On this edition of Conversations, Jerry Saltz talks with host Dan Skinner about his book, “How to be an Artist.” Saltz is the senior art critic at New York magazine and its entertainment site Vulture. He is the winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism and a 2019 National Magazine Award. Before joining New York magazine in 2007, Saltz was a critic for The Village Voice since 1998.

On this edition of Conversations, Richard Cahan talks with host Dan Skinner about "River of Blood: American Slavery from the People Who Lived It." Cahan is a journalist who writes about photography, art and history. Working together as photo historians, Richard Cahan and Michael Williams have authored more than a dozen books based on major photo collections.

On this edition of Conversations, Kris Ercums, the Curator of Global Contemporary and Asian Art at the Spencer Museum of Art, talks with host Dan Skinner about the exhibit, "Staging Shimomura."

On this edition of Conversations, Clare Pooley talks with host Dan Skinner about her debut novel, The Authenticity Project. The novel grew out of her decision to create the blog Mummy Was a Secret Drinker and to answer the question,"What would happen if we told the truth about our lives?"

On this edition of Conversations, Alejandro Frid talks with host Dan Skinner about his latest book, Changing Tides: An Ecologist’s Journey to Make Peace with the Anthropocene. Frid is an ecologist for the First Nations of British Columbia’s Central Coast and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Victoria.