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[Contains explicit content] Serge created a SoHo hotspot in his own image, celebrating promiscuity, gluttony, and inclusivity. After 40 years at the helm, he relishes sharing the sweet and sordid history of his bustling bistro.

[Contains explicit content] Best-selling author Nicholas Sparks joins Faith on Valentine's Day to discuss his new novel, Two By Two, and the difference between a romance and a love story. Plus, lexicographer Jonathon Green puts Faith to the test in a game about sexy historical slang.

[Contains explicit content] This week, Curtis Sittenfeld talks about adapting Jane Austen’s classic romance Pride and Prejudice for a modern audience in her novel Eligible. Plus, we go to Oxford University to find out what Austen was reading and writing when she was a teenager. Spoiler alert: she was into Romance novels, too.

Janet Mock is the author of Redefining Realness - My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More. Mock shares the lessons from her first years: how a Black, trans woman has to over-achieve to be seen, and why she will never regret shedding her anonymity and sharing her story of transition.

[Contains explicit content] In the last episode of the season, Faith talks to writer Rebecca Traister about her book All The Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation, about how the institution of marriage has changed in the last 100 years, and about what those changes mean for women today. Plus, Faith goes to Lady Jane’s Salon, New York City’s only Romance reading series, to see the Romance community in action.

[Contains explicit content] This week, Regency Romance author Julia Quinn shares what it’s like to be published all over the world, and plays a trivia game with Faith about Romance novel titles. Plus, Jezebel staff writer Kelly Faircloth walks us through the history of the Romance industry with the help of some old TV commercials from Harlequin and Silhouette.

[Contains explicit content] This week, Faith sits down with author André Aciman to discuss his new novel Enigma Variations, what it means to truly desire someone, and the difference between remorse and regret. Plus, Frank Brinkley of Literary Review magazine talks about his responsibilities as administrator of the Bad Sex in Fiction Award, and shares some cringeworthy excerpts from past winners.

[Contains explicit content] This week, author Terry McMillan joins Faith to talk about the difference between a “do over” and a “start over,” and how her latest book, I Almost Forgot About You, portrays a romance between older characters. Plus, Terry reads a never-published poem that she wrote following her highly-publicized divorce.

Ashley Ford sits down with author Tayari Jones, who is in the midst of finishing up her novel about a Black man who's been wrongfully convicted of a crime. Ashley and Tayari discuss the pressure Black writers experience to write about tough subjects such as racism, mass incarceration and hardship. Tayari Jones brings with her the first story she ever wrote, at the tender age of 15.

[Contains explicit content] Tag sale guru Mona is an anchor for her clients whose lives are in transit. But even she isn’t immune to the complicated emotions involved in giving old stuff a new life.

[Contains explicit content] After crashing the memorial service for street photographer Bill Cunningham, Kathleen Horan realizes it’s the random but personal connections we make that give New York City its magic.

A devastating assault. A day in court. A story of how this powerful person turned loss into gain.

[Contains explicit content] Douglas is intimate with the city in a way few others will ever be: through its trash. From bloody pennies to a prized baseball card, the sanitation worker shares what he’s seen when no one was looking.

[Contains explicit content] Frankie followed his love of costumes from the Navy to a Manhattan club. Now he can’t imagine a life without wigs, dresses, and the support of his co-stars.

[Contains explicit content] This week, Faith talks to the queen of “chick lit,” Sophie Kinsella, whose new novel is My Not So Perfect Life. They dig into the “chick lit” label to see how fair and accurate it is, and discuss how the rise of technology has affected the ways in which writers approach relationships in their work. Plus, in the second installment of Faith’s attempts to write a Romance scene, she visits Harlequin’s offices to get some feedback from Romance editor Patience Bloom.

[Contains explicit content] This week, Faith talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Sharon Olds about her new collection, Odes, which includes poems like “Blow Job Ode” and “Ode of Withered Cleavage.” Plus, Columbia professor Erik Gray talks about why there’s so much bad love poetry, and why his favorite romantic poem comes from…the Bible.

[Contains explicit content] This week, author and transgender rights activist Jennifer Finney Boylan discusses her new mystery Long Black Veil, and how loving a partner changes over the course of a decades-long relationship. Plus, photojournalist Glenna Gordon takes us to Kano, Nigeria, home to a vibrant community of Muslim women who write littattafan soyayya, or “literature of love”.

A small town she loves. A big realization. What happens when rural traditions need reinventing?

[Contains explicit content] In this special Mother’s Day bonus interview, Faith talks with her friends – comedians Adam and Susie Felber -- about what it was like growing up with a mom who wrote Romance novels.

Years of depression. Scores of medications. An original approach to living with mental health, from the bottom up.