Friends & Fiction

• Friends & Fiction with Kristin Harmel

  On this episode, the full F&F family gathers to welcome this month’s F&F Featured Author, New York Times bestselling novelist and F&F'smvery own Kristin Harmel to discuss her electrifying new novel, our June 2025 Pick of the Month, The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau, about two jewel thieves, a priceless bracelet that disappears in 1940s Paris, and a quest for answers in a decades-old murder. Kristin is the New York Times, USA Today, and #1 internationally bestselling author of more than a dozen novels including The Forest of Vanishing Stars, The Book of Lost Names, The Room on Rue Amélie, and The Sweetness of Forgetting. Her books are published in more than thirty languages and are sold all over the world, and many of them have been optioned for film and television. Prior to her first book being published in 2006, Kristin had a long magazine writing career, primarily at PEOPLE magazine, and was a frequent contributor to the national television morning show The Daily Buzz. She joins us from her home in Orlando, Florida before embarking on a 2-week book tour to discuss this “dazzling diamond of a novel” (Hazel Gaynor) that Fiona Davis calls “joyous and ultimately triumphant.”

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• The Frieds & Fiction Beach Party Official Kick-Off to Summer 2025

  On this episode, Meg Walker and Mary Kay Andrews (Summers at the Saint, new in paperback 6/3) welcome 6 author guests, all with new summer reads hitting this season. We invited Annabel Monaghan (It’s a Love Story, 5/27), Martha Hall Kelly (The Martha’s Vineyard Beach and Book Club, 5/27), Meg Mitchell Moore (Mansion Beach, 5/27), Amy Mason Doan (The California Dreamers, 4/8), Wendy Francis (Betting on Good, 5/1), and Brooke Lea Foster (Our Last Vineyard Summer, 7/1) to join us for a festive kick-off to summer where we learn all about each of their new books, chat about beach reads, and engage in a fun summer-themed lightning round.

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• Friends & Fiction with Kristina McMorris

  On this episode, Kristin Harmel & Patti Callahan Henry welcome New York Times bestselling author Kristina McMorris to discuss her latest work of historical fiction, THE GIRLS OF GOOD FORTUNE, which shines a light on shocking events surrounding Portland's dark history. Kristina is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of two novellas and seven historical novels, including the million-copy bestseller SOLD ON A MONDAY. The recipient of more than twenty national literary awards, she previously hosted weekly TV shows for Warner Bros. and an ABC affiliate, beginning at age nine with an Emmy Award-winning program. Kristina joins us from her home near Portland, Oregon, to discuss THE GIRLS OF GOOD FORTUNE (Sourcebooks, May 20), a gripping novel of love, lore, and betrayal which has been called a “page-turning, propulsive read,” by Fiona Davis and “a captivating blend of intrigue and heart,” by Jean Kwok.

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• Friends & Fiction with Kristy Woodson Harvey

  On this episode, the Fab Four gather to welcome this month’s F&F Featured Author, New York Times bestselling, award-winning author Kristy Woodson Harvey, to discuss her delightfully moving new novel, our May 2025 Pick of the Month, Beach House Rules, about a mother-daughter duo learning to lean on their community of women—and each other—after their world is turned upside down. Kristy is the NYT-bestselling author of a dozen novels, including The Wedding Veil, Under the Southern Sky, and The Peachtree Bluff series. A Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s school of journalism, her writing has appeared in Southern Living, Traditional Home, USA TODAY, Domino, and O. Henry. Kristy is the winner of the Lucy Bramlette Patterson Award for Excellence in Creative Writing and a finalist for the Southern Book Prize and she blogs with her mom, Beth Woodson, on Design Chic. She joins us from her home in coastal North Carolina before heading out on a massive tour to support Beach House Rules, which Booklist, in a starred review, calls, “charming and beachy in the best way.” These LIVE launch episodes are always a blast and you do not want to miss this!

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• Friends & Fiction with Ruth Reichl

  On this episode, Ron Block & Kristin Harmel welcome New York Times bestselling author and award-winning food editor and restaurant critic Ruth Reichl to discuss her book THE PARIS NOVEL, which was an instant bestseller that met with rave reviews in hardcover last year and was recently released in trade paperback. Ruth is the NYT-bestselling author of five memoirs (including SAVE ME THE PLUMS), the novel DELICIOUS!, and the cookbook MY KITCHEN YEAR. A former restaurant critic for both The Los Angeles Times and the New York Times and Editor-in-Chief of Gourmet Magazine, Ruth has been honored with six James Beard Awards and the James Beard Lifetime Achievement Award. An adventure through the food, art, and fashion scenes of 1980s Paris, Ruth’s THE PARIS NOVEL was called “mouthwatering” by the New York Times, “an enchanting and irresistible feast” by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, and named a Best Book of the Year by Saveur and Food & Wine. Our resident cookbook reviewer and James Beard judge, Ron Block, and our very own Paris expert, Kristin Harmel, are so excited to talk to Ruth all about this irresistible novel that we devoured when it came out in hardcover last year.

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