Author Mark Stevens joins Daniel Ford on the show to chat about his novel The Fireballer. To learn more about Mark Stevens, visit his official website. Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by The Bookshop: Lou's Literary Line, Libro.fm, and Everyday Shakespeare.

David L. Roll, author of George Marshall and The Hopkins Touch, joins Daniel Ford on the show to discuss his latest book Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt's Shadow and Remade the World. Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by The Bookshop: Lou's Literary Line, Libro.fm, and Everyday Shakespeare.…

Filmmaker and screenwriter Ned Benson joins Daniel Ford on the show to discuss his new film "The Greatest Hits." He chats about his screenwriting process, which has involved working with the likes of Jessica Chastain and Scarlet Johansson, how he rounded up the terrific ensemble cast for the “The Greatest Hits,” and his approach to collaborating wi…

Author Clifford Garstang (Oliver's Travels, What the Zhang Boys Know), joins Daniel Ford on Friday Morning Coffee to chat about his new book The Last Bird of Paradise. Caitlin Malcuit also discusses the possible "Sesame Street" writers' strike and why it's so damn important for writers to fight for the compensation and benefits they deserve. To lea…

Author Aime Alley Card stops by the show and chats with Daniel Ford about her book The Tigerbelles: Olympic Legends from Tennessee State. To learn more about Aime Alley Card, visit her official website. Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by The Bookshop: Lou's Literary Line and Libro.fm.

Author Matt Gallagher (Empire City, Youngblood) returns to the show and talks with Daniel Ford about his new novel Daybreak and his reporting from Ukraine. To learn more about Matt Gallagher, visit his official website, read “Ukraine is no Forever War” in The Boston Globe and “Peace Through Victory: The Grim Resolve of Ukraine’s Citizen-Soldiers" i…

Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis, USN (Ret.) return to the show and chat with Daniel Ford and NovelClass' Dave Pezza about their new book 2054. To learn more about Elliot Ackerman, visit his official website. To learn more about Admiral James Stavridis, visit his official website. Also listen to our last conversation with the pair in Epi…

Author Nova Jacobs joins Daniel Ford on Friday Morning Coffee to chat about her novel The Stars Turned Inside Out. Caitlin Malcuit discusses the challenges faced by women in STEM and highlights the importance of fostering passion and showcasing the creative side of STEM fields. To learn more about Nova Jacobs, visit her official website. Writer's B…

Acclaimed author Crystal Hana Kim (If You Leave Me) returns to the show and chats with Daniel Ford about her latest novel The Stone Home (out now from William Morrow). To learn more about Crystal Hana Kim, visit her official website. Also listen to our first conversation with the author in Episode 319. Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by The Book…

Author and journalist Keith O'Brien joins Daniel Ford for a special Opening Day 2024 episode! O'Brien discusses his new book Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball. To learn more about Keith O'Brien, visit his official website. Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by The Bookshop: Lou's Literary Line and L…

Garrard Conley, author of the memoir Boy Erased, talks to Daniel Ford about his debut novel All the World Beside. To learn more about Garrard Conley, visit his official website. Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by The Bookshop: Lou's Literary Line and Libro.fm.

Author and Shakespeare scholar Michelle Ephraim joins Daniel Ford on Friday Morning Coffee to chat about her memoir Green World: A Tragicomic Memoir of Love & Shakespeare. Caitlin Malcuit discusses the infamous incident where a door plug flew off a Boeing plane mid-flight and the death of whistleblower John Barnett, who raised concerns about Boeing…

Author William Dameron returns to the show and chats with Daniel Ford about his debut novel The Way Life Should Be. To learn more about William Dameron, visit his official website and listen to his first appearance on the show. Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by The Bookshop: Lou's Literary Line and Libro.fm.…

Author Mark Cecil joins Daniel Ford on the show to discuss his debut novel Bunyan and Henry; Or the Beautiful Destiny. To learn more about Mark Cecil, visit his official website. Also subscribe to his podcast The Thoughtful Bro. Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by The Bookshop: Lou's Literary Line and Libro.fm.…

Acclaimed author, poet, and essayist Morgan Parker joins Daniel Ford on the show to discuss her new essay collection You Get What You Pay For (out today from One World). To learn more about Morgan Parker, visit her official website. Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by The Bookshop: Lou's Literary Line, Libro.fm and Mark Cecil's upcoming novel Bun…

Author Theodore Wheeler joins Daniel Ford on Friday Morning Coffee to chat about his latest novel The War Begins in Paris. Caitlin Malcuit also discusses the complex and often dangerous world of war reporting through the lens of female journalists and how we can uphold and support journalistic voices in conflict zones amidst an evolving media lands…

Author and otherppl host Brad Listi joins Daniel Ford on the show to discuss his novel Be Brief and Tell Them Everything. To learn more about Brad Listi, visit his official website. Also subscribe to his podcast otherppl. Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by The Bookshop: Lou's Literary Line, Libro.fm and Mark Cecil's upcoming novel Bunyan and Hen…

