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2017
  1. Waves Abound Zoë Keating, Eli Brown, Sedge Thomson GAMH - August 05, 2017
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2016
  1. coming soon
2015
  1. Nick Papadopoulous, CropMobster - December 19, 2015
  2. Steve Silberman, NeuroTribes - October 3, 2015
  3. The Good Life Experience -September 26, 2015
2014
  1. A. Scott Berg, Wilson - September 27, 2014
  2. Eric Schlosser, Command and Control - September 27, 2014
  3. Charles Saumarez Smith, Royal Academy of Arts - February 1, 2014
2013
  1. Dave Barry, Insane City - February 9, 2013
  2. Mo Willems - February 9, 2013
  3. Paul Theroux, Zona Verde - May 20, 2013
2012
  1. Claire Peaslee - December 22, 2012
  2. Anne Lamott, Help Thanks Wow - December 15, 2012 
  3. Raymond Offenheiser, Oxfam America - July 21, 2012
  4. Raj Patel, Stuffed and Starved - July 21, 2012
  5. Alice Waters, Owner of Chez Panisse Restaurant - July 21, 2012
  6. Raj Patel, Raymond Offenheiser & Alice Waters - July 21, 2012
  7. Howard Rheingold, Netsmart: How to Thrive Online - June 16, 2012
  8. Dhaya Lakshminarayanan - June 16, 2012
  9. Juliet Bell (aka Sylvia Brownrigg), Kepler's Dream - May 12, 2012
  10. Edmund White, Jack Holmes and His Friend - February 4, 2012
  11. Barbara Babcock, Woman Lawyer - February 4, 2012
  12. Maira Kalman, Why We Broke Up - February 4, 2012
  13. Ellis Avery, The Last Nude - January 14, 2012
  14. Nicholas de Monchaux, Fashioning Apollo - January 14, 2012
  15. Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom - January 7, 2012
2011
  1. Thomas Steinbeck, The Silver Lotus - December 10, 2011
  2. Mark Bowden, Worm: The First Digital World War - October 22, 2011
  3. Courtney E Smith, Record Collecting for Girls - September 10, 2011
  4. Rita Moreno, Life WIthout Makeup - September 10, 2011
  5. Adam Hochschild, To End All Wars - April 30, 2011
  6. Eric Greitens, The Heart and The Fist - April 30, 2011
  7. Daniel Clowes - April 23, 2011
  8. Donovan Hohn, Moby Duck & Susan Freinkel, Plastic - April 23, 2011
  9. Jacques d'Amboise, I Was a Dancer - April 9, 2011
  10. Joyce Carol Oates, A Widow's Story - April 2, 2011
2010
  1. Judy Chicago, Frida Kahlo: Face to Face - December 11, 2010
  2. Coleman Barks, Rumi the Big Red Book - December 11, 2010
  3. Armistead Maupin, Mary Ann in Autumn - December 11, 2010
  4. Daniel Handler AKA Lemony Snicket, 13 Words - November 13, 2010
  5. Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy - November 13, 2010
  6. Alice Walker,  Hard Times Require Furious Dancing - October 30, 2010
  7. Alexander McCall Smith, The Lost Art of Gratitude - October 23, 2010
  8. Julia Butterfly Hill, The Legacy of Luna - April 17, 2010
  9. Zachary Mason, The Lost Books of Odysseus - March 6, 2010
  10. TC Boyle, Wild Child - February 20, 2010

2009

  1. Andre Agassi, Open: An Autobiography - November 21, 2009
  2. Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals - November 7, 2009
  3. John Irving, Last Night in Twisted River - November 7, 2009
  4. Ben Fong Torres - August 8, 2009
  5. Ruth Reichl, Not Becoming my Mother - May 9, 2009
  6. Geoffrey Masson - May 2, 2009
  7. Jane E Smith - May 2, 2009
