Talks & Entertainment

Senator Tammy Duckworth

In Conversation with Weijia Jiang

The biracial daughter of an American father and a Thai-Chinese mother, Sen. Duckworth faced discrimination, poverty, and the horrors of war—all before the age of 16. She joined the Army as one of a few female helicopter pilots at the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom, serving eight months before an attack that nearly took her life. From childhood to public service to motherhood, Every Day is a Gift shares the amazingly resilient stories from an incomparable life.

CANCELED – Pepper Teigen

In her debut cookbook, The Pepper Thai Cookbook: Family Recipes From Everyone’s Favorite Thai Mom, Pepper offers 80 stir-fried, saucy, sweet and tangy Thai-style recipes including fried chicken larb, pad Thai brussels sprouts, lemongrass chicken, and the scalloped potatoes. She also shares stories from her life, from the early days of adjusting to living in the U.S. to what it’s like to live with America’s favorite food family.

Molly Baz

In Conversation with Ruth Reichl

In her highly anticipated debut cookbook, Cook This Book, the food editor and recipe developer delivers a new kind of foundational cookbook that will equip readers with the tools to become better, more efficient cooks with clear and uncomplicated recipes designed to teach.

Justin Baldoni

In Man Enough: Undefining My Masculinity, the actor and director digs deep within himself and the scripts he’s learned since childhood to tackle difficult topics including strength and vulnerability, relationships and marriage, body image, sex and sexuality, racial justice, gender equality, and fatherhood.

Malcolm Gladwell

In Conversation with Dan Pink

In The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, A Temptation, and The Longest Night of the Second World War, the five-time New York Times bestselling author delves deep into questions of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war.

Anna Sale

In Conversation with Nadia Bolz-Weber

In Let’s Talk About Hard Things, the host of WNYC’s award-winning podcast “Death, Sex, & Money” employs the best of what she’s learned from her podcast to share why having tough conversations is important and how to have them in a thoughtful and generous way.

Casey Wilson

In Conversation with Adam Pally

In The Wreckage of My Presence, the actor and co-host of the hit podcast “Bitch Sesh” shares her thoughts on modern-day womanhood and motherhood and argues that lowbrow pop culture is the perfect lens through which to examine human nature

Senator Amy Klobuchar

In Conversation with Kara Swisher

In Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age, the senior senator from Minnesota presents the history of antitrust in America and the way forward to protect all Americans from the dangers of curtailed competition, and from vast information gathering, through monopolies.