Writer's Bone

Michael McFaul, former Ambassador to Russia for President Barack Obama and NBC News contributor, joins Daniel Ford on the show to discuss his new book Autocrats vs. Democrats: China, Russia, America, and the New Global Disorder. To learn more about Ambassador Michael McFaul, visit his official website. This episode is sponsored by The Dark Road by Kathleen Rhodes and Libro.fm.

On the latest Friday Morning Coffee, Caitlin Malcuit, with an assist from the late comedian George Carlin, discusses poverty and homelessness in America (and who is getting rich off of both).  Author and activist David Ambroz then joins Daniel Ford to chat about his memoir A Place Called Home.  To learn more about David Ambroz, visit his official website. This episode is sponsored by The Dark Road by Kathleen Rhodes and Libro.fm.

Author and journalist Jeff Pearlman returns to the show and chats with Daniel Ford about his latest book Only God Can Judge Me: The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur. To learn more about Jeff Pearlman, visit his official website. Also listen to our first interview with the author and subscribe to his podcast "Two Writers Slinging Yang." This episode is sponsored by The Dark Road by Kathleen Rhodes and Libro.fm.

Author Mary Roach returns to the show to discuss her latest book Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy.  To learn more about Mary Roach, visit her official website. Also listen to our past interview with the author in Episode 198 and Friday Morning Coffee. This episode is sponsored by The Dark Road by Kathleen Rhodes and Libro.fm.

On the latest Friday Morning Coffee, host Caitlin Malcuit discusses why it's healthy and helpful to question and explore the seedier aspects of our nostalgic fandom.  Author and journalist Joshua Moore then joins Daniel Ford to chat about his book Morphenomenal: How the Power Rangers Conquered the World. To learn more about Joshua Moore, visit his official website.  This episode is sponsored by The Dark Road by Kathleen Rhodes and Libro.fm.

Author Sam Sussman joins Daniel Ford on the show to discuss his debut novel Boy From the North Country.  To learn more about Sam Sussman, visit his official website. Also read his piece "The Silent Type: On (Possibly) Being Bob Dylan’s Son" in Harper's Magazine. This episode is sponsored by The Dark Road by Kathleen Rhodes and Libro.fm.

Author and comedian Amy Silverberg chats with Daniel Ford about her debut novel First Time, Long Time.  To learn more about Amy Silverberg, visit her official website. Also listen to her appearance on Daniel Paisner's As Told To: The Ghostwriting Podcast. This episode is sponsored by Accountability Workshops' Fall Writing Camp, The Dark Road by Kathleen Rhodes, As Told To: The Ghostwriting Podcast, and Libro.fm.

Author and journalist Peter Ames Carlin joins Daniel Ford on the show to discuss his book Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run. To learn more about Peter Ames Carlin, visit his official website. This episode is sponsored by Accountability Workshops' Fall Writing Camp, The Dark Road by Kathleen Rhodes, and Libro.fm.

Author Sara Reish Desmond joins Daniel Ford on the show to discuss her debut short story collection What We Might Become.  To learn more about Sara Reish Desmond, visit her official website. This episode is sponsored by Accountability Workshops' Fall Writing Camp, The Dark Road by Kathleen Rhodes, and Libro.fm.

In honor of today's guest and subject matter, host Caitlin Malcuit talks about what author and journalist Robert W. Fieseler might call  "the Floridafication" of the United States and how minority rights are still under attack in the Sunshine State. Then, Fieseler returns to the show and chats with Daniel Ford about his latest book American Scare: Florida's Hidden Cold War on Black and Queer Lives. To learn more about Robert W. Fieseler, visit his official website and listen to our first interview with the author in Episode 362. Also read his column in The Tampa Bay Times about the 1951 murder of Harry T. Moore, president of the Florida Conference of the NAACP. This episode is sponsored by Accountability Workshops' Fall Writing Camp, The Dark Road by Kathleen Rhodes, and Libro.fm.

Author Dave Patterson (Soon All the Light Will Be Perfect) returns to the show and chats with Daniel Ford about his short story collection Euphoria. To learn more about Dave Patterson, visit his official website or listen to our first interview with the author in Episode 353. Also stop by his Euphoria book event, emceed by Richard Russo, at Print: A Bookstore in Portland, Maine, on Aug. 12 from 7 - 8 p.m. This episode is sponsored by Accountability Workshops' Fall Writing Camp, The Dark Road by Kathleen Rhodes and Libro.fm.

Author C.M. Kushins (Nothing’s Bad Luck: The Lives of Warren Zevon, Beast: John Bonham and the Rise of Led Zeppelin) joins Daniel Ford on the show to discuss his book Cooler Than Cool: The Life and Work of Elmore Leonard. This episode is sponsored by The Dark Road by Kathleen Rhodes and Libro.fm.

Host Caitlin Malcuit discusses the "chop and drop" gardening method and how new insights into how erosion fosters river creation could aid in river restoration and rehabilitation. Then, author Dheepa R. Maturi joins Daniel Ford on the show to chat about her eco-thriller 108. To learn more about Dheepa R. Maturi, visit her official website. This episode is sponsored by The Dark Road by Kathleen Rhodes and Libro.fm.

Local Reading, Mass., author Claudette Sabbag chats with Daniel Ford at the Writer's Collaborative Learning Center about her debut novel Deer in the Road. This episode is sponsored by The Dark Road by Kathleen Rhodes and Libro.fm.

Legendary Washington Post journalist and columnist, Washington D.C. insider, and author Sally Quinn joins Daniel Ford on the show to discuss her latest novel Silent Retreat.  To learn more about Sally Quinn, visit her official website. Also read her Washington Post column about her husband Ben Bradlee's struggle with Alzheimer's. This episode is sponsored by The Dark Road by Kathleen Rhodes and Libro.fm.

On the latest Friday Morning Coffee episode, host Caitlin Malcuit discusses Pura Belpré, New York City's first Puerto Rican librarian. Author Allison King then chats with Daniel Ford about her debut The Phoenix Pencil Company. To learn more about Allison King, visit her official website. Also catch her at Porter Square Books on July 24.  This episode is sponsored by The Dark Road by Kathleen Rhodes and Libro.fm.

Author Peter Swanson (The Kind Worth Killing, Eight Perfect Murders) returns to the show and chats with Daniel Ford about his latest book Kill Your Darlings. To learn more about Peter Swanson, visit his official website. Also listen to our preview interviews with the author in Episode 410 and Episode 279.  This episode is sponsored by The Dark Road by Kathleen Rhodes and Libro.fm.

Author Michelle Huneven (Search, Off Course) joins Daniel Ford on the show to discuss her latest novel Bug Hollow. To learn more about Michelle Huneven, visit her official website. Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by Libro.fm.  

Author and historian Greg Grandin (The Empire of Necessity, Fordlandia, Empire’s Workshop) joins Daniel Ford to discuss his latest book America, América: A New History of the New World. To learn more about Greg Grandin, visit his official website. Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by Libro.fm.

Author and journalist Rachel Slade talks with Caitlin Malcuit and Daniel Ford about her book Making It in America: The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the U.S.A. (And How It Got That Way), which is now out in paperback. To learn more about Rachel Slade, visit her official website. Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by Libro.fm.