Bridget LeRoy interviews Alec Baldwin, Rosanne Cash, Candace Bushnell, Robert Caro, and many others during East Hampton Library's Authors Night 2019.

Bridget LeRoy interviews Alec Baldwin, Rosanne Cash, Candace Bushnell, Robert Caro, and many others during East Hampton Library's Authors Night 2019.

Bridget LeRoy interviews Alec Baldwin, Rosanne Cash, Candace Bushnell, Robert Caro, and many others during East Hampton Library's Authors Night 2019.

Bridget LeRoy interviews Alec Baldwin, A.J. Finn, Lee Child, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Chris Whipple, and many others at the 14th annual East Hampton Library's Authors Night 2018.

Julia Fowler-Sokolow discusses her viral Southern Women YouTube channel, her books, and more, Sam Sokolow talks about his Emmy-nominated Nat Geo hit series "Genius" and growing up on the East End, mom Diane Sokolow gets a word in edgewise occasionally, and me and Alec are doing our regular  blah-blah-blah.

This week, our guest is Sybille van Kempen of Bridgehampton Inn & Restaurant, the Loaves and Fishes Cookshop, and the Loaves & Fishes Food Store in Sagaponack. Sybille will speak about how, after 40 successful years in the Hamptons, she continues to innovate and evolve each business. Sybille and her businesses have a devoted following of celebrity fans including Jimmy Fallon, Sarah Jessica Parker, Katie Lee, and more. She started her culinary career working for Ina Garten and has raised her  family out here.

Our guest this week is young adult author Amy Laura Ephron. Her latest book "Carnival Magic" the continued, startling, sometimes  magical adventures of Tess and Max, is a bestseller and was featured in Teen Vogue, among many other magazines and journals, and is in talks as a  film. It has been nominated for an American Library Association award, and the Grand Canyon Award to be announced in 2020. A companion to "The Castle in the Mist," (the intro to Tess and Max and their Aunt Evie,) was an Amazon Best pick, a B&N pick, and claimed a nom for a SCIBA award. 

She is the author of the bestselling "A Cup of Tea;" "One Sunday  Morning;" "White Rose;" and "Loose Diamonds," a collection of modern  essays, pieces of which appeared in Vogue and The New York Times.

This week on our show we host world-famous jazz pianist, performer and raconteur Judy Carmichael, a Sag Harbor resident when she's not touring the world playing for kings and celebrities plus regular folks. 

She is also the host of the NPR show "Jazz Inspired," which has been broadcast nationally for the past 20 years, featuring guests like Billy Joel, Frank Gehry, and Robert Redford. 

Judy is a consummate storyteller and we discuss the jazz — or improvisational — lifestyle, and also where we each find those moments of music in our lives.

This week we'll be talking boxing, books, movies, and overcoming your fears with Golden Gloves fighter/author Pete Wood ("Confessions of a Fighter" and "The Boy Who Hit Back") and Frederick Romano (author of "The Golden Age of Boxing on Radio and Television" and "The Boxing Filmography"). Bridget dared to fisticuff with Pete, who has fought in Madison Square Garden and went 14-1, and has never been knocked out. Sok didn't.

This week our guests are guitarist and musical director extraordinaire G.E. Smith and his wife and partner, Taylor Barton, a singer-songwriter and the producer of the "Portraits" series at Guild Hall of East Hampton. 

Looking forward to talking about music, with lots of fun anecdotes, but  also about health and self-care — a road that many of us don't discover until we realize that we're not 10-feet-tall and bulletproof (usually after 50!).