Poets & Writers Theater

“It’s just wonderful to be able to tell my story and tell our family’s story, and it’s very emotional.” In this interview, Vanessa Chan discusses the personal and historical inspiration for her debut novel, The Storm We Made (S&S/Marysue Rucci Books, 2024), which is January’s Good Morning America Book Club Pick.

In this interview, author Angie Kim talks about her second novel, Happiness Falls (Hogarth, 2023), a Good Morning America Book Club Pick, which follows the story of a biracial Korean American family whose lives are upended when their father goes missing.

“I wrote this book for Black women who’ve been in those workspaces, but really anyone who’s been an other in these kind of spaces.” In this video, Zakiya Dalila Harris speaks about her debut novel, The Other Black Girl (Atria Books, 2021), and how her characters navigate through workplace politics with Robin Roberts for Good Morning America. Harris is featured in “First Fiction 2021” in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

“If we truly love a place and are tethered to a place, then it’s our job to get to know that place.” In this Good Morning America interview, Sarah M. Broom speaks about her debut memoir, The Yellow House (Grove Press, 2019), which is a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award in nonfiction.