Writer's Bone

Max Greenfield ("The Neighborhood," "New Girl") joins Daniel and Stephanie Ford on the show to chat about his new children's book I Don't Want to Read This Book.  To learn more about Max Greenfield, follow him on Twitter and Instagram. Catch Greenfield on "The Neighborhood" on CBS. Today’s episode is sponsored by Libro.fm.

Filmmaker and author Nick Davis joins Daniel Ford on the show to discuss his book Competing with Idiots: Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait. Davis also chats about his ESPN 30 for 30 for 30 documentary "Once Upon a Time in Queens." To learn more about Nick Davis, visit his official website and follow him on Twitter and Instagram. Competing with Idiots was featured in October 2021's "Books That Should Be On Your Radar." Today’s episode is sponsored by Libro.fm.

Sam Quinones, author of Dreamland, returns to chat with Daniel Ford on Friday Morning Coffee about his new book, The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth. Caitlin Malcuit also shares some thoughts about America's opioid epidemic. "The TL;DR version is that too much focus—when it comes to prevention, harm reduction, and so on—is on the individual rather than the systems that get people stuck in the first place,” she says. To learn more about Sam Quinones, visit his official website, like his Facebook page, and follow him on Twitter and Instagram. Also listen to our first interview with the author in Episode 253. Today's Friday Morning Coffee episode is sponsored by Libro.fm.

Louise Erdrich, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Night Watchman, joins Daniel Ford on the show to discuss her latest book, The Sentence. "I always wanted to write a ghost story," Erdrich tells Ford. "I always wanted to write about a supernatural presence that wouldn't let you go." You can learn more about Louise Erdrich and her bookstore Birchbark Books by visiting their website, liking their Facebook page, and following them on Twitter and Instagram. Today’s episode is sponsored by Libro.fm.

Authors Lee and Andrew Child join Daniel Ford on the show to talk about the latest Jack Reacher thriller Better Off Dead. Follow Lee on Twitter and Instagram. Follow Andrew on Twitter and Instagram. Better Off Dead was featured in October's "Books That Should Be On Your Radar." Today's episode is sponsored by Libro.fm.

Happy Halloween! In a special bonus episode, Rachel Harrison, author of The Return, chats with Daniel Ford about her latest novel Cackle. "I wanted to explore folk-horror and also destructing a fairy tale," Harrison tells Ford. "I go with my instincts and let the book what it's trying to be and not fight against it." To learn more about Rachel Harrison, visit her official website and follow her on Twitter and Instagram. Cackle was featured in October 2021's "Books That Should Be On Your Radar." Also listen to our first interview with Harrison, as well as her guest interviews with Elisabeth Thomas, Clay McLeod Chapman, Adam Cesare, and Shaun Hamill. Today’s episode is sponsored by Libro.fm.

On this week's Friday Morning Coffee, we welcome author and journalist Jan Brogan. She chats with Daniel Ford about her book The Combat Zone: Murder, Race and Boston’s Struggle for Justice. Caitlin Malcuit also discusses some of the racial, political, and sociological issues facing Boston's past and present. To learn more about Jan Brogan, visit her official website, like her Facebook page, and follow her on Twitter and Instagram. The Combat Zone was featured in September 2021's "Books That Should Be On Your Radar." Today's Friday Morning Coffee is sponsored by Libro.fm.

Wicked author Gregory Maguire chats with Daniel Ford about his new book The Brides of Maracoor, the first in the Another Day series. "I had no other responsibility but to follow Rain in my little author's rowboat and see what happened to her," Maguire tells Ford. To learn more about Gregory Maguire, visit his official website. Today’s episode is sponsored by Libro.fm.

Author Jayne Allen talks with Daniel Ford about her novel Black Girls Must Die Exhausted. "There's a lot of competition for readers' attention these days," Allen tells Ford. "Readers aren't only readers. What is going to make someone choose my eight hours over binging something?" To learn more about Jayne Allen, visit her official website, like her Facebook page, and follow her on Twitter and Instagram. Today’s episode is sponsored by Libro.fm.

Julia Dahl joins Daniel Ford on Friday Morning Coffee to chat about her latest novel The Missing Hours. Caitlin Malcuit also discusses a World Health Organization report on violence against women, as well as work being done by Not Our Native Daughters, National Organization of Sisters of Color Ending Sexual Assault, The National Organization of Asians and Pacific Islanders Ending Sexual Violence, The Anti-Violence Project, The National Center for Transgender Equality, and The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. To learn more about Julia Dahl, visit her official website, like her Facebook page, and follow her on Twitter and Instagram. The Missing Hours was featured in August 2021's "Books That Should Be On Your Radar." Today’s Friday Morning Coffee episode is sponsored by Libro.fm.