  8. Jane Vandenburgh - April 25, 2009
  9. Lynn Freed - April 25, 2009
  10. Alva Noe - April 11, 2009
  11. Brenda Webster - April 11, 2009 
  12. Alan Boss  - March 14, 2009
  13. Zoe Heller, The Believers - March 7, 2009
  14. Barry Jenkins, Medicine for Melancholy - March 7, 2009
  15. Joe Gores, Spade and Archer - February 28, 2009
  16. Jacqueline Winspear, Among the Mad - February 28, 2009
  17. Stacey D'Erasmo, The Sky Below - January 17, 2009
  18. Robert Roper, Now the Drum of War - January 17, 2009
  19. Wes Nisker - January 10, 2009
2008
  1. Spain Rodriguez, CHE, A Graphic Biography - December 13, 2008
  2. Maxine Hong Kingston - November 29, 2008
  3. Toni Morrison, A Mercy - November 22, 2008
  4. Eoin Colfer, The Worst Boy in the World - May 24, 2008
  5. Sylvia Brownrigg, Morality Tale - May 10, 2008
  6. Rabih Alameddine, Hakawati - May 10, 2008
  7. Robert Bly and Eavan Boland - May 3, 2008
  8. Elizabeth McKenzie, McGregor Tells the World - May 3, 2008
  9. Richard Price, Lush Life - March 29, 2008
  10. Gene Hackman and Daniel Lenihan, Wake of the Perdido Star - February 16, 2008
  11. James McBride, Song Yet Sung - February 9, 2008
  12. Roy Blount Jr, Long Time Leaving - February 2, 2008
  13. Calvin Trillin - February 2, 2008
  14. Ricki Lake & Abby Epstein, The Business of Being Born - January 19, 2008
  15. Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food  - January 19, 2008
2007
  1. Robert Hass, Time and Materials - December 8, 2007
  2. Alice Waters, The Art of Simple Food - November 24, 2007
  3. Bill Pullman - September 8, 2007
  4. Michael Chabon - June 16, 2007
  5. Josh Waitzkin, Searching for Bobby Fisher - June 16, 2007
  6. Mal Sharpe - May 26, 2007
  7. Helen Simpson, In the Driver's Seat - May 26, 2007
  8. Julia Whitty - May 26, 2007
  9. Bill Bryson - May 12, 2007
2006
  1. Craig Newmark - November 4, 2006
  2. Mark Childress, One Mississippi - August 19, 2006
  3. Carolyn Cooke - August 12, 2006
  4. Sylvia Brownrigg, The Delivery Room - July 8, 2006
  5. Ben Fong Torres, Almost Famous - June 10, 2006
  6. Gary Shteyngart, Absurdistan - May 13, 2006
  7. John Baxter, We'll Always Have Paris - April 1, 2006
  8. Julian Barnes, Arthur and George - February 11, 2006
  9. Mary Roach, Spook- February 4, 2006
  10. Ayelet Waldman, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits - February 4, 2006
  11. Allan Zweibel, The Other Shulman - February 4, 2006
  12. Matthew and Terces Anglehart, The Abounding River - January 28, 2006
2005
  1. Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - December 3, 2005
  2. Michael Recchiuti and Fran Gage - November 26, 2005
  3. Will Durst - October 22, 2005
  4. Howard Junker, Zyzzyva - October 15, 2005
  5. Gus Lee, China Boy - October 15, 2005
  6. Terry McMillan, The Interruption of Everything - August 20, 2005
  7. Melissa Bank, The Wonder Spot - June 11, 2005
  8. David Sedaris, Dress your Family in Corduroy and Denim - June 11, 2005
  9. Robert Bly - May 14, 2005
  10. Marc Ian Barasch, Field Notes on the Compassionate Life - May 7, 2005
  11. SARK, Sark's New Creative Companion: Ways to Free Your Creative Spirit - May 7, 2005
  12. Les Barker - February 19, 2005
