Episodes
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Author Julie Buntin (Marlena) returns to the show and chats with Daniel Ford about her latest novel Famous Men.
To learn more about Julie Buntin, visit her official website and listen to our Friday Morning Coffee interview with the author.
This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm and the Is It Streaming podcast.
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Host Caitlin Malcuit discusses a UN Women's report about how war impacts women and girls. "Bombs do not discriminate between men and women, but the consequences of war do," the report reads.
Then, author, journalist, and professor Helen Benedict chats with Daniel Ford about her book The Soldier's House.
To learn more about Helen Benedict, visit her official website.
This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm and the Is It Streaming podcast.
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Author and journalist Tim Brown joins Daniel Ford on the show to discuss his book Nolan: The Singular Life of an American Original.
To learn more about Tim Brown, visit his official website.
This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm and the Is It Streaming podcast.
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Author Jenny Jackson returns and chats with Daniel Ford about her latest novel The Shampoo Effect.
To learn more about Jenny Jackson, visit her official website. Also listen to our first interview with the author in Episode 572.
This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm and the Is It Streaming podcast.
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Welcome to Author-poolza 2026!
We're joined by a trio of authors who felt like a complete set, so we decided to include them all in one episode.
Best-selling author Louise Fein chats about her novel Book of Forbidden Words (2:44). We're then joined by Kara McDowell, author of her adult fiction debut The Write Off (25:24). Our third and final guest is Edith Forbes, author of The Lawnmower Lady (46:44).
This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm and the Is It Streaming podcast.
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Host Caitlin Malcuit discusses Roberta Smith and Jerry Saltz's "House of Criticism" documentary and the current, troubled state of criticism and journalism.
Then, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Sarah L. Kaufman joins Daniel Ford to chat about her book Verb Your Enthusiasm.
To learn more about Sarah L. Kaufman, visit her official website.
This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm and the Is It Streaming podcast.
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Author Ben Fountain (Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, Devil Makes Three) returns to the show and chats with Daniel Ford about his latest novel Rasputin Sails the Potomac.
To learn more about Ben Fountain, visit his official website. Also listen to our first conversation with the author in Episode 623.
This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm and the Is It Streaming podcast.
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Author Caroline Kepnes returns to the show and chats with Daniel Ford about You First, the latest installment in the Joe Goldberg series.
To learn more about Caroline Kepnes, visit her official website. Also listen to our past interviews with the author in Episode 583 and Episode 297.
This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm and the Is It Streaming podcast.
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Friday Morning Coffee host Caitlin Malcuit discusses how Swords into Plowshares is reclaiming bronze melted down from Confederate monuments and the three finalists to replace the Robert E. Lee statue in Virginia.
Author and architect Michael P. Murphy then joins Daniel Ford to chat about his book Our World in Ten Buildings: How Architecture Defines Who We Are and How We Live.
To learn more about Michael P. Murphy, visit his official website.
This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm and the Is It Streaming podcast.
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Author Nicole Blades (Have You Met Nora?, The Thunder Beneath Us) returns to the show and chats with Daniel Ford about her latest novel Would I Lie to You?
To learn more about Nicole Blades, visit her official website and listen to our past interviews with the author in Episode 377 and Episode 234.
This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm and the Is It Streaming podcast, the newest addition to the Writer's Bone Podcast Network.
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Author and journalist Kate Crane joins Daniel Ford for a powerful conversation about her book What Ever Happened to Eddy Crane?
To learn more about Kate Crane, visit her official website.
This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm and the Is It Streaming podcast, the newest addition to the Writer's Bone Podcast Network.
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Author Dimitry Elias Léger (God Loves Haiti) returns to the show and chats with Daniel Ford about his latest novel Death of the Soccer God.
To learn more about Dimitry Elias Léger, listen to our past interview with the author in Episode 67 and read our first print interview with him!
This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm and the Is It Streaming podcast, the newest addition to the Writer's Bone Podcast Network.
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Author, screenwriter, director, and "Twin Peaks" co-creator Mark Frost joins Caitlin Malcuit on Friday Morning Coffee to discuss his new book The Yankee Sphinx.
We also give hearty congratulations to Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown for her 2026 Pulitzer Prize special citation for her reporting on Jeffrey Epstein in her Perversion of Justice series. The Pulitzer Prize board writes that Brown "went on to document and give voice to the scores of victims who had been groomed and abused by him and others in his circle. Her work, and the release of the government's Epstein files, continue to reverberate around the world." Read our interview with her way back in 2014.
To learn more about Mark Frost, visit his official website.
This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm and the Is It Streaming podcast, the newest addition to the Writer's Bone Podcast Network.
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Author Rachel Khong joins Daniel Ford on the show to discuss her short story collection My Dear You.
To learn more about Rachel Khong, visit her official website.
This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm and the Is It Streaming podcast, the newest addition to the Writer's Bone Podcast Network.
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Author and journalist Jeffrey Kluger returns to the show and chats with Daniel Ford about his book Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon, the Untold Story.
To learn more about Jeffrey Kluger, read his work with Time magazine. Also listen to our first interview with the author in Episode 193.
This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm and the Is It Streaming podcast, the newest addition to the Writer's Bone Podcast Network.
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Author Allison LaMothe joins Daniel Ford on the show to discuss her debut mystery Dirty Metal.
To learn more about Allison LaMothe, visit her official website.
This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm and the Is It Streaming podcast, the newest addition to the Writer's Bone Podcast Network.
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Host Caitlin Malcuit discusses Reed Peggram's Boston connections and his niece Debra Farrar-Parkman's docudrama "The Final Letter: Reed Peggram's Harrowing Quest to Belong."
Author Ethelene Whitmire then talks with Daniel Ford about her book The Remarkable Life of Reed Peggram.
To learn more about Ethelene Whitmire, visit her official website.
This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm and the Is It Streaming podcast, the newest addition to the Writer's Bone Podcast Network.
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Author Tolani Akinola joins Daniel Ford on the show to discuss her debut novel Leave Your Mess at Home.
To learn more about Tolani Akinola, visit her official website.
This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm and the Is It Streaming podcast, the newest addition to the Writer's Bone Podcast Network.
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Author and journalist Molly Knight joins Daniel Ford on the show to chat about the start of the 2026 Major League Baseball season, her Substack The Long Game, and building a non-toxic community for baseball fans.
To learn more about Molly Knight, visit her official website, subscribe to The Long Game, and pick up her book The Best Team Money Can Buy: The Los Angeles Dodgers' Wild Struggle to Build a Baseball Powerhouse.
This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm and the Is It Streaming podcast, the newest addition to the Writer's Bone Podcast Network.
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Best-selling author and good friend of the pod Jennifer Keishin Armstrong (Seinfeldia, Sex and the City and Us, When Women Invented Television) returns to the show to discuss her book Parks and Rec: The Underdog TV Show That Lit'rally Inspired a Vision for a Better America.
To learn more about Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, visit her official website. Also listen to our interviews with the author in Episode 632, Episode 293, and our first chat with her during a Friday Morning Coffee episode from 2016!
This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm and the Is It Streaming podcast, the newest addition to the Writer's Bone Podcast Network.
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