Episodes

  • On the Open Road with E.A. Hanks

    On the Open Road with E.A. Hanks
    Apr 8 2025
    On this week’s episode of You Are What You Read, we are joined by Elizabeth Hanks, also known as E.A. Hanks, with her memoir, The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road. The daughter of Tom Hanks, Elizabeth writes a beautiful, deeply felt memoir about her family and her late mother, Susan Dillingham. Elizabeth recounts her solo, cross-country journey across the American southwest on a mission to discover who she is—where her mother ends and she begins. Formerly a staffer at Vanity Fair, Elizabeth has contributed to Time, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and others. The 10 is available today wherever books are sold. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • Paul Rudnick: A Love Letter to New York

    Paul Rudnick: A Love Letter to New York
    Apr 5 2025
    On this episode of You Are What You Read, we are joined by author, playwright and screenwriter Paul Rudnick. Paul is the author of seven books, including Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style and most recently, What is Wrong With You? His plays have been produced on and off Broadway and include Jeffrey, I Hate Hamlet, Regrets Only, and The New Century. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Esquire, and more. You know and love his screenplays, Addams Family Values, Coastal Elites, In & Out, Sister Act, and the film adaptation of Jeffrey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    58 mins
  • Bonnie Garmus on Lessons in Chemistry

    Bonnie Garmus on Lessons in Chemistry
    Apr 1 2025
    On this week's episode of You Are What You Read, author of the blockbuster Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus, joins us for a conversation about the book, which is available in a newly-designed paperback edition today. Lessons in Chemistry took the world by storm when it hit bookshelves in 2022. A #1 Global Bestseller with more than 8 million copies sold, the book received great acclaim from the Good Morning America Book Club and was named “Best Book of the Year” by Barnes & Noble, The New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, Oprah Daily, Entertainment Weekly, and Newsweek. The book went on to become a series on Apple TV+ where it is now available to stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    27 mins
  • Graydon Carter and the Golden Era of Magazines

    Graydon Carter and the Golden Era of Magazines
    Mar 25 2025
    On this week’s episode of You Are What You Read, world-renowned journalist Graydon Carter joins us for a conversation about his memoir, When the Going Was Good, which hits shelves today. Graydon is the founder of Air Mail. Before this, he was a staff writer for both Time and Life. He cocreated Spy, edited The New York Observer, and for twenty-five years was the award-winning editor of Vanity Fair. He is also the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning producer of more than a dozen documentaries and one hit Broadway play. Subscribe to AirMail: https://airmail.news/ Enter to win one of 30 advanced copies of The View from Lake Como now on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/404916-the-view-from-lake-como-a-novel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    48 mins
  • Bernice McFadden on her first-ever memoir, First Born Girls

    Bernice McFadden on her first-ever memoir, First Born Girls
    Mar 22 2025
    On this episode of You Are What You Read, we are joined by bestselling author and dear friend Bernice McFadden. Bernice is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Tulane University and the author of the critically acclaimed novels Sugar, Gathering of Waters, The Book of Harlan, and Praise Song for the Butterflies. Today, she joins us with her first-ever memoir, Firstborn Girls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    37 mins
  • Henry Alford: I Dream of Joni

    Henry Alford: I Dream of Joni
    Mar 18 2025
    This week’s guest on You Are What You Read is Henry Alford, a humorist and journalist who has written for The New Yorker for more than two decades. A former columnist for The New York Times and a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, he is the author of seven books, including And Then We Danced, How to Live, and Big Kiss, an account of his attempts to become a working actor, which won a Thurber Prize. In his most recent work, I DREAM OF JONI, Henry studies the beloved singer, songwriter and instrumentalist, Joni Mitchell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    53 mins
  • Publishing great books and writing one: A conversation with John Sargent

    Publishing great books and writing one: A conversation with John Sargent
    Mar 15 2025
    On this episode of You Are What You Read, we are diving into a conversation about publishing with someone at the top of the game, the former publisher and CEO of Macmillan, John Sargent. Before he was a leader in the world of books, John was raised on a ranch in Wyoming. He worked at three different publishers before going to Simon and Schuster to run the children’s book division at the age of twenty-nine. He spent six years there, followed by three years as the CEO of DK Publishing. In 1996, he went to work as the CEO of St Martin’s Press. Three years later, he was put in charge of Holtzbrinck’s US publishers and was responsible for forming the company that is today’s Macmillan. He worked there as CEO until the end of 2020. All of this is chronicled in John’s memoir, Turning Pages, which we discuss in this episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    48 mins
  • LIVE with Leigh Bardugo

    LIVE with Leigh Bardugo
    Mar 11 2025
    On this week’s episode of You Are What You Read, #1 New York Times bestselling author joins us for a LIVE conversation about her new novel, The Familiar, a historical romantasy set during the Spanish Inquisition. Leigh is also the author of Ninth House and the creator of the Grishaverse (now a Netflix original series) which spans the Shadow and Bone trilogy, the Six of Crows duology, the King of Scars duology—and much more. Leigh is an associate fellow of Pauli Murray College at Yale University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    36 mins
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