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Loudmouth: Emma Goldman vs. America (A Love Story) is this prolific and award-winning author’s latest book, published in September 2025 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. It was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and the Golden Kite Award, A New York and Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year, an ALA Top Ten Feminist Book, and a Booklist Editor’s Choice. Heiligman’s 34 previous books for children and adults include: Charles and Emma: A Leap of Faith; Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers; and Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of “The Children’s Ship.” Deborah Heiligman was interviewed during BIO’s May 2026 annual conference in New York City by BIO member and podcast producer Jenny Skoog Mondesir
16 Oct 2026
Podcast #271 – Sam Tanenhaus
Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America, published by Random House in June 2025, is the latest book by this best-selling and award-winning author of books on American politics and the media. Tanenhaus is the former editor-in-chief of The New York Times Book Review, and he has lectured at Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, and Cornell as well as at the George W. Bush White House and the Clinton, Kennedy, and Johnson Presidential libraries. His featured articles have appeared in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Time, and Vanity Fair, along with more than two dozen other national and international publications. Tanenhaus currently serves as a contributing writer to The Washington Post, and he is a distinguished Fellow of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. Sam Tanenhaus was interviewed during BIO’s May 2026 annual conference in New York City by BIO member and podcast producer Jenny Skoog Mondesir.
9 Oct 2026
Podcast #270 – April F. Masten
Diamond and Juba: The Raucous World of 19th-Century Challenge Dancing is this author’s dual biography of Irish American John Diamond and African American William Henry Lane (nicknamed Juba). Published by the University of Illinois Press in December 2025, this biography explores the lives of these two men who were internationally famous in the 1800s as rival champions in the art and sport of challenge dancing. An American history professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Masten also authored Art Work: Women Artists and Democracy in Mid-Nineteenth Century New York, along with essays on Jacksonian-era painter Nelly Martin Spencer, the pitfalls of writing interdisciplinary history, and the joys of teaching history through dance. April F. Masten was interviewed during BIO’s May 2026 annual conference in New York City by BIO member and podcast producer Jenny Skoog Mondesir.
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