On this edition of Conversations, Wade Rouse talks with host Dan Skinner about his memoir, “Magic Season: A Son’s Story.” Rouse, who writes fiction under the pen name Viola Shipman, is an internationally bestselling author of 13 books, including four memoirs and nine novels.

On this edition of Conversations, Catherine Newman talks with host Dan Skinner about “What Can I Say? – A Kid’s Guide to Super Useful Social Skills to Help You Get Along and Express Yourself.” Newman is the author of the award-winning bestseller “How to Be a Person,” as well as two parenting memoirs.

On this edition of Conversations, Daniel Bergner talks with host Dan Skinner about “The Mind and the Moon: My Brother’s Story, The Science of Our Brains, and the Search for Our Psyches.” Bergner is a contributing writer for the “New York Times Magazine” and the author of five previous books of award-winning nonfiction.

On this edition of Conversations, Robin Benoit talks with host Dan Skinner about her novel, “The Eighty-Year-Old Sorority Girls,” which was inspired in part by her experience as a sorority alumna. Benoit's previous two books were works of non-fiction. This novel is her first foray into fiction.

On this edition of Conversations, Derek Kwan, Executive Director of the Lied Center, talks with host Dan Skinner about upcoming performances. Included in the performances is "The Moth" which is being presented in partnership with KPR. More information about future performances is available from the Lied Center website.

On this edition of Conversations, New York Times bestselling author Terri Libenson talks with host Dan Skinner about the latest in the “Emmie & Friends” series, “Remarkably Ruby.” Libenson is also the Reuben Award–winning cartoonist of the recently retired syndicated comic strip “The Pajama Diaries.”

On this edition of Conversations, Johnnie Christmas talks with host Dan Skinner about his graphic novel, “Swim Team – Small Waves, Big Changes.” Christmas is a #1 New York Times Best Selling graphic novelist. He is perhaps best known for co-creating the series “Angel Catbird” with celebrated writer Margaret Atwood and adapting William Gibson’s “Alien 3” into a critically acclaimed graphic novel of the same name.

On this edition of Conversations, Katherine Stewart talks with host Dan Skinner about “The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism.” Stewart is an author and investigative journalist whose work has been featured in major newspapers, magazines, and national broadcast news.

Wick is supposed to be the next Dark Lord, but so far he's just a Dork Lord. On this edition of Conversations, Mike Johnston talks with host Dan Skinner about the second book in his “Confessions of a Dork Lord” series, “Grave Dangers.” Johnston is an author of novels for adults and middle grade readers.

On this edition of Conversations, Topeka Civic Theatre Artistic Director Shannon Reilly talks with host Dan Skinner about “Art of Murder – The Case of the Deadly Grudges.” The Topeka Civic Theatre benefit performance event takes place on June 24. Tickets and more information is available at TopekaCivicTheatre.com.