Caitlin Malcuit reheats some of her favorite Friday Morning Coffee conversations from 2025 and finishes up her eighth year (!) as our host.

Author Tamar Shapiro then joins Daniel Ford to chat about her novel Restitution.

To learn more about Tamar Shapiro, visit her official website.

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Author and Academy Award-nominee Julian Brave NoiseCat joins Daniel Ford on the final show of 2025 to discuss his book We Survived the Night and his documentary film "Sugarcane."

To learn more about Julian Brave Noise Cat, visit his official website.

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Author Alafair Burke (The Wife, Find Me, The Better Sister) joins Daniel Ford on the show to discuss her book The Note, now available in paperback.

To learn more about Alafair Burke, visit her official website.

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On the latest Friday Morning Coffee, host Caitlin Malcuit discusses AI's continued encroachment into the music business and Warner Music Group's licensing deal with a tech start up Suno that will likely lead to AI-generated music sourced from artists who opt-in. Sounds above board and nonexploitative to us!

Then author Sarah Curtis joins Daniel Ford to chat about her memoir, Daughter of a Song, and her father, the legendary Sonny Curtis.

To learn more about Sarah Curtis, visit her official website.

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Author R.L. Maizes (Other People's Pets, We Love Anderson Cooper) returns to the show and chats with Daniel Ford about her latest novel A Complete Fiction.

To learn more about R.L. Maizes, visit her official website. Also listen to our interviews with the author in Episode 376 and Friday Morning Coffee.

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Author Gina Chung (Sea Change) joins Daniel Ford on the show to chat about her short story collection Green Frog.

To learn more about Gina Chung, visit her official website.

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On the latest Friday Morning Coffee, host Caitlin Malcuit discusses Seth Gordon's new book Crossroads in the American Theatre, which explores the current state of the U.S. nonprofit theatre movement.

Then, author Robert M. Dowling (Eugene O'Neill: A Life in Four Acts, Slumming in New York: From the Waterfront to Mythic Harlem) chats with Daniel Ford about his book Coyote: The Dramatic Lives of Sam Shepard.

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Author Yael van der Wouden joins Daniel Ford on the show to discuss her Booker Award-nominated novel The Safekeep.

To learn more about Yael van der Wouden, visit her official website.

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