finally coming clean on what was going on during his years of hard drugs, public divorces, and on-set disputes that came to define his later…

Author Tembi Locke on Podcrushed
Recently, the Podcrushed crew was joined by author and actor Tembi Locke. She takes them from her whirlwind childhood to her life today as a bestselling writer and performer. They talk about the heart behind her memoir From Scratch and her new audiobook Someday, Now, the rituals and traditions that…

Author Arundhati Roy on Talk Easy
“Sometimes I feel that I’m not going to write again,” says Arundhati Roy, “but then it becomes harder to keep quiet than to write it.” Few writers have bridged the personal and political as powerfully as Arundhati Roy. With her first memoir, fittingly titled Mother Mary Comes to Me, she turns to he…

Author Jen Hatmaker on Pulling the Thread
The hilarious Jen Hatmaker (New York Times–bestselling author and host of the podcast For the Love) joins Elise Loehnen on Pulling The Thread to chat, in part, about her new memoir Awake. They talk about the moment in Jen’s life when everything seemingly dissolved (including her marriage of 26 year…

How I Found Myself in the Midwest by Steve Grove
Right after turning forty, Steve Grove packed up his life in Silicon Valley and moved back to his home state of Minnesota. He is now the publisher and CEO of the Star Tribune newspaper, embarking on a reinvention for that longstanding publication that parallels his own. As he navigates all of it, G…

Great Black Hope by Rob Franklin
Great Black Hope opens on Labor Day weekend in the Hamptons, when police officers descend and arrest a young Black man named Smith for cocaine possession. In the blink of an eye, his life transforms from charmed to a nightmare. As he struggles to adjust to his changed reality, while also mourning t…

Aftertaste by Daria Lavelle
Kostya has a truly unique gourmet talent – he experiences vivid aftertastes, which he identifies (with some help from a ghost and a psychic) as tastes that are coming from the dead. Aftertaste, the buzzy debut novel by author Daria Lavelle, is like a mashup of the food-centric magical realism in Li…

My Friends by Fredrik Backman
My Friends, the highly anticipated new book from beloved Swedish novelist Fredrik Backman, delivers on all you’d expect from a Backman novel – richly drawn characters, poignant emotions, and clever turns of phrase. The book consists of two parallel narratives, united by a painting, and features a v…

The Mind is Burning by Jonathan Hirsch
In 2019, podcast executive Jonathan Hirsch was suddenly thrust into what’s known as the “sandwich generation” – that group of adults simultaneously caring for their children and their parents. And in this compelling new memoir, we learn that in caring for his father, Hirsch not only had the usual …