On Tuesday February 12th, Anna will be talking with Lauren Groff about her most recent short-story collection Florida. In her vigorous and moving new work, Lauren Groff brings her electric storytelling and intelligence to a world in which storms, snakes, and sinkholes lurk at the edge of everyday life, but the greater threats and mysteries are of a human, emotional, and psychological nature. Lauren Groff is the New York Times bestselling author of three novels, The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, and Fates and Furies, and the short story collection Delicate Edible Birds. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Kirkus Prize, and the LA Times Book Prize

Josh talks with Cal Newport to talk about his latest book Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World. the bestselling author of Deep Work introduces a philosophy for technology drawing on a diverse array of real-life examples, from Amish farmers to harried parents to Silicon Valley programmers. Newport identifies the common practices of digital minimalists and the ideas that underpin them. He shows how digital minimalists are rethinking their relationship to social media, rediscovering the pleasures of the offline world, and reconnecting with their inner selves through regular periods of solitude