A delightful interview with the co-publishers (two lifelong friends and book lovers) of Quite Literally Books, a heritage press devoted to discovering and reissuing ought-to-be-in-print books by American women authors—and occasionally others—who’ve been shelved for far too long. https://quiteliterallybooks.com/?srsltid=AfmBOopfyHvxDG8jGe6Lvrqerie5N3GVrSpiUtmG2ts75GnMIp0KfMUj   will-cooper.com

In this timely new book, professor Gloria Browne-Marshall delves into the history of protest movements and rebellion in the United States.  https://www.beacon.org/A-Protest-History-of-the-United-States-P2145.aspx   https://will-cooper.com/ 

My interview with professor Mohamed Arafa, who teaches law at Cornell and in Egypt. We discuss how America is viewed in the Middle East. "The outside world does not see the US as it used to be." "Even after Trump leaves office, it will not be easy for the US to return to its leading image." will-cooper.com

A stimulating conversion in which Howard breaks down numerous key economic concepts that are typically misunderstood. Understandable Economics: Because Understanding Our Economy Is Easier Than You Think and More Important Than You Know: https://www.amazon.com/Understandable-Economics-Because-Understanding-Important/dp/1633888363   will-cooper.com

This memoir stands out as a unique and contemporary story, offering a fresh perspective on historical reparations and the ongoing quest for identity in a rapidly changing world.   will-cooper.com

Resnik's new book, “Impermissible Punishments: How Prison Became a Problem for Democracy,” was published by the University of Chicago Press this year. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo243487113.html

Donald L. Horowitz is the James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science Emeritus at Duke University. He holds law degrees from Syracuse and Harvard and a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard. Professor Horowitz is the author of eight books: The Courts and Social Policy (1977), which won the Louis Brownlow Award of the National Academy of Public Administration; The Jurocracy (1977), a book about government lawyers; Coup Theories and Officers’ Motives: Sri Lanka in Comparative Perspective (1980); Ethnic Groups in Conflict (1985, 2000); A Democratic South Africa? Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society (1991), which won the Ralph Bunche Prize of the American Political Science Association; The Deadly Ethnic Riot (2001); Constitutional Change and Democracy in Indonesia, published in 2013 by Cambridge University Press and issued in a Bahasa Indonesia translation in 2014. His book, Constitutional Processes and Democratic Commitment, was published by Yale University Press in 2021. An edited volume on Electoral Reform and Democracy in Malaysia was published in 2023, and Professor Horowitz has a new book on federalism, regional autonomy, and ethnic conflict in press.

We discuss Robert's incredible body of work. https://americanswhotellthetruth.org/about/about-the-artist/   DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY. will-cooper.com

We discuss his forthcoming book, Living Just Enough for the City. Website: https://joseph-hoover.org/Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/drjoehoover.bsky.social or @drjoehoover.bsky.socialSubstack: https://anothermotelvoice.substack.com/ or @anothermotelvoice  Article on gentrification: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00905917231178295Article on utopian hope, where I discuss utopian urban planning: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17550882251380725   DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY. will-cooper.com

We discuss Bryan's collaboration with Justice Scalia and his wonderful new book: The Etcher: The Life and Art of Oskar Stoessel.  https://www.amazon.com/Etcher-Life-Art-Oskar-Stoessel/dp/1567928404

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 International Screenwriters Association Award, 2020), and THE FACE OF THE EARTH (Grand Prize Winner of the Diverse Voices Award, 2018). Her work has been featured at such venues as the Yale Center for British Art, the International Festival of Arts & Ideas, the LGBTQ+ Toronto Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, and SXSW, and has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of literary publications, including The Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, McSweeney’s, Chicago Quarterly Review, Story, Hopkins Review, Boulevard, Creative Nonfiction, Electric Literature, The Masters Review, Columbia Journal, The Chicago Review, Fiction International, The Offing, Gertrude Press, Hobart, Black Static, Cheap Pop, Exposition Review, Lunch Ticket, Baltimore Review, Epiphany, Literary Hub, and elsewhere.

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 Games" about a large-scale Army training exercise built to prepare for a possible war with China. He produced and directed the acclaimed feature-length documentary "Welcome To The J: Inside Army Jungle School," which was the most-watched new Business Insider video of 2023.  He has produced interviews with Jamie Dimon, Lebron James, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Richard Branson, and many more. https://www.businessinsider.com/author/graham-flanagan      

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

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

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

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 the World, finalist for the Los Angeles Times Prize in Fiction, and Ideas of Heaven, finalist for the National Book Award and the Story Prize. She’s also written Lucky Us, In My Other Life, and In the City (to be reissued by Hagfish in 2026), and her first book, Household Words, won the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her recent The New Yorker piece: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/08/safety-fiction-joan-silber Her website: https://www.joansilber.net/ #books DON’T WORRY, BE HAPPY. will-cooper.com

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  

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 Prohibition, Gun Regulation, and the Search for Sensible Alternatives (Prometheus Books, 2025), which CNN anchor Jake Tapper describes as 'a compelling and provocative book about drugs and guns...from one of the nation's most original thinkers.'" https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Beyond-Control/Jacob-Sullum/9781493084661   DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY will-cooper.com  

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/

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 Roblox’s efforts to age up to a look at Apple’s original 1976 marketing plan. His Plugged In newsletter appears each Friday. https://www.fastcompany.com/user/harry-mccracken   DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY will-cooper.com