On this edition of Conversations, Julie Clark talks with host Dan Skinner about her second novel, a psychological thriller, called “The Last Flight.” Clark’s first novel, “The Ones We Choose,” was published in 2018 and has been optioned for television by Lionsgate.

On this edition of Conversations, Victoria Phillips talks with host Dan Skinner about "Martha Graham's Cold War: The Dance of American Diplomacy." Phillips specializes in Cold War Culture and diplomacy. Dr. Philips is a lecturer in History at the European Institute and Department of History at Columbia University in New York.

On this edition of Conversations, Colin Dickey talks with host Dan Skinner about “The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession With the Unexplained.” Dickey is a writer, speaker, and academic, and has made a career out of collecting unusual objects and hidden histories all over the country.

Sanford Levinson is a professor both at the University of Texas Law School and the University of Texas at Austin Department of Government. He is the author of many books on the U.S. Constitution and other subjects. Cynthia Levinson is an author of award-winning non-fiction books about social justice for young readers. On this edition of Conversations, they join us to talk about “Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Graphic Novel.”

On this edition of Conversations, Tehlor Kay Mejia talks with host Dan Skinner about “Paola Santiago and the River of Tears," which is part of the "Rick Riordan Presents Series." Mejia is also the author of the critically acclaimed young adult fantasy novel “We Set the Dark on Fire,” as well as its forthcoming sequel, “We Unleash the Merciless Storm.”

On this edition of Conversations, Ellyn Lem talks with host Dan Skinner about “Gray Matters: Finding Meaning in the Stories of Later Life.” Lem is a professor of English and Gender Studies at UW-Milwaukee at Waukesha, where she teaches a variety of composition and literature courses, including a course, Women in Popular Culture.

On this edition of Conversations, Judith Finlayson talks with host Dan Skinner about “You Are What Your Grandparents Ate: What You Need to Know About Nutrition, Experience, Epigenetics & the Origins of Chronic Disease.” Finlayson is a bestselling author who has written books on a variety of subjects from personal well-being and women’s history to food and nutrition.

On this edition of Conversations, Bina Venkataraman talks with host Dan Skinner about “The Optimists Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age.” Venkataraman is the editorial page editor of The Boston Globe. Before joining the Globe, she served as a senior adviser for climate change innovation in the Obama White House and was the director of global policy initiatives at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

On this edition of Conversations, Brian Freeman talks with host Dan Skinner about "The Bourne Evolution." Freeman is a bestselling and award-winning author of more than 20 novels, including the “Jonathan Stride” and “Frost Easton” series. The Ludlum Estate chose Brian Freeman as the author to continue Robert Ludlum’s Jason Bourne series beginning with this reboot of the character.

On this edition of Conversations, Judith Matloff talks with host Dan Skinner about “How to Drag a Body and Other Safety Tips You Hope to Never Need: Survival Tricks for Hacking, Hurricanes, and Hazards Life Might Throw at You.” She pioneered safety training for women and media around the world, helping hundreds of journalists face an increasingly dangerous world.