Author Deborah Jackson Taffa joins Daniel Ford on the show to discuss her memoir Whiskey Tender. To learn more about Deborah Jackson Taffa, visit her official website. Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by The Bookshop: Lou's Literary Line, Libro.fm and Mark Cecil's upcoming novel Bunyan and Henry; Or, the Beautiful Destiny.…

Author and historian Brooke Barber joins Daniel Ford on Friday Morning Coffee to chat about her book King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father. Caitlin Malcuit also discusses the continued fallout from Alabama's Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are children. To learn more about Brooke Barbier, visit her official webs…

Author Sarah Tomlinson joins Daniel Ford on the show to discuss her debut novel The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers. To learn more about Sarah Tomlinson, visit her official website. Also listen to Tomlinson's appearance on Daniel Paisner's As Told To: The Ghostwriting Podcast. Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by The Bookshop: Lou's Literary Li…

Author E.A. Aymar joins Daniel Ford on the show to chat about his latest thriller When She Left. To learn more about E.A. Aymer, visit his official website. Also read his reviews in The Washington Post and subscribe to his newsletter Crime Fiction Works. Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by The Bookshop: Lou's Literary Line, Libro.fm and Mark Ceci…

Author and journalist Rich Cohen joins Daniel Ford on the show to chat about his book When The Game Was War: The NBA’s Greatest Season. To learn more about Rich Cohen, visit his official website. Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by The Bookshop: Lou's Literary Line, Libro.fm and Mark Cecil's upcoming novel Bunyan and Henry; Or, the Beautiful Dest…

Author and historian Anne L. Foster joins Daniel Ford on Friday Morning Coffee to discuss her latest book The Long War on Drugs. As part of our 10-year anniversary celebration, Daniel also chats with Writer's Bone's original co-host and co-founder Sean Tuohy. (Listen to our interviews with Hard Case Crime's Charles Ardai in Episode 3 and Episode 70…

Author Amy Jo Burns joins Daniel Ford on the show to discuss her latest novel Mercury. To learn more about Amy Jo Burns, visit her official website. Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by The Bookshop: Lou's Literary Line, Libro.fm and Mark Cecil's upcoming novel Bunyan and Henry; Or, the Beautiful Destiny.…

Producer, composer, and podcaster Ian Coss joins Daniel Ford on the show to chat about his podcast "The Big Dig," which dropped this past fall and is presented by GBH News. To learn more about Ian Coss, visit his official website. Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by The Bookshop: Lou's Literary Line, Libro.fm and Mark Cecil's upcoming novel Bunya…

Author and historian Katherine Rye Jewell kicks off 2024's Friday Morning Coffee series with a discussion about her book Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio. Caitlin Malcuit also begins the year by chatting about recent media layoffs at Pitchfork, the Los Angeles Times, and Sports Illustrated; the recent strike at Condé Nast; and …

Author Kirthana Ramisetti talks with Daniel Ford about her novel Advika and the Hollywood Wives, which is now out in paperback. To learn more about Kirthana Ramisetti, visit her official website. Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by The Bookshop: Lou's Literary Line, Libro.fm and Mark Cecil's upcoming novel Bunyan and Henry; Or, the Beautiful Dest…

Best-selling author and pop culture historian Jennifer Keishin Armstrong kicks off our 2024 season with an in-depth conversation about her new book So Fetch: The Making of Mean Girls (And Why We’re Still So Obsessed with It). To learn more about Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, visit her official website. Also listen to our last chat with with the autho…

Author E.J. Koh joins Daniel Ford on the final Friday Morning Coffee of 2023 to chat about her novel The Liberators. Caitlin Malcuit also discusses the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, journalist casualties in the war, and E.J. Koh's handwritten love letter project. To learn more about E.J. Koh, visit her official website. Writer's Bone is proudly spon…

In our season finale, Daniel Ford and the Writer's Bone Podcast Network share the books we loved in 2023. Thank you to the authors we interviewed and read, our network hosts, and, of course, you, our dear listeners for another terrific year of podcasting. We can't wait to celebrate our tenth anniversary in 2024! The Best Books of 2023: Beware the W…

Author Anne Leigh Parrish joins Daniel Ford on Friday Morning Coffee to chat about her novel A Summer Morning. Caitlin Malcuit celebrates Festivus by discussing what hasn't changed since "Make A Million" landed in theaters in 1935 and why the rents are still too damn high. To learn more about Anne Leigh Parrish, visit her official website. Writer's…

Author Michael Farris Smith (The Fighter, Blackwood, Nick), joins Daniel Ford on the show to chat about his latest novel Salvage This World. To learn more about Michael Farris Smith, visit his official website. Also listen to our previous conversation with the author in 2020. Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by The Bookshop: Lou's Literary Line, …

Author Frank Santo joins Daniel Ford on Friday Morning Coffee to chat about his debut novel The Birthparents. Caitlin Malcuit also discusses the IMPACT X Nightline special "On the Brink," which covers the devastating effect of abortion bans in the United States, recounting incidents where individuals faced significant challenges accessing necessary…

