On this episode of You Are What You Read, we are joined by our good friend Mitch Albom with his brand new novel, TWICE. Mitch is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tuesdays with Morrie. His books of fiction and nonfiction have sold forty-two million copies in forty-eight languages worldwide. Mitch is founder of the nonprofit SAY Detroit, supporting Detroit community members with healthcare, housing and education initiatives. He also founded a dessert shop and a gourmet popcorn line to help fund it. saydetroit.org Mitch operates Have Faith Haiti, a home and school for impoverished children and orphans in Port-au-Prince, which he visits monthly. havefaithhaiti.org TWICE is all about second chances, and we were thrilled that some of you wrote in with your questions and second-chance stories to share with Mitch today.

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On this episode of You Are What You Read, we are joined by poet and author Silas House who has not one but two books out this September that you don’t want to miss: a new novel, Dead Man Blues, and a book of poetry, All These Ghosts. Silas was the recipient of the Duggins Prize, the largest award for an LGBTQ writer in the nation. He was inducted as the Poet Laureate of Kentucky for 2023–2025 and became a Grammy finalist. Silas teaches at Berea College and at the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Creative Writing. 

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Welcome to Season Three of You Are What You Read, a podcast with the luminaries of our time about the books that built their souls. This season, we have an incredible lineup of special guests you don’t want to miss. We are kicking off Season Three with a fan favorite who is touring the country now, the great Matthew McConaughey. Matthew joined us for a few conversations about his bestselling book Greenlights, which we discuss in this episode. Matthew tells us later about his plans to write more books, which culminated into his latest, Poems & Prayers. 

You can watch this week’s episode with Matthew now on Youtube! Head to the You Are What You Read podcast YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@youarewhatyoureadpodcast 

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 On this week’s episode of You Are What You Read, we are in the kitchen with one of the world’s most celebrated chefs, Jacques Pepin. You know Jacques as the award-winning cooking show host, master chef, food columnist, cooking teacher, and author of nineteen cookbooks. In this conversation, we talked about one of our favorite cookbooks by Jacques, Art of the Chicken. Jacques’ latest cookbook, The Art of Jacques Pepin, just hit shelves in time for his 90th birthday. It’s a collection of Jacques’ favorite recipes and signature artworks- don’t miss it! 

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On today’s episode of You Are What You Read, we are joined by biographer Nicholas Boggs to talk about literary icon James Baldwin. Nick is the author of Baldwin: A Love Story, a deep dive into Baldwin’s personal relationships and their influence on his life and work. Nick’s biography was named a “A Most Anticipated Book” by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, Publisher’s Weekly and more. Nicholas also co-edited a new edition of Baldwin's collaboration with French artist Yoran Cazac, Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood.

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On this week’s episode of You Are What You Read, we are traveling back in time to 1962 when the one-and-only Johnny Carson redefined late-night television as host of The Tonight Show. Traveling with us, is Mike Thomas with the best selling biography he co-wrote with Bill Zehme, Carson the Magnificent. In 2002, Bill Zehme landed one of the most coveted assignments for a magazine writer: an interview with Johnny Carson—the only one he’d granted since retiring from hosting The Tonight Show a decade earlier. Following Carson’s passing in 2005, Zehme embarked on an exhaustive nearly decade-long research journey, interviewing dozens of Carson’s colleagues and friends to craft this biography, although his efforts were halted by a cancer diagnosis. ” Mike Thomas, Zehme’s former research assistant, completed Carson the Magnificent to offer this honest assessment of who Johnny Carson really was.

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.On this week’s episode of You Are What You Read, we are joined by Jeffrey Eugenides. Jeffrey is the bestselling novelist, short story writer and Pulitzer Prize-winner known for The Virgin Suicides, Middlesex and The Marriage Plot. Jeffrey was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2018 and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013. He has taught at Princeton and now serves as the Lewis and Loretta Glucksman Professor in American Letters at NYU. His next project, Icarus, is an Audible original coming this fall.

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On this week’s episode of You Are What You Read, we are joined by a one-of-a-kind actress, author, comedian, and the ultimate dramatist, Fannie Flagg, with her latest offering, Something to Look Forward To. You know Fannie’s work, the New York Times best sellers: Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man and Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. Fannie’s script for the movie Fried Green Tomatoes was nominated for an Academy Award and the Writers Guild of America Award and won the highly regarded Scripter Award for best screenplay of the year. She joins us today for a conversation like we’ve never had before about the books that shaped her and the legacy she leaves for writers everywhere.

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On this week’s episode of You Are What You Read, we are joined by Wally Lamb and his latest, bestselling novel, The River is Waiting. You know Wally’s work as the esteemed Oprah’s Book Club selections: I’ll Take You There, We Are Water, Wishin’ and Hopin’, The Hour I First Believed, I Know This Much Is True, and She’s Come Undone. Wally also edited Couldn’t Keep It to Myself and I’ll Fly Away, two volumes of essays from students in his writing workshop at York Correctional Institution, a women’s prison in Connecticut, where he was a volunteer facilitator for twenty years. This is a conversation about addiction, redemption and forgiveness, and how faith and culture influence our art.

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The best part of a book tour is seeing all of you. You showed up in 24 sold out cities to celebrate The View from Lake Como, and we had a ball! Your reviews for The View from Lake Como have meant the world, and your questions are illuminating. On this week’s episode of You Are What You Read, we are joined by… you! This week is dedicated to the thousands of you who joined us at events and shared your stories with us. Select events featured audience Q&As that we would like to share with you today. From Cleveland, OH to Westport, CT to Richmond, VA, your questions moved us and delighted us. 

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