Ross Mathews

TV personality and bestselling author Ross Mathews joins us on this week’s episode to discuss Name Drop: The Really Good Celebrity Stories I Usually Only Tell at Happy Hour (Atria). Mathews graciously brings us behind the scenes of talk shows and awards shows, and shares some of his best red carpet interview tips with host Megan Labrise. And in a sponsored interview, Megan talks with actor, musician, comedian, and writer Steven Banks, author of Middle School Bites (Holiday House), a funny new middle-grade novel for vampire-werewolf-zombie fans. Then our editors join with their reading recommendations for the week, with books from Megan Dowd Lambert and Jessica Lanan, Juleah del Rosario, and Douglas Stuart.