Author Naoise Dolan (Exciting Times) joins Daniel Ford on the show to chat about her latest novel The Happy Couple. To learn more about Naoise Dolan, follow her on Twitter and Instagram. Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by The Bookshop: Lou's Literary Line, Libro.fm and Mark Cecil's upcoming novel Bunyan and Henry; Or, the Beautiful Destiny.…

Author and essayist Athena Dixon chats with Daniel Ford on Friday Morning Coffee about her memoir-in-essays The Loneliness Files. Caitlin Malcuit also discusses the 24-hour walkout strike at The Washington Post. Find out how you can support the paper's employees. To learn more about Athena Dixon, visit her official website. Writer's Bone is proudly…

Alexis Soloski, New York Times culture reporter and noir aficionado, talks to Daniel Ford about writing her debut thriller Here in the Dark. Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by The Bookshop: Lou's Literary Line, Libro.fm and Mark Cecil's upcoming novel Bunyan and Henry; Or, the Beautiful Destiny.

Artist, pianist, and composer BLKBOK joins Daniel Ford on the show to discuss his latest album "9" and and how his music encourages dialogue and inspires thought. To learn more about BLKBOK, visit his official website. You can also find his music on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Music. Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by Libro.fm and Mark Cecil's u…

Author Patrick Bringley sits down with Daniel Ford on Friday Morning Coffee and chats about his book All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me. In her intro, Caitlin Malcuit discusses the power of visual art, especially relating to the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine. To learn more about Patrick Bringley, visit his official w…

Author Ghassan Zeineddine chats with Daniel Ford about his debut short story collection Dearborn (published by Tin House and available wherever books are sold). Learn more about Ghassan Zeineddine. Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by Libro.fm and Mark Cecil's upcoming novel Bunyan and Henry; Or, the Beautiful Destiny.…

Holly Cassidy (aka our good literary friend Hannah Mary McKinnon) stops by on Black Friday 2023 to chat with us about her book The Christmas Wager. To learn more about Holly Cassidy/Hannah Mary McKinnon, visit their official website. Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by Libro.fm and Mark Cecil's upcoming novel Bunyan and Henry; Or, the Beautiful D…

If you're like us, food means family. It means love. It means comfort. It's in that spirit that we welcome legendary chef, television star, and author Jacques Pépin to the show the week of Thanksgiving. Pépin not only discusses his latest cookbook, Cooking My Way: Recipes and Techniques for Economical Cooking, but also the origins of his love of co…

A Ben double feature! First, author Ben Fountain (Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk) joins Daniel Ford on the show to chat about his latest novel Devil Makes Three. Then, Ben Purkert talks with Daniel about his debut novel The Men Can't Be Saved. To learn more about Ben Fountain, visit his official website. Learn more about Ben Purkert by visiting hi…

Heidi Pitlor (series editor of The Best American Short Stories) and Nicole Angeloro, (longtime editor of the series) chat with Daniel Ford about this year's edition, which was guest-edited by Min Jin Lee. To learn more about Heidi Pitlor, visit her official website. You can learn more about Nicole Angerloro by visiting Mariner Books' staff page. Al…

In this musical bonus episode, up-and-coming singer-songwriter Meredith Lane chats with Daniel Ford about her album "Greyhound," which has become a staple of our writing playlist. Daniel is then joined by Ford family friend Peter Catucci. The longtime musician discusses his new song "Center Line," which he submitted for Grammy Award consideration, …

Author Virginia Pye chats with Daniel Ford on Friday Morning Coffee about her latest novel The Literary Undoing of Victoria Swann. Caitlin Malcuit also discusses Esquire's feature about the future of book publishing and a new study that found women now publish more than 50 percent of books. More resources: "Women now dominate the book business. Why…

Author Nathan Hill joins Daniel Ford on the show to chat about his latest novel Wellness. To learn more about Nathan Hill, visit his official website. Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by Libro.fm and Mark Cecil's upcoming novel Bunyan and Henry; Or, the Beautiful Destiny.

Author Nigar Alam chats with Daniel Ford about her debut novel Under the Tamarind Tree. To learn more about Nigar Alam, visit her official website. Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by Libro.fm and Mark Cecil's upcoming novel Bunyan and Henry; Or, the Beautiful Destiny.

Author and historian Ronald C. White (American Ulysses, A. Lincoln) joins Daniel Ford on the show to discuss his new book On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. To learn more about Ronald C. White, visit his official website. Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by Libro.fm and Mark Cecil's upcoming novel Bunya…

Author Julia Fine (The Upstairs House, What Should Be Wild) returns to the show and chats with Daniel Ford about her latest novel Maddalena and the Dark. Caitlin Malcuit and Daniel also gab in studio about Halloween traditions, autumn New England events, and a Spirit halloween meet cute. To learn more about Julia Fine, visit her official website. A…

Author and pop culture obsessive Micol Ostow talks with Daniel Ford about her picture books Gilmore Girls: At Home in Stars Hollow, Life is Better With Friends, and Seinfeld: The Day of Nothing. To learn more about Micol Ostow, visit her official website. Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by Libro.fm and Mark Cecil's upcoming novel Bunyan and Henr…