Elissa Washuta

On this week’s episode, actress Jamie Lynn Sigler joins us to discuss And So It Is…: A Memoir of Acceptance and Hope (Harper, May 5). Kirkus: “A memoir of pain, recovery, and, of course, an enduring classic TV series.” And in a sponsored interview, author Jeff Gottesfeld and illu ...  Show more

On this week’s episode, No. 1 New York Times bestselling crime novelist Patricia Cornwell joins us to discuss True Crime: A Memoir (Grand Central Publishing, May 5). “The life of a hugely popular crime novelist has been full of outsized violations and blessings,” Kirkus writes in ...  Show more

In this week’s episode, Kendra talks with Elissa Washuta the author of White Magic, which out now from Tin House Thanks to our sponsors! Go to AncientNutrition.com right now and enter promo code readingwomen at checkout. Go to Acorn.tv and use the code ReadingWomen to get your ...  Show more

<span>Clare Sestanovich joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “</span>The Moons of Jupiter<span>” by Alice Munro, which was published in<span> </span></span>The New Yorker<span><span ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author and philosopher Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999). In her lifetime she was most celebrated for her novels such as The Bell and The Black Prince, but these are now sharing the spotlight with her philosophy. Responding to the horrors of the Secon ...  Show more

It's gonna be a busy spring! On this week’s episode, Gilbert Cruz talks with Tina Jordan and Joumana Khatib about some of the upcoming books they’re anticipating most keenly over the next several months.

Books discussed in this week’s episode:

“Knife,” by Salman Ru ...