• Home For Sale by Leo Litwak
    Nov 8 2026
    Leo Litwak, Author of "Home For Sale," talks about the role city realtors played in separating Detroit into different ethnic enclaves in the 1950s. The full interview from this 2012 episode of "Conversations On The Coast with Jim Foster" can be heard now wherever you get your podcasts, and here.
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    3 min
  • Kathleen Little from M Is For Mystery Bookstore
    Nov 1 2026
    Kathleen Little, an employee in the children's book department at a San Mateo bookstore called "M Is For Mystery," talks about some of her favorites including "America the Beautiful: A Pop-up Book" by Robert Sabuda and "Ida B:...and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World" by Katherine Hannigan. The full interview from these 2004 episodes of "Conversations On The Coast with Jim Foster" can be heard now wherever you get your podcasts, and here.
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    3 min
  • The Burn Zone by Renee Linnell
    Oct 25 2026
    Renee Linnell, Author of "The Burn Zone: A Memoir," explains how we teach people how to treat us and talks about the surprising things she experienced at her first meditation seminar. The full interview from this 2018 episode of "Conversations On The Coast with Jim Foster" can be heard now wherever you get your podcasts, and here. A special version that includes behind-the-scenes audio from the interview can be found here.
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    5 min
  • Kinder Than Solitude by Yiyun Li
    Oct 18 2026
    Yiyun Li, Author of "Kinder Than Solitude," explains the book title and how one of the goals of the novel was to encourage people to look at everything more closely in life instead of skipping through. The full interview from this 2014 episode of "Conversations On The Coast with Jim Foster" can be heard now wherever you get your podcasts, and here.
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    3 min
  • Putin's Labyrinth by Steve Levine
    Oct 11 2026
    Steve Levine, Author of "Putin's Labyrinth: Spies, Murder, and the Dark Heart of the New Russia," talks about how former KGB and defector Alexander Litvinenko differed from investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya even though both were harsh critics of Vladimir Putin. The full interview from this 2008 episode of "Conversations On The Coast with Jim Foster" can be heard now wherever you get your podcasts, and here. Photo.
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    3 min
  • The Sword Thief The 39 Clues Book 3 by Peter Lerangis
    Oct 4 2026
    Peter Lerangis, Author of "The Sword Thief (The 39 Clues, Book 3)," talks about the challenges of writing a book in a series where the previous book was written by a different author. The full interview from this 2009 episode of "Conversations On The Coast with Jim Foster" can be heard now wherever you get your podcasts, and here. Photo: Jim Foster.
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    4 min
  • Lost Hearts in Italy by Andrea Lee
    Sep 27 2026
    Andrea Lee, Author of "Lost Hearts in Italy," talks about how the main character, Mira, finds herself split between two powerful types of love after she relocates to Rome with her husband and meets another man who she has an affair with. The full interview from this 2006 episode of "Conversations On The Coast with Jim Foster" can be heard now wherever you get your podcasts, and here. Photo.
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    5 min
  • The Boat by Nam Le
    Sep 20 2026
    Nam Le, Author of "The Boat," talks about one of the short stories in which a father is looking forward to seeing his daughter that he hasn't seen in almost 20 years. The full interview from this 2008 episode of "Conversations On The Coast with Jim Foster" can be heard now wherever you get your podcasts, and here. Photo.
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    3 min