Eliza Knight, author of "The Queen's Faithful Companion: A novel of Queen Elizabeth II and her beloved Corgi, Susan." The novel covers Elizabeth's life from her 18th birthday to just after she ascended to the throne .... tracing those events through three perspectives: young Elizabeth, a young servant named Hannah, and Elizabeth's beloved corgi Susan.

We speak with two representatives of the national organization Braver Angels, which seeks to facilitate more meaningful dialogue between people on both sides of our country's political divide. We speak with David Lapp, who co-founded the organization in 2016, and Cameron Swallow, who is co-chair of the national Braver Angels convention that is taking place at Carthage College this coming weekend.

Dr. Art Cyr, a professor at Carthage College and a nationally syndicated columnist, joins us to talk about recent elections for the EU Parliament, U.S. ties with Australia, and former president Donald Trump.

James Parker talks about his book "Get me thru the next five minutes: Odes to being alive." Parker, a staff writer at THE ATLANTIC, was approached by his editors and asked to create some sort of monthly feature that would appear on the inside back cover. He ultimately began writing a series of odes - poems or essays in praise of something or somebody. What sets his odes apart is that most of them are written in praise of unlikely things such as Procrastination ..... Difficult People ..... Crying Babies. The book is an entertaining and thought-provoking exercise in broadening one's sense of gratitude.

From 2008- Afghan novelist Khalid Hosseini ("The Kite Runner") talks about his novel "A Thousand Splendid Suns."

For Pride Month- from 2017: Susan Stryker talks about her book "Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution." The book was originally released in 2008. This interview was done at the time that its second edition was released.

We speak with best-selling authors Steve Berry and Grant Blackwood about how collaborate in writing thrillers- and talk about their latest novel, "Red Star Falling."

From 2015: Linda Flashinski talks about her book "In what light there is," a collection of some of the essays she wrote for her column of the same name that was published for a number of years in the Racine Journal Times. Linda is known to many WGTD listeners as a very capable co-host of our weekend program "Education Matters" as well as a limited series titled "Heroes in our midst." For many years, she worked for the Racine Unified School District.

Best-selling author Larry Tye discusses his latest book "The Jazz Men: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie Transformed America."

From 2015- John Feinstein, author of "Where nobody knows your name: Life in the minor leagues of baseball."