  13. Irvin Yalom - February 19, 2005
2004
  1. Nigella Lawson, Feast: Food to Celebrate - November 20, 2004
  2. Maya Angelou - October 16, 2004
  3. Guy Johnson- October 16, 2004
  4. Carl and Karl- October 2, 2004
  5. Annie Somerville, Greens Restaurant Chef - August 28, 2004
  6. David Sedaris - June 19, 2004
  7. Isabel Allende, Adventure Stories, My Invented Country: A Memoir - May 15, 2004
  8. Lang Lang, pianist and raconteur - Nov. 13, 2004
2003
  1. Amy Tan - December 13, 2003
  2. Kathy Kamen Goldmark - August 9, 2003
  3. Sarah Jones - May 17, 2003
  4. Paul Disco - May 3, 2003
  5. Norman Fisher - May 3, 2003
  6. Noah Levine - May 3, 2003
  7. Paul Collins - April 12, 2003
  8. Po Bronson - February 8, 2003
  9. William Gibson - February 8, 2003
  10. Sarah Jones - February 1, 2003
  11. AS Byatt - January 25, 2003
2002
  1. Salman Rushdie - September 28, 2002
  2. Alan Bennett- August 8, 2002
  3. Margaret Cho - July 13, 2002
  4. Anne Packer - July 13, 2002
  5. Eric Schlosser - January 26, 2002
  6. Steve Wozniak - January 26, 2002
  7. Lily Tomlin - January 12, 2002
  8. Rebecca Walker - January 12, 2002
2001
  1. Lawrence Ferlinghetti - October 13, 2001
  2. Dave Eggers & Zadie Smith - July 21, 2001
  3. Doris Haddock "Granny D" - May 5, 2001
2000
  1. David Sedaris - June 17, 2000
  2. Eddie Izzard - June 10, 2000
1999
  1. Spalding Gray - January 2, 1999
1998
  1. Joe Quirk - March 28, 1998
1997
  1. Alice Walker - May 10, 1997
  2. Francesco Rosi - May 3, 1997
  3. Marilyn Yalom - March 1, 1997
  4. Oliver Sacks - February 22, 1997
  5. Dean Koontz - February 22, 1997
  6. Robert Girardi - February 8, 1997
  7. Diane Johnson - February 8, 1997
  8. Diane Ackerman - February 8, 1997
  9. Rigo97 - February 8, 1997
1996
  1. Gary Snyder - December 14, 1996
  2. Julia Child - November 16, 1996
  3. Hettie Jones - October 10, 1996
  4. Dennis Hopper - October 5, 1996
  5. Ruth Weiss - October 12, 1996
  6. Charles Schultz - September 7, 1996
  7. Jennifer Egan - May 9, 1996
  8. Gus Lee - March 30, 1996
  9. Jamaica Kincaid - February 10, 1996
  10. Anne Lamott - January 6, 1996
1995
  1. Tobias Wolff - November 11, 1995
  2. Gregory Maguire - October 14, 1995
  3. David Byrne - October 7, 1995
  4. John Berendt - September 23, 1995
  5. Anne Lamott - June 3, 1995
  6. Ray Bradbury & Robert Watson - June 3, 1995
  7. Paulo Coelho - May 27, 1995
  8. Thomas Keneally - May 6, 1995
  9. Oliver Sacks - March 4, 1995
  10. Helen Palmer - January 21, 1995
1994
  1. Sylvia Earl - December 12, 1994
  2. Anne Lamott - December 12, 1994
  3. Karl and Carl - December 12, 1994
  4. Meredith Tromble - December 12, 1994
  5. Ian Frazier - December 3, 1994
  6. Lucy Grealy - December 3, 1994
  7. Howard Rheingold - December 10, 1994
  8. Josh Kornbluth - October 15, 1994
  9. Naa Kahidi - October 15, 1994
  10. Terry Jones - October 22, 1994
  11. George Takei, To the Stars - September 24, 1994
  12. Allen Ginsberg - September 17, 1994
  13. Michael McClure - August 6, 1994
  14. James Houston - July 9, 1994
  15. Bill Barich - July 2, 1994
  16. Whitfield Diffie - July 2, 1994 
  17. Paul Theroux - March 19, 1994
1991
  1. Sedge Thomson, Total Solar Eclipse, Baja California - July 11, 1991