An award-winning journalist and historian, Denise talks with us about her wonderfully insightful book The Girls of Atomic City, which was a New York Times bestseller in its first week of publication.

A noted professor of radio astronomy and astroparticle physics and led the inter- national effort that gave the world the first-ever image of a black hole. His new book is Light in the Darkness: Black Holes, the Universe, and Us.

Susan, who spends most of her time writing in her restored chicken shed and running her four companies and works as a faculty member at the College of William and Mary along with lecturing regularly on writing, education joins Alan to discuss her literary efforts.

Emily Gibson is a historian of science and technology and
a science policy analyst at NSF in Alexandria, Virginia. She
is currently writing a book on the history of the agency.

New York Times best-selling author of the Kopp Sisters series and, where our conversation begins, nonfiction titles include The Drunken Botanist, Wicked Plants, and Flower Confidential and host Alan Lowe chat about the fascinating world of plants and their many sciences.