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This week on You Are What You Read, we are joined by Jayne Anne Phillips to talk about her new memoir, Small Town Girls. Jayne is the author of Black Tickets, Machine Dreams, Fast Lanes, Shelter, MotherKind, Lark and Termite, Quiet Dell, and Night Watch, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2024. Jayne’s work has been a finalist once for the National Book Award and twice for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The recipient of Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, Howard, Bunting, and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships, she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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On this week's episode of You Are What You Read, we are excited to welcome fashion icon Audrey Smaltz. Audrey bas been a trailblazer in the fashion industry for over sixty years, founding the Ground Crew, a backstage operation of high-end modeling shows. Audrey's Ground Crew has teamed up with designers including Michael Kors, Oscar de la Renta, Donna Karan, Vera Wang, Giorgio Armani, and more. Audrey was a student of the first Black model Ophelia DeVore and worked for the Grace del Marco Modeling Agency. In 1970, Smaltz was hired as the Fashion Editor for the Ebony Magazine and commentator the Ebony Fashion Fair in Chicago. Her exquisite style and humor made her an instant hit on the fashion show circuit. Audrey also has worked with numerous major corporations, among them, Macy’s, Sak’s Fifth Avenue, Vogue, Black Entertainment Television, Kmart. She was a contributing editor to Vogue, Mirabella, and Mode magazines.
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On this week's episode of You Are What You Read, we are joined by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline with her latest, This Changes Everything. The author of 38 novels, Lisa is the President of Mystery Writers of America and has been named a Thriller Master by International Thriller Writers. Lisa is a former trial lawyer and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and its law school, where she taught Justice & Fiction, a course she developed. Lisa co-wrote a series of humorous memoirs with her daughter, novelist Francesca Serritella. We hope you read Francesca’s books, The Ghosts of Harvard and Full Bloom.
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On this week's episode of You Are What You Read, we are thrilled to introduce the #1 New York Times bestselling author, Daniel Silva, with his latest book, RANSOM. Daniel’s novels include the beloved Gabriel Allon series, The Cellist and A Death in Cornwall, among others. His books are critically acclaimed bestsellers around the world and have been translated into more than thirty languages.
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On this week’s episode of You Are What You Read, we are joined by #1 New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett. You know Ann’s novels: Tom Lake, The Dutch House (which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), and her latest, Whistler, among others. Ann has been the recipient of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Women's Prize for Fiction in the UK. President Joe Biden awarded Ann the National Humanities Medal in recognition of her contributions to American culture. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages, and Time magazine named Ann one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. Ann lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where she is the owner of Parnassus Books.
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