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Sep 18, 2026
Tom MeyersHOST
How Mamie Fish, Queen of the Gilded Age, partied her way to power.
Tom MeyersHOST
It was published in 2025 by Grand Central Publishing.
Tom MeyersHOST
I've been joined by Jennifer Wright.
Tom MeyersHOST
It has been so much fun talking about Mamie Fish with you.
Don SwansNARRATOR
It's adapted from the book entitled The Last Free Women.
Don SwansNARRATOR
A Daring Escape from Afghanistan and Coming of Age in America by Rebecca Brumstein and Diana Kapp, published by Grand Central Publishing, an imprint of the Hatchett Book Group.
Don SwansNARRATOR
In an excerpt from the new book, The Last Three Women, the Rahm sisters mourn an era of expanded opportunity.
Don SwansNARRATOR
in Afghanistan.
Don SwansNARRATOR
It's adapted from the book entitled The Last Free Women.
Don SwansNARRATOR
A Daring Escape from Afghanistan and Coming of Age in America by Rebecca Brumstein and Diana Kapp, published by Grand Central Publishing, an imprint of the Hatchett Book Group.
Don SwansNARRATOR
In an excerpt from the new book, The Last Three Women, the Rahm sisters mourn an era of expanded opportunity.
Don SwansNARRATOR
in Afghanistan.
Barbara RobertsonHOST
She is currently serving as a member of the Lullaby Trust Scientific Advisory Group and the UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative Qualifications Board.
Barbara RobertsonHOST
And her popular science book, 2025, How Babies Sleep, was published by Penguin Random House and Grand Central Publishing in the U.S.
Barbara RobertsonHOST
So welcome, Helen.
Barbara RobertsonHOST
That was quite an introduction.
CeCe LyraHOST
We are so excited to have this week on Kersaya Depp.
CeCe LyraHOST
Kersaya is a senior editor at Grand Central Publishing who is so passionate about commercial fiction, and that includes speculative fiction, fantasy, retellings, historical and contemporary women's fiction.
CeCe LyraHOST
You may know Kersaya, maybe you don't, but you know her books.
CeCe LyraHOST
For example, she is the editor who bought the number one New York Times phenomenon, The Housemaid by Freida McFadden, and her authors include superstars such as David Baldacci, Scott Turow, and Lauren Kate, among others.
Brian WhittenHOST
Exactly.
Brian WhittenHOST
Um, so after it hit the New York times bestseller list, Warner books contracted to re-release that book in 2000.
Brian WhittenHOST
Um, wait,
Angela HoyHOST
before you talk about the next part, how many, how many millions of copies sold?
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Brian WhittenHOST
And in six months he sold 100,000 copies.
Brian WhittenHOST
And this is out of the, out of the trunk of his car.
Brian WhittenHOST
He's the one that was having to ship the copies to people and stuff like that, you know? Um, So Warner Books found out about this book and bought the rights for $800,000 and republished the book in March of 1994.
Brian WhittenHOST
I'd
Paul LernerHOST
Hello everybody, and welcome back to the New Books Network.
Paul LernerHOST
I'm your host, Paul Lerner, coming to you from Los Angeles, California, and it's my great pleasure to welcome today's guest, Daniella Gerson, author of The Wanderers: A Story of Exile, Survival, and Unexpected Love in the Shadow of World War II, which appeared with Grand Central Publishing this past spring.
Paul LernerHOST
Daniella Gerson is an award-winning reporter whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Der Spiegel, Public Radio International, and the Financial Times, among many other venues.
Paul LernerHOST
An associate professor of journalism at Cal State University Northridge and editor-at-large at Zócalo Public Square, she previously worked as a community engagement editor at the LA Times and as a staff immigration reporter for the New York Sun.
Autumn SmithHOST
The man who wrote Caffeine Blues, who literally had his book tour canceled for criticizing the industry, still drinks coffee.
Stephen CherniskeGUEST
We were scheduled for, in the book tour, Warner Books had me scheduled for Good Morning America and two other national shows.
Stephen CherniskeGUEST
We had been doing regional shows two weeks before GMA, as they call it.
Stephen CherniskeGUEST
I get a call from Warner's attorney saying that your book tour has been canceled.
Stephen CherniskeGUEST
And I said, what do you mean, GMA dropped out? She says, no, the whole book tour has been canceled.
Stephen CherniskeGUEST
And I said, what's going on? Did I do something wrong? She goes, no, but you said some unkind things about Coca-Cola.
Stephen CherniskeGUEST
And Warner Books is part of the Time Warner Company family of companies.
Stephen CherniskeGUEST
And we have a very close relationship with Coca-Cola.
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Daniela Gerson,
Paul LernerHOST
author of The Wanderers, a story of exile, survival, and unexpected love in the shadow of World War II, which appeared with Grand Central Publishing this past spring.
Paul LernerHOST
Daniela Gerson is an award-winning reporter whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Dow Spiegel, Public Radio International, and the Financial Times, among many other venues.
Paul LernerHOST
An associate professor of journalism at Cal State University Northridge and editor-at-large at Zocalo Public Square, She previously worked as a community engagement editor at the LA Times and as a staff immigration reporter for the New York Sun.
speaker_11NARRATOR
Readers love works like Kindred and Parable of the Sower, and they also track down her earlier novel, Survivor.
speaker_11NARRATOR
Nana K. Tumasi oversees much of Butler's catalog at Grand Central Publishing.
Nana K. TumasiGUEST
It's been almost 50 years since Survivor was effectively taken out of print.
Nana K. TumasiGUEST
In that time, Butler has become even more visible than she was.
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