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My guest Jennifer Kabay described the memoir: Burroughs is a high-paid professional and RAGING alcoholic. Like—bad. Like stinking up the elevator with gin seeping from his pores bad. And from page 1 you’re sucked into his personal cocktail of lies, shame, co-dependency, and self-destruction. Maybe it’s my toxic trait to find these memoirs utterly fascinating. But really, I want to understand. Beca...

"She was the one among them who ruined his hate for them." In t his amazing, joyous best seller, James McBride considers hate and the forces that ruin it in a small Pennsylvania town. Chris Gardner joined me to explore this novel.

Jayne Anne Phillips' powerful novel weaves an account of a little-known Korean War atrocity with the struggles of a West Virginia family. Dr. Jaime Mejia was my guest.

What's the difference between the law and justice? Michael Nelson Miller talked with me about his compelling new mystery novel, The Two Deaths of Father Romero: A Novel of the Borderlands.

Eight (or is it nine?) translators in a primeval Polish forest in search of a missing author, complete with ghosts and flammable mushrooms. Brandon Beck and I explore this compelling, mysterious novel by translator Jennifer Croft.

Small Acts of Courage chronicles the history of Velshi’s family and their migrations from India to South Africa to Kenya to Canada. Throughout, Velshi uses their experience to reflect on what it means to be a citizen—what happens when some people are denied full participation in a society, the best way to strive for full participation, and the responsibilities that go along with citizenship. Dr. R...

Garrie Borden and I explored Celeste Ng's powerful novel, depicting a dystopian America that's way too much like this one.

Listen to a conversation with author David Meischen about his lyrical short story collection "Nopalito, Texas"--a compassionate look at the secret longings beneath the surface of life in a small Texas town.

Listen in for a conversation with San Marcos author Debbie Roppolo about her very funny take on family life and her award-winning children's books.

55 pages into this dark, compelling 1963 mystery , one word changes everything! Mystery enthusiast Joan Worley joined me to explore this fascinating example of West Coast Noir.

How do we remain hopeful in the face of ongoing injustice? a conversation with San Antonio Express-News columnist Cary Clack about his powerful new book, More Finish Lines to Cross: Notes on Race, Redemption, and Hope.

This wonderfully subtle novella reveals the adult world through a child's eyes, revealing layers of meaning within everyday life. Chris Gardner explored those layers with me.

What happens when an Irish photographer and a Jewish medical student fall wildly in love as their country moves inexorably towards war? Author Anna Bliss talks with me about her compelling debut novel, which opens in 1936 and Nazi sympathizers march through the heavily Jewish East End of London.

Call the Midwife is based on this wrenching memoir that takes you on a lice-infested, thin-blanket journey into the London workhouse. You’re cold. Sick. Unemployed. Your 9 children starving. Where else do you go? Better than the streets, surely. But residents tell a different story. So come. Join flies, fleas, and roaches on stony walls as Nurse Jenny bears witness. At least you won’t be alone. 

Global warming is already doing major damage. Why are we ignoring it? Dr Rebecca Bell-Metereau and I explore David Wallace-Wells' scary, beautifully written book.

It's a best-seller that's become a TV series and a graphic novel, but no one is completely sure of the author's identity. Garrie Borden and I ponder the power of this compelling novel.

Chris Gardner joined me for a discussion of Barbara Kingsolver's brilliant contemporary re-imagining of the Dickens classic "David Copperfield," a profoundly moving examination of poverty, addiction, and resilience in the face of injustice!

The novel features two settings—South China in the late 18-early 19 hundreds, and a futuristic North America between 2044 and 2062. In this world, apparently run by corporations, people live either in walled communities like “Serendipity” or in the dangerous “unregulated zone.” The North American protagonist narrator, Miranda, might be a reincarnation of the South China protagonist narrator, Nu Wa...

Priscilla interviews local San Marcos author Elizabeth Crook on her novel The Madstone . 

A community reading of the Charles Dickens classic "A Christmas Carol" from the KZSM studios in San Marcos, Texas.