Bookmark with Don Noble

Today's guest is historian and Auburn professor James Hansen, about his latest book "Completely Mad", a sweeping saga involving two extraordinary—and extraordinarily different—adventurers who have only one thing in common: the ambition to cross the Atlantic in a rowboat.

Don is joined by author Imani Perry, Birmingham native and author of South To America, A Journey Below The Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation.

Veteran writer Howell Raines stops by to talk about his study of an important but largely unknown Alabama cavalry unit that fought for the Union army, in his new book "Silent Cavalry"

Don visits with author Harrison Scott Key to talk about his new book "How To Stay Married, The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told"

Don sits down with his old friend Daniel Wallace to discuss his novel "This Isn't Going To End Well".

Author Eugene Walter visits with Don Noble to talk about his mythical Mobile.

Philip Beidler is Margaret and William Going Professor of English at the University of Alabama, where he has taught American literature since receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1974. His most recent book—the subject of his discussion here with Don Noble—is The Island Called Paradise: Cuba in History, Literature, and the Arts. His new book, forthcoming from the University of Alabama Press, is entitled Beautiful War: Studies in a Dreadful Fascination.

Author Rick Bragg joins Don to talk about his memoir All Over But The Shoutin.

Wayne Flynt sits down with Don Noble to discuss his new book, Mockingbird Songs - My Friendship with Harper Lee.

Edward O. Wilson, a leading advocate of global conservation, is one of the great thinkers of the 20th century. His groundbreaking research, original thinking, and scientific and popular writing have contributed to change the way humans think of nature. He has received many of the world's leading prizes for his research in science, his environmental activism, and his writing. We spoke with Wilson, who currently is a research professor and museum curator at Harvard University, about his latest book, The Diversity of Life, that soon will be available in 14 languages around the world.