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Books and More with William Cooper

We explore books, politics, and everyday life with author William Cooper. Visit him online at will-cooper.com.

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24:26

Author A.J. Bermudez

Books and More with William Cooper ·

2025/12/17

A. J. BERMUDEZ is an award-winning writer and director who divides her time between Los Angeles and New York. Her first book, Stories No One Hopes Are About Them, won the 2022 Iowa Short Fiction Award and was a 2023 Lambda Award Finalist. Writing credits include MY DEAD FRIEND ZOE (co-written with director Kyle Hausmann Stokes; starring Sonequa Martin-Green, Natalie Morales, Ed Harris, Morgan Freeman), iCON (Grand Prize Winner of the PAGE Award, 2021), NIGHTINGALE (Grand Prize Winner of an

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26:04

Graham Flanagan, Chief Video Correspondent, Business...

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2025/12/17

Graham created and oversees Business Insider's award-winning "Boot Camp" series (2018-present), which goes inside the training programs of military branches and law enforcement agencies. Episodes include the United States Secret Service, the United States Border Patrol, the United States Coast Guard, the United States Marine Corps, the United States Army, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police aka "Mounties." In 2024, he produced and directed a feature-length documentary "War Ready: Inside Army War

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25:02

Author Philip Holden

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2025/12/17

We discuss his new book, Heaven Has Eyes. https://singaporeunbound.org/gaudy-boy/heaven-has-eyes

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27:20

Authors Michael McKinley and Nancy Meritt Bell

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2025/12/17

We discuss their new book The Glamour of Evil and their new press BookGo. https://www.bookgo.pub/ DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY. will-cooper.com

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22:31

Author Richard A. Stone

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2025/12/14

We discuss his new book Project Mayflower: Building and Sailing a Seventeenth-Century Replica. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Project-Mayflower/Richard-A-Stone/9781493084364 DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY. will-cooper.com

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19:29

Author Joan Silber

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2025/12/12

Joan Silber has written ten books of fiction--most recently, Mercy, out in fall 2025. Secrets of Happiness was a Washington Post Best Book of the year and a Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction of the Year. Improvement won The National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award. She also received the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. Her other works of fiction include Fools, longlisted for the National Book Award and finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, The Size of

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31:25

Authors and Law Professors Naomi Cahn, June Carbone...

Books and More with William Cooper ·

2025/12/11

We discuss their book Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy.https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Fair-Shake/Naomi-Cahn/9781982115135 DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY. will-cooper.com

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29:33

Author Jacob Sullum

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2025/12/11

Jacob Sullum is a senior editor at Reason and a nationally syndicated columnist. He is an award-winning journalist who has covered drug policy, public health, gun control, civil liberties, and criminal justice for more than three decades. Sullum is the author of two critically acclaimed books: Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use (Tarcher/Penguin, 2004) and For Your Own Good: The Anti-Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Public Health (Free Press, 1998). His most recent book is Beyond Control: Drug

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16:49

Authors Ellen Bassuk and Daniel Schoonover

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2025/12/11

For four decades, Ellen Bassuk has navigated the worlds of psychiatry, advocacy, and motherhood-shaped by her son Daniel Schoonover's lifelong struggle with mental illness, especially schizophrenia. Between Two Worlds is their deeply personal and captivating memoir, chronicling Daniel's journey through a broken health care system that often fails those who are different, and the consequent parenting challenges. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/between-two-worlds-9798216200628/

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29:49

Harry McCracken, Fast Company

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2025/12/10

Harry McCracken is the global technology editor for Fast Company, based in San Francisco. He writes about topics ranging from gadgets and services from tech giants to the startup economy to how artificial intelligence and other breakthroughs are changing life at work, home, and beyond.McCracken’s work for the publication has included profiles of Marques Brownlee, Stephen Curry, Jack Dorsey, Marissa Mayer, Mark Zuckerberg, Satya Nadella, and other notables. His other pieces range from a report on

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27:37

Alexandra Jacobs, The New York Times Book Review

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2025/12/08

Alexandra is a critic for The New York Times Book Review and occasional features writer. She joined The Times in 2010. She is the author of the hit book: “Still Here: The Madcap, Nervy Singular Life of Elaine Stritch.”Website: https://www.nytimes.com/by/alexandra-jacobs Book: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250758057/stillhere/

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30:53

Professor Jonathan R. Macey, Yale Law School

Books and More with William Cooper ·

2025/12/08

Jonathan R. Macey is an American legal scholar who serves as the Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance and Securities Law at Yale Law School. Macey is one of the most cited legal scholars in the world.https://law.yale.edu/jonathan-r-macey

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23:04

Ed Macaulay, lecturer in physics and data science at...

Books and More with William Cooper ·

2025/12/08

Ed is the author of First Steps in Space-Time: A Brief Introduction to Special Relativity. https://www.ed-macaulay.com/ DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY. will-cooper.com

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23:18

Novelist Jessica Brilliant Keener

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2025/12/08

Her new novel, Evening Begins the Day, will be published by Koehler Books in Spring 2026! The story weaves together two families in crisis—one reeling from a marital betrayal and the other grappling with their at-risk teenage daughter—with an ancient spiritual practice called The Counting of the Omer; a modern-day quest for community, hope, and safety. https://jessicabrilliantkeener.com/about-jessica-keener.html

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23:01

Gil Gillenwater

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2025/12/08

Gil Gillenwater is the founder of the award-winning Rancho Feliz Charitable Foundation, which has reimagined border philanthropy since 1987. He is the author of Hope on the Border. https://ranchofeliz.com/team/gil-gillenwater/ DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY.

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27:35

The New Yorker's Susan Morrison

Books and More with William Cooper ·

2025/12/04

We discuss her storied career at The New Yorker and her bestseller, LorneThe Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/532520/lorne-by-susan-morrison/ DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY.

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26:56

Legendary Sports Commentator Ray Ratto

Books and More with William Cooper ·

2025/12/04

Website: https://defector.com/author/ray-ratto

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16:59

Author Erica Rex

Books and More with William Cooper ·

2025/12/01

Erica Rex has written for Scientific American, The New York Times, The Times (UK), The Independent, Salon, The Economist and many other publications. She is a recipient of National Magazine Award for Fiction. We discuss her forthcoming book Seeing What Is There: My Search for Sanity in the Psychedelic Era.https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Seeing-What-Is-There/Erica-Rex/9798896360360 DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY. https://will-cooper.com/

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34:36

Pamela Paul of The Wall Street Journal

Books and More with William Cooper ·

2025/12/01

A delightful conversation with Pamela Paul, a writer at large for The Wall Street Journal. She was previously an Opinion columnist for The New York Times, where she also spent nine years as the editor of The New York Times Book Review and oversaw all books coverage at The New York Times. She is the former host of the weekly Book Review podcast for The Times. She is the author and editor of ten books. Visit her online at www.pamelapaul.com.

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18:08

The current state of American politics

Books and More with William Cooper ·

2025/11/29

A few thoughts on where things stand.DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY. will-cooper.com

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