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Bill welcomes author Gayle Brandeis to the show. Gayle is the author of Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write, Dictionary Poems, the novels The Book of Dead Birds, Self Storage, and Delta Girls (Ballantine) - and her first novel for young readers, My Life with the Lincolns, which won a Silver Nautilus Book Award and was chosen as a state-wide read in Wisconsin. She is also author of the new memoir, The Art of Misdiagnosis: Surviving My Mother’s Suicide. Her poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies (such as Salon, The Rumpus, The Nation, and The Mississippi Review) and she has received several literary awards, including the QPB/Story Magazine Short Story Award, and a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2016. Gayle Brandeis is also the Editor-in-Chief at Tiferet Journal and host of Tiferet Talk, Tiferet's live radio interview broadcasts.

Bill welcomes debut memoirist Paula Pederson to the show. Paula's memoir, Mysterious Builder of Seattle's Landmarks: Searching for My Father, tells the fascinating tale of Paula's search to uncover the truth about her father, and her family's many secrets. Join us as we discuss writing, memoirs, families and much more. Don't miss it.

Bill welcomes author and celebrity mortician Caitlin Doughty to the show. Caitlin is a mortician, activist, and funeral industry rabble-rouser. In 2011 she founded the death acceptance collective The Order of the Good Death, which has spawned the death positive movement. Her first book, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, was a New York Times best-seller. She lives in Los Angeles, where she runs her nonprofit funeral home. We will be discussing, among other things, her latest book, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death.

Bill welcomes journalist and bestselling author Blaine Harden to the show. For 28 years, Blaine worked for The Washington Post as a correspondent in Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia, as well as in New York and Seattle. For four years, he was a local and national correspondent for The New York Times and a writer for the Times Magazine. He is a reporter and consultant for PBS FRONTLINE,  and he has written for The Economist, Time, Foreign Policy, National Geographic and the Guardian. He is also the author of several books, including Escape From Camp 14, The Great Leader and Fighter Pilot, and, most recently, King of Spies.

Bill welcomes author and teacher Maresha Donna Ducharme to the show. A unique combination of mystic, teacher and author Maresha Donna Ducharme is the founder of the Snow Dragon Sanctuary. The Sanctuary is a contemplative center for all faiths and traditions. Maresha has guided and inspired countless students over many years. A dedicated practitioner of unity in consciousness, she has distilled more than three decades of study, training, teaching and practice into her simple and insightful book, The Way Home to Love: A Guide to Peace in a Turbulent Times.

Bill welcomes author and yogi Rachel Scott to the show. A yoga instructor who has logged over 3000 hours of teaching, Rachel is currently the Director of Teachers’ College and Development for YYoga. In addition to her videos and  blogs, she contributes regularly to Yoga International, Huffington Post and the blog at Half Moon. Her first book Wit and Wisdom from the Yoga Mat was published in 2016. We will be discussing her latest book: Head over Heals; A Yogi's Guide to Dating.

Bill welcomes novelist Donna Baier Stein to the show. Donna is the author of The Silver Baron’s Wife, Sympathetic People, and the poetry collection  Sometimes You Sense the Difference. She was a Founding Editor of Bellevue Literary Review and founded and publishes Tiferet Journal. Her stories and poems have appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, Confrontation, Prairie Schooner, New York Quarterly, Washingtonian, New Ohio Review, Ascent, Puerto del Sol, and many other journals as well as in the anthologies I’ve Always Meant to Tell You (Pocket Books), To Fathers: What I’ve Never Said (featured in O Magazine), Men and Women: Together and Alone from Spirit That Moves Us Press.

Bill welcomes novelist and short story writer Audrey Kalman to the show. Audrey  writes literary fiction with a dark edge, often about what goes awry when human connection is missing from our lives. She is the author of two novels: What Remains Unsaid and Dance of Souls. Her short fiction has appeared in a number of print and online publications.

She served as editor of Fault Zone, the anthology of California writers produced by the SF-Peninsula Branch of the California Writers Club, and is currently the branch vice president.

Bill welcomes acclaimed novelist Claire Messud to the show. Claire has twice been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award; her second novel, The Last Life, was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and Editor's Choice at The Village Voice. All of her books have been New York Times Notable Books of the Year. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Radcliffe Fellowship, and is the current recipient of the Straus Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. We will be discussing her newest novel, The Burning Girl. Should be fun!

Bill welcomes debut YA novelist Lana Popovic to the show. Lana studied psychology and literature at Yale University, and law at Boston University. She is a graduate of the Emerson College Publishing and Writing program and works as a literary agent with Chalberg & Sussman, specializing in YA. Her debut YA novel, Wicked Like a Wildfire, is out now! Don't miss it.