We hear from Christian Kiefer, whose new novel THE HEART OF IT ALL is set in a struggling rust-belt town in Ohio.

Memoir of an army captain in Afghanistan who returns home and does the hard work to recover from PTSD.

Aubrey Gordon is a well-informed voice on anti-fat bias as well as misinformation surrounding weight loss. She talks to us about her new book You Just Need to Lose Weight and 19 Other Myths about Fat People.

On this episode of the Gulf Coast Life Book Club, National Book Award finalist Allegra Goodman talks about her new novel, Sam.

Stella Levi was 92 when she began telling her story of breing a Holocaust survivor. Michael Frank captured it in One Hundred Saturdays.

In her new book The Migrant Chef: The Life and Times of Lalo Garcia, journalist Laura Tillman traces Lalo’s journey from picking produce in the fields to becoming a beloved chef and owner of a leading Mexico City restaurant.

Amy Grace Loyd's latest novel takes place in a headache clinic in an abandoned church. It explores physical and psychic pain.

We hear from Marcy Dermansky, author of Hurricane Girl, a fascinating, funny, horrifying, relatable and very gripping read.

Dr. Kate Bowler joins us to talk about her two memoirs—No Cure For Being Human and Everything Happens For a Reason and Other Lies I Have Loved—on the Gulf Coast Life Book Club.

We hear from poet and essayist Diana Goetsch about her new memoir This Body I Wore, in which she describes coming out as a trans woman at age 50.