Legendary editor magazine editor Tina Brown dishes on her time as editor of Vanity Fair in the gilded 1980s of New York, which chronicled in blue school notebooks that became The Vanity Fair Diaries.
Lisa Ko talks about her book The Leavers, a finalist for the National Book Award. How far would you go to get a better life and what compromises would endure? Is realizing your own potential more important than your child's?
Celeste Ng talks about her arrestingly beautiful new novel Little Fires Everywhere about what makes a mother, the path not taken, and secrets that can tear people apart
Kamila Shamsie discusses her stunning new novel Home Fire that tells the story of two British Pakistani families who follow different paths and clash in an explosive encounter that tests loyalty, family, friendship, love and belonging.
Ausma Zehanat Khan talks about her latest Detective Esa Khattak mystery novel. This time the Toronto Muslim cop finds himself embroiled in a human rights case in Iran
Sarah Schmidt talks about her retelling of one of the most sensational crimes in American history - Lizzie Borden, axe murderer? In this debut novel See What I have Done, she paints a psychological portrait of the household at the time of the m
Renowned transgender writer Jennifer Finney Boylan discusses her debut mystery - Long Black Veil, an exploration of identity and whether friendships can survive a change of identity.
Diksha Basu talks about her debut novel, The Windfall, that examines the changes that come to a family as a result of becoming rich. A wonderful, astute observation of the new rich in modern day India
Karen RInaldi discusses her debut novel, The End of Men, about four prosperous, succesful women who are still struggling to have it all, on their own terms. Do they really need men to achieve that?
Episode 1 of the companion podcast to 52weeks52books52women.com An interview with author J. Courtney Sullivan on her new novel Saints For All Occasions