We celebrate our 500th episode with the help of Pop Literacy hosts Jennifer Keishin Armstrong and Kimberly Potts. They share some pop culture book and TV recommendations with Daniel Ford and share some lessons they've learned about podcasting (0:51 - 41:56). Two-time National Book Award finalist Lauren Groff then joins Daniel on the show to discuss her latest book Matrix (43:07 - 1:06:35). Groff explains to us how she went about crafting a story set in 12th century and featuring Marie de France as the main character. To learn more about Lauren Groff, visit her official website and follow her on Twitter. Matrix was featured in September 2021’s “Books That Should Be On Your Radar.” To learn more about Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, visit her official website, like her Facebook page, and follow her on Twitter and Instagram. To learn more about Kimberly Potts, visit her official website and follow her on Twitter and Instagram. Also subscribe to Pop Literacy and pick up When Women Invented Television and The Way We A

We head to the U.K. for Episode 499! Author Jo Hamya chats with Daniel Ford about her debut Three Rooms. "I'm finding increasingly weirder ways to construct a sentence is what keeps me interested," says Hamya.  To learn more about Jo Hamya, follow her on Twitter. Three Rooms was featured in August 2021's "Books That Should Be On Your Radar." Today’s episode is sponsored by Libro.fm.

On today's Friday Morning Coffee, Mary Roach, author of Fuzz, tells Daniel Ford all about animals behaving badly (or more accurately, hungrily). Caitlin Malcuit also discusses the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposing delisting 23 species from the Endangered Species Act because they are extinct. To learn more about Mary Roach, visit her official website and follow her on Twitter. Also listen to our first conversation with the author in Episode 198. Fuzz was featured in September 2021's "Books That Should Be On Your Radar." Today’s Friday Morning Coffee episode is sponsored by Libro.fm.

Author, sportswriter, podcaster Joe Posnanski returns to the show to discuss his book The Baseball 100. Posnanski tells Daniel Ford about the metric he used to compile the greatest 100 baseball players of all time, the Field of Dreams game held earlier this year, and what it meant to him to research and include Negro League players on his list.  Ford is also joined by new hotshot podcaster, legendary ghostwriter, and hardball author Daniel Paisner. The pair discuss what Paisner has learned from his fellow ghostwriters and some of his favorite baseball players of all time. To learn more about Joe Posnanski, visit his official website, like his Facebook page, and follow him on Twitter and Instagram. Also listen to Rebecca Weston's interview with the author and subscribe to The Podcast, which Posnanski hosts with television guru Michael Schur. To learn more about Daniel Paisner, visit his official website, like his Facebook page, and follow him on Twitter and Instagram. Also subscribe to As Told To: The Ghostwr

Author María Amparo Escandón joins Daniel Ford on the show to discuss her latest novel L.A. Weather, which is a Reese's Book Club selection. "My grandmother taught me the difference between a lie and a story," Escandón tells Ford. "How stories are fun and lies are hurtful. She gave me a notebook and told me, 'Go on, write your lies here.'" To learn more about María Amparo Escandón, visit her official website, like her Facebook page, and follow her on Twitter and Instagram. Today’s episode is sponsored by Libro.fm and As Told To: The Ghostwriting Podcast.

A double shot for today's Friday Morning Coffee! Authors Nekesa Asia and John Fram join Daniel Ford to chat about their work. Caitlin Malcuit also discusses the thrills and mysteries involved in being in a band with no name. To learn more about Nekesa Asia, visit her official website and follow her on Twitter and Instagram. Dead Dead Girls was featured in June 2021's "Books That Should Be On Your Radar." To learn more about John Fram, visit his official website and follow him on Twitter and Instagram. The Bright Lands was featured in August 2020's "Books That Should Be On Your Radar." Today’s Friday Morning Coffee episode is sponsored by Libro.fm and As Told To: The Ghostwriting Podcast.

Author Paula Hawkins (The Girl on the Train, Into the Water) joins Daniel Ford on the show to discuss her latest novel A Slow Fire Burning. "One of the things I thought about a lot writing this novel is what is appropriate justice? Who gets what they deserve?" Hawkins tells Ford. "Should you restore order to the world? Is that your obligation as a crime novelist? Or should you be realistic?" To learn more about Paula Hawkins, visit her official website and follow her on Facebook and Instagram. Also read our print interview with the author from 2015. Today’s episode is sponsored by Libro.fm, As Told To: The Ghostwriting Podcast, and Basic Pitches.

Author James Tate Hill (Academy Gothic) joins Daniel Ford on the show to chat about his memoir Blind Man's Bluff. "Follow your obsessions," Tate tells Ford. "They're probably connected to something that can very easily become a story that would be very entertaining to an audience or useful to you as a writer to explore." To learn more about James Tate Hill, visit his official website and follow him on Facebook and Twitter. Blind Man's Bluff was featured in August 2021's "Books That Should Be On Your Radar." Also listen to the author's appearance on Pop Literacy. Today’s episode is sponsored by Libro.fm and As Told To: The Ghostwriting Podcast.

Author and playwright Kia Corthron joins Daniel Ford on Friday Morning Coffee to chat about her latest novel Moon and the Mars. Caitlin Malcuit and Daniel also discuss the dumpster fire news cycle from the past week.  To learn more about Kia Corthron, visit her official website and follow her on Twitter. Moon and the Mars was featured in August 2021's "Books That Should Be On Your Radar." Today’s Friday Morning Coffee episode is sponsored by Libro.fm and As Told To: The Ghostwriting Podcast.

Author Katie Crouch joins Daniel Ford on the show to chat about her novel Embassy Wife. To learn more about Katie Crouch, follow her on Twitter and Instagram. Embassy Wife was featured in July 2021's "Books That Should Be On Your Radar." Today’s episode is sponsored by Libro.fm and As Told To: The Ghostwriting Podcast.