Join us for a series of provocative and entertaining discussions with some of today’s most talented and creative authors. In a series of live, one-hour Zoom events, host Karen Dukess, author of The Last Book Party, will interview acclaimed, debut, and award-winning authors of fiction and non-fiction about their new books and their paths to publication. Available individually or as a series, the interviews will include time for questions from the audience. Events are FREE although donations greatly appreciated!

Catherine Newman’s work has appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers, and online publications, including the New York Times, O the Oprah Magazine, More, The Boston Globe, Self, The Huffington Post, FamilyFun and Redbook.  She is the etiquette columnist at Real Simple, editor-in-chief of the James-Beard-Award-winning nonprofit kids' cooking magazine ChopChop and her essays have appeared in numerous books and anthologies, including On Being 40, the fabulous Unbored series, The Bitch in the House, Oprah's Little Book of Happiness, and the Full Grown People collections. Her New York Times Motherlode columns twice appeared on “best of the year” lists. She is also the author of Waiting for Birdy (Penguin, 2005), Catastrophic Happiness (Little, Brown, 2016), the middle grade novel, One Mixed-Up Night (Random House Children’s, 2017) and Nautilus Award winner for How to Be a Person (Storey, 2021).