CUNY TV's Book IT

This month we chat with Chloé Cooper Jones whose memoir, “Easy Beauty” was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. “Easy Beauty” is a groundbreaking story about disability, motherhood, and the search for a new way of seeing and being seen. Also, we compare the book to movie adaptation of “Where The Crawdads Sing” with Prof. Tom Means; May Wuthridge shares how she became an audiobook producer; and Linda Stasi has some Uncensored reviews!

This month we chat with Maeve DuVally about her book “Maeve Rising: Coming Out Trans in Corporate America”, an incredibly honest and empowering memoir about her battles with depression, addiction, and coming out as a transgender woman while at Goldman Sachs. Also, Primo Lasana, Executive Director of Reading Partners New York stops by to discuss literary rates; Ebony LaDelle, author of Love Radio shares how she started writing; and Linda Stasi is back with some of her Uncensored reviews!

This month we chat with Loida Lewis, an activist, mother, philanthropist, and author of “Why Should Guys Have All the Fun?”, her fascinating story about growing up in the Philippines, becoming a lawyer, marrying financier Reginald Lewis and his untimely death, and her running a billion-dollar, multinational conglomerate. Also, Adrian Cepeda aka BookPapi sits down with author Jasmin Hernandez about her book We Are Here, which profiles 50 BIPOC artists and art entrepreneurs; we talk author income with Andrew Albanese from Publishers Weekly; and Linda Stasi is back with some of her Uncensored reviews!

This month we chat with author Y.Rodriguez about her new book of short stories “Urban Folk Tales”, that explores the often mundane, but magical moments of love, tragedy, joy, and survival that happen every day in New York City; Adrian Cepeda aka BookPapi sits down with author Jordan Salama; Dhonielle Clayton, best-selling author and COO of We Need Diverse Books, stops by to discuss diversity in publishing; author Barry Lyga shares how he got his first book published; and Linda Stasi is back with some of her Uncensored reviews!

This month we chat with New York Times best-selling author and Brooklyn College graduate Robert Jones, Jr. about his novel “The Prophets”, a stunning debut about the forbidden relationship between two enslaved men on a southern plantation; our new Book It contributor Adrian Cepeda, a.k.a Book Papi sits down with author Zoraida Córodva; Jim Milliot, editorial director of Publishers Weekly, lets us know which genres are best-sellers; and literary agent for ghost writers Madeleine Morel shares how she got her start in the book biz. Also, Linda Stasi is back with some of her Uncensored reviews!

We’re back with an all new Book It… Executive Vice President and Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at Pfizer Sally Susman chats about her new book “Breaking Through”, which reveals the PR challenges of navigating Pfizer and their COVID vaccine through the pandemic; we meet our new Book It contributor Adrian Cepeda, a.k.a Book Papi; Jim Milliot, editorial director of Publishers Weekly, gives us an update in the world of publishing; and best-selling author Kate White shares some tips on how to find time to write. Also, Linda Stasi is back with some of her Uncensored reviews!

In this episode of Book It… CUNY author Rebecca Bratspies chats about her new book “Naming Gotham”, which takes a look at the names behind New York's infrastructure; author Mikki Brammer talks about her debut novel "The Collected Regrets of Clover”, a heart-warming story that explores death, grief, love and human connection. Also, Linda Stasi is back with some of her Uncensored reviews!

Food and philosophy! Following up her blockbuster cookbook “Good and Cheap, author Leanne Brown helps Carol Anne create a recipe from her new book, “Good Enough.” And CUNY Prof. Massimo Pigliucci discusses his latest work, "The Quest for Character."

On this episode of Book It, author Elizabeth Nunez talks to Carol Anne about her latest book, Now Lila Knows. We also hear from Allison Gilbert about her biography that explores the life of Elsie Robinson, a journalist and maverick born in 1883

On this episode of Book It with CA, Carol Anne chats with fellow CUNY TV host Abi Ishola-Ayodeji about her debut novel Patience is a Subtle Thief, and guest host Ernabel Demillo talks to playwright Alvin Eng about his memoir, Our Laundry Our Town!