Jun 13, 2025
Matt Crawford speaks with author George Zavershinskiy about his book, The Atomic Shepard. Amid Cold War tensions, a gifted nuclear physicist – poised to become the future father of new weapons – shockingly gains religious faith. Seeking to confess this revelation, he enters the priesthood, finding purpose but...
Jun 12, 2025
Matt Crawford speaks with author Christina Li about her debut adult novel, The Manor of Dreams. Vivian Yin is dead. The first Chinese actress to win an Oscar, the trailblazing ingénue rose to fame in the eighties, only to disappear from the spotlight at the height of her career to live out the rest of her life as...
Nov 6, 2024
Matt Crawford speaks to National Geographic photographer and author Jason Edwards about his book, Icebergs to Iguanas. Jason Edwards is a National Geographic photographer and television presenter. He’s been bitten, clawed, chased, chewed, shot at, and stoned (with rocks), defecated and urinated on; smuggled,...
Jun 14, 2023
Matt Crawford speaks with author Neil King Jr. about his book, American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal. A desire to walk from Washington D.C, to New York City began as a whim and then quickly formed into an obsession for King. By the spring of 2021 amongst the backdrop of one of the most pivotal years in...
Dec 8, 2022
Matt Crawford speaks with Rita Katz about her book, Saints and Soldiers. More than a decade ago, counterterrorism expert Rita Katz began browsing white supremacist and neo-Nazi forums. Immediately Katz recognized the pattern of recruitment and radicalization used by jihadist militants and the danger it posed, but law...