On this edition of Conversations, Jeffery Deaver talks with host Dan Skinner about his latest novel featuring the character Colter Shaw, it’s an action-packed suspense thriller called “The Final Twist.” Deaver is the #1 international bestselling and award-winning author of more than forty novels, three collections of short stories, and a nonfiction law book. In addition to being an author, Deaver is a former journalist, folksinger, and attorney. 

On this edition of Conversations, Ashley Elston talks with host Dan Skinner about her latest YA novel, "10 Truths and a Dare." Elston is the author of several novels including: “10 Blind Dates,” “The Rules for Disappearing,” “This Is Our Story,” and “The Lying Woods.” Although written for a young adult audience, Elston's novels have many adult readers as well.

On this edition of Conversations, Dorothy Wickenden talks with host Dan Skinner about “The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women’s Rights.” Wickenden has served as the executive editor of The New Yorker since January 1996.

On this edition of Conversations, Julia Sweig talks with host Dan Skinner about “Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight.” Sweig is an award-winning author of books on Cuba, Latin America, and American foreign policy. She served as a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations for fifteen years and she is a senior research fellow at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.

On this edition of Conversations, Claudia Kalb talks with host Dan Skinner about “Spark: How Genius Ignites, From Child Prodigies to Late Bloomers." Kalb is an award-winning author and journalist who reports on health, science, and human behavior. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller “Andy Warhol Was a Hoarder: Inside the Minds of History’s Great Personalities” as well as a series of cover stories for National Geographic on the origins of genius.