Concert pianist Jeremy Denk, author of "Every Good Boy Does Fine: a Love Story in Music Lessons."  

From 2010- Kathryn Allamong Jacob, author of "King of the Lobby:  The Life and Times of Sam Ward, Man-About-Washington in the Gilded Age."

From 2009- an excerpt from an interview with Howard Behar, author of "It's not about the Coffee:  Lessons on Putting People First from a Life at Starbucks." (Behar was founding president of Starbucks International, and served the company in other capacities as well.)  

From 2007 - an interview with the late Ralph Houghton, who was the longtime coordinator of fine arts for the Kenosha Unified School District.  

Waldo Mellon (the pen name of screenwriter Steve Adams) discusses his book "What's What and What to do about it: Answers you didn't know you wanted to Questions you didn't know you had." 

 Best-selling novelist Rebecca Serle discusses her latest book,  "One Italian Summer: a Novel."  

From 2021 - (for women's history month)  Robin Gerber, author of "Barbie and Ruth: The Story of the World's Most Famous Doll- and the Woman who created her."   

From 2020 (for women's history month) Robert Weintraub, author of "The Divine Miss Marble: A Life of Tennis, Fame and Mystery." The book examines the life and legacy of Alice Marble,  one of the greatest tennis players of the 20th century. 

We discuss the new book "Bandits, Misfits and Superheroes: Whiteness and its Borderlands in American Comics and Graphic Novels" with its two authors: Josef Benson, associate professor of literatures and languages ... and Doug Singsen, associate professor of art history .... at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.

Ryan Jenkins and Steven Van Cohen discuss their book "Connectable: How Leaders can move teams from Isolated to All In."  It's a very perceptive and illuminating book about loneliness in our modern world - and although the book focuses quite specifically on loneliness in the modern workplace, it has relevance far beyond the workplace.