This episode featured Amanda Goldblatt, author of “Hard Mouth,” out now from Counterpoint. This episode was taped in front of a live studio audience at the Dial on January 16 and first aired on January 26, 2020.

This episode featured Don Hayner, the author of “Binga: The Rise and Fall of Chicago’s First Black Banker,” out now from Northwestern. This episode first aired on January 12, 2020

This episode featured Tom O’Neill, author of “Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties” out now from Little, Brown and Co. This episode first aired on December 15 2019.

This episode featured Dr Ben Alexander, the editor of The Letters of Flannery O’Connor: “Good Things Out Of Nazareth” out now from Convergent. This episode first aired on December 1 2019.

This episode featured Jac Jemc, author of “False Bingo,” out now from Farrar Strauss And Giroux. This episode was taped in front of a live studio audience at the Dial on November 21 and first aired on November 24, 2019.

This episode featured Christine Sneed, author of “The Virginity of Famous Men,” out now from Bloomsbury. This episode first aired November 10, 2019.

This episode featured Helen Dewitt, author of “The Last Samurai” and “Some Trick,” both out now from New Directions. This episode first aired October 27, 2019.

This episode featured Jim DeRogatis, author of “Soulless: The Case Against R. Kelly” out now from Abrams. This episode was taped in front of a live studio audience at the Dial Bookshop on October 17 and first aired on October 24, 2019.

This episode featured Marc Fisher of Public Collectors. Public Collectors’ many publications are available from Half Letter Press. This episode first aired on September 29, 2019.

This episode featured Colin Asher, author of “Never A Lovely So Real,” a biography of Nelson Algren, out now from WW Norton. This episode first aired on September 1, 2019.