Award winning science fiction author, activist, blogger and journalist Cory Doctorow discusses Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free, which takes on the state of copyright and creative success in the digital age.
Gretchen Rubin reads from and discusses her new book Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of our Everyday Lives, in which she tackles the critical question: How can we make good habits and break bad ones?
Cat Warren is a university professor and former journalist with an admittedly odd hobby: She and her German shepherd have spent the last seven years searching for the dead. Solo is a cadaver dog. What started as a way to harness Solo’s unruly energy and enthusiasm soon became a calling that introduced her to the hidden and fascinating universe of working dogs, their handlers, and their trainers.
Written with a precision that captures every emotion, every moment of fear, as each member of a family searches for answers after one goes missing, Descent is a perfectly crafted thriller that races like an avalanche toward its heart-pounding conclusion, and heralds the arrival of a master storyteller.
In her new book, Jennifer Chiaverini imagines the inner life of Julia Grant, beloved as a Civil War general’s wife and the First Lady, yet who grappled with a profound and complex relationship with the slave who was her namesake-until she forged a proud identity of her own.