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Kris Olson, Marblehead Current

Kris Olson, Marblehead Current

Kris Olson, co-founder and consulting editor of the Marblehead Current, joins Daniel Ford on Friday Morning Coffee to chat about his career in journalism and why local community news is so important.

Gus Garcia-Roberts, Author of Jimmy the King

Gus Garcia-Roberts, Author of Jimmy the King

Author and journalist Gus Garcia-Roberts joins Daniel Ford on Friday Morning Coffee to chat about his book Jimmy the King: Murder, Vice, and the Reign of a Dirty Cop.

Wit’s End Author James Geary

Wit’s End Author James Geary

James Geary, author of I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World and Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists, joins Daniel Ford for Friday Morning Coffee to discuss his new book Wit's End: What Wit is, How it Works, and Why We Need It.

Friday Morning Coffee: Author and Journalist Dan Zak

Dan Zak, Washington Post reporter and author of Almighty: Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age, talks to Rob Masiello and Sean Tuohy about what he learned while researching the book, the global response to nuclear weapons and their implications, and why reading newspapers is better than solely binging news on social media.

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To trust the unknown, to not fear the other, requires a considerable amount of faith.
— Dan Zak

To learn more about Dan Zak, visit his official website or his Washington Post landing page. You can also follow him on Twitter @MrDanZak

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