On this edition of Conversations, Dan Pucci and Graig Cavallo talk with host Dan Skinner about "American Cider: A Modern Guide to a Historic Beverage." Pucci is one of the nation's leading cider experts. He was the founding beverage director at New York City's first cider bar and restaurant, and has since traveled the country in a continued pursuit of cider education, awareness, and research.

On this edition of Conversations, Michelle D. Commander talks with host Dan Skinner about “UNSUNG: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition.” Commander is Associate Director and Curator of the Lapidus Center at Harlem, New York’s Schomburg Center. The book features slave and abolition narratives that provide a bigger picture of slaves' lives and efforts to end slavery. 

On this edition of Conversations, Ian Rosenberg talks with host Dan Skinner about “The Fight for Free Speech: Ten Cases That Define Our First Amendment Freedoms.” Rosenberg is a media lawyer and Emmy-Nominated filmmaker, who teaches media law at Brooklyn College and has worked as a legal counsel for ABC News since 2003.

On this edition of Conversations, Randi Pink talks with host Dan Skinner about "The Angel of Greenwood." This Young Adult novel is set during the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. She discusses her research and the history behind the novel. Pink’s previous books include “Girls Like Us” and “Into White.”

On this edition of Conversations, Gordon Javna talks with host Dan Skinner about “Uncle John’s Greatest Know on Earth: Curiosities, Rarities & Amazing Oddities.” Javna is the editor-in-chief and publisher of the “Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader” series, which has become the longest-running, most popular series of its kind in the publishing industry with over 15 million copies in print.