Interviews & Live Events

Available only in audio, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - Makers, Mysteries and Magic lifts the lid on the moviemaking secrets behind the latest installment in J.K. Rowling's Fantastic Beasts series....

The Pulitzer Prize-winning Jennifer Egan and best-selling Celeste Ng come together for a compelling discussion of their new novels, Manhattan Beach and Little Fires Everywhere....

It's easy to feel insecure around art and its appreciation, as though we cannot enjoy certain artworks if we don't have a lot of academic and historical knowledge....

Mr. Rushdie reads from his newest novel, Shalimar the Clown....

In honor of the release of the concluding installment in the Neapolitan Novels, John Waters, Amy Ryan, Sonali Deraniyagala, Elizabeth Strout, Judith Thurman, and Parul Sehgal celebrate the author....

What would life be like if you believed that every crisis is a blessing, that you're guided to meet the people who cross your path, and that everything happens for a reason....

Amor Towles joins us for an evening of conversation with Liesl Schillinger on this thrilling new work. With a reading by Tony Award-winning actor Boyd Gaines....

Everyone has a story. The following interview is taken from the best of Andrew Denton's award-winning Enough Rope series....

New Yorker essayist Adam Gopnik and sociologist Malcolm Gladwell revisit their debates about healthcare, education, media, and a variety of other subjects....

Enjoy a collection of interviews featuring Elvis Presley from 1955 to 1977. A fantastic insight into the life of the King of Rock and Roll....

Dubbed "the poet laureate of medicine" by The New York Times, Dr. Oliver Sacks is one of the great medical writers and storytellers of our time....

P. D. James was a best-selling crime writer whose Adam Dalgliesh mysteries were popular with the public and critics alike....

Here is an audiobook of the hugely successful Josephine Hart Poetry Hours at the British Library....

Over the course of his 60 years, Christopher Hitchens has been a citizen of both the United States and the United Kingdom....

At the age of 18, Iceberg Slim was initiated into "the life". Predominately in Chicago, he was incarcerated several times for pimpng, along with several other crimes....

One in every 100 people in the United States is affected by the autoimmune condition called Celiac Disease. And 97 percent of them are undiagnosed....

Anthony Bourdain, Gabrielle Hamilton, and Eric Ripert are all well established, accomplished chefs. Here, they share their early cooking experiences and what made them want to be chefs forever....

These never-before-published interviews with Jerry Garcia reveal his thoughts on religion, politics, his personal life, and his creative process....

The best-selling author of Uglies discusses his latest series - which takes readers on a fantastical adventure around the world, set in an alternate-history World War I....

Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College....

Equally comedic and insightful, Letting Go of God is Julia Sweeney's brilliant one-woman show about her struggle with her faith....

Author Zadie Smith discusses her much-anticipated third novel....

Lisey's Story is Stephen King's most personal and powerful novel. In this special event, recorded live at Symphony Space in New York, King is interviewed by Irish novelist John Connolly.....

It's a curious homecoming for Vince, the son nobody seems to remember....

Ken Follett presents a detailed account of the thriller's place in history and literature....

If you are driving, pull over. If you are at work, close your door, unless you don't mind your colleagues seeing you doubled over, in tears, on your office floor...

Edward P. Jones's first book, the story collection Lost in the City, won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award....