Sarah Lewis talks about her book, "The Rise: Creativity, The Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery."
Sarah Lewis talks about her book, "The Rise: Creativity, The Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery."
Colson Whitehead’s novel The Underground Railroad just won the 2016 National Book Award.
Steve Paulson spoke with him about this powerful, sweeping epic.
Toby Cecchini is part owner and bartender at Passerby, a bar in New York’s far West Chelsea neighborhood. He’s also the author of “Cosmopolitan: A Bartender’s Life.”
Michael Paterniti travels to the highlands of Spain to track down one of the world's greatest cheesemakers.
In this segment, we hear several love stories from the lives of TTBOOK listeners.
Salman Ahmad grew up in both Pakistan and the United States. Trained as an M.D., Ahmad has traded in his stethoscope for a guitar and performs with his group, Junoon...
MIT Professor Sherry Turkle is fascinated by our interactions with machines. She's just released the third book in a trilogy of books on the subject.
Novelist Wesley Stace (AKA musician John Wesley Harding) tells Jim what the original novel, "Tristram Shandy," is all about.