Live Author Chat & Interview Transcripts

Over the years we've had the opportunity to host numerous live chat sessions and email interviews with some amazingly talented authors. Below you'll find the transcripts of these chats and email interviews for your enjoyment.

Our live chats are casual and interactive where all participants are encouraged to ask questions and make comments, much the same as you'd have over coffee or lunch. Often these chats go off on tangents as one question or comment leads to another. You should enjoy reading them!

Live Author Chat & Interview Transcripts
#	Date	Format	Author or Guest	Book Title or Subject	Forum	Book
17	Sept. 24, 2009	Live Chat	Todd C. Riniolo	When Good Thinking Goes Bad	Forum	Book
16	July 30, 2009	Live Chat	Frans de Waal	Primates and Philosophers	Forum	Book
15	Nov., 2007	Interview	Noam Chomsky	Interventions	Forum	Book
14	Dec. 14, 2006	Live Chat	Eugenie Scott	Evolution vs. Creationism	Forum	Book
13	Aug. 25, 2005	Live Chat	Victor Davis Hanson	Collapse - by Jared Diamond	Forum	Book
12	July 23, 2005	Live Chat	A.C. Grayling	What is Good?	Forum	Book
11	Oct. 14, 2004	Live Chat	Howard Bloom	Reinventing Capitalism	N/A	N/A
10	Sept. 16, 2004	Live Chat	Lee Harris	Civilization and Its Enemies	Forum	Book
9	Sept. 02, 2004	Live Chat	Ann Druyan	Pale Blue Dot	Forum	Book
8	May 27, 2004	Live Chat	Michael Shermer	How We Believe	Forum	Book
7	Mar. 18, 2004	N/A	Antonio Damasio	Looking for Spinoza - Canceled	Forum	Book
6	Nov. 28, 2003	Live Chat	Matt Ridley	The Red Queen	Forum	Book
5	Sept. 02, 2003	Live Chat	Steven Pinker	The Blank Slate	Forum	Book
4	July 17, 2003	Live Chat	Massimo Pigliucci	Rationally Speaking	Forum	N/A
3	July 12, 2003	Live Chat	Richard Dawkins	Unweaving the Rainbow	Forum	Book
2	Mar. 06, 2003	Live Chat	Howard Bloom	Global Brain	Forum	Book
1	Jan. 02, 2003	Live Chat	Howard Bloom	The Lucifer Principle	Forum	Book

Authors with which we've had live chats or interviews...
Richard Dawkins "Unweaving the Rainbow"	Ann Druyan "Pale Blue Dot"
Frans de Waal "Primates and Philosophers"	Todd C. Riniolo "When Good Thinking Goes Bad"
Massimo Pigliucci "Rationally Speaking"	Victor Davis Hanson on "Collapse" by Jared Diamond
Matt Ridley "The Red Queen"	Steven Pinker "The Blank Slate"
Michael Shermer "How We Believe"	A.C. Grayling "What is Good?"
Eugenie Scott "Evolution vs. Creationism"	Howard Bloom "Global Brain" and "The Lucifer Principle"
Noam Chomsky "Interventions"	Lee Harris "Civilization and Its Enemies"

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• The Passion of the Western Mind by Richard Tarnas • The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin • The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism - by Howard Bloom • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll • Empire of Illusion by Chris Hedges • The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner • The Extended Phenotype by Richard Dawkins • Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions by Neil Gaiman • The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins • When Good Thinking Goes Bad by Todd C. Riniolo • House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski • American Gods: A Novel by Neil Gaiman • Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved by Frans de Waal • The Enormous Room by E.E. Cummings • The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde • God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens • The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco • Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama • Paradise Lost by John Milton • Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism by Kevin Phillips • The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett • Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists by Dan Barker • The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien • The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism • Lolita • Orlando by Virginia Woolf • On Being Certain by Robert A. Burton • 50 reasons people give for believing in a god by Guy P. Harrison • Walden: Or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau • Exile and the Kingdom by Albert Camus • Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are by Frans de Waal • Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year-History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin • No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy • The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby • Ten Theories of Human Nature by Leslie Stevenson & David Haberman • Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad • The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature by Stephen Pinker • A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini • The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip Zimbardo • Responsibility and Judgment by Hannah Arendt • Interventions by Noam Chomsky • Godless in America by George A. Ricker • Religious Expression and the American Constitution by Franklyn S. Haiman • Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by Phil McKibben • The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins • The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared Diamond • The Woman in the Dunes by Abe Kobo • Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction by Eugenie C. Scott • The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan • I, Claudius : From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 by Robert Graves • Breaking The Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel C. Dennett • A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East Peace by David Fromkin • The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger • The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris • Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon • Value and Virtue in a Godless Universe by Erik J. Wielenberg • The March by E. L Doctorow • The Ethical Brain by Michael Gazzaniga • Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby • Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond • The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong • The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson • What is Good? The Search for the Best Way to Live by A. C. Grayling • Civilization and Its Enemies: The Next Stage of History by Lee Harris • Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan • How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God by Michael Shermer • Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain by Antonio Damasio • Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken • The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley • The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Stephen Pinker • Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder by Richard Dawkins • Atheism: A Reader edited by S.T. Joshi • Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind From the Big Bang To the 21st Century by Howard Bloom • The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of Nature by Howard Bloom • Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond • The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown • Future Shock by Alvin Toffler

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