Join us LIVE with Audrey Niffenegger TONIGHT
Weekly News from Friends & Fiction—October 21, 2026
Tune in LIVE at 7pm ET tonight for this week’s episode!
Join us on Wednesday, October 21st LIVE at 7pm Eastern on the F&F Facebook page and YouTube channel as Kristin, Patti & MKA welcome the multi-million copy bestselling author of The Time Traveler’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger to discuss our October 2026 Pick of the Month, Life Out of Order, her exhilarating new speculative story set in a dystopian future where virtual reality and real life converge.
Audrey Niffenegger is a visual artist and writer whose book art, prints, and paintings are included in the collections of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Newberry Library, and the Library of Congress. A former Professor at Columbia College, she helped found their Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, and also founded Artists Book House, a non-profit center for the literary and book arts. She has published eight books, including the novels The Time Traveler’s Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry, as well as the graphic novels Raven Girl and The Night Bookmobile. A modern classic that has captivated readers worldwide, The Time Traveler’s Wife has been adapted into a film, an HBO series, and a West End stage musical. We are eager to talk to her about Life Out of Order, an epic genre-bending tale told through a kaleidoscope of perspectives, that moves through a boundless, unfolding universe of virtual reality, and skims the wildest reaches of technology and the natural world.
Watch the LIVE video broadcast of this interview as it airs on Wed 10/21 at 7pm ET on the F&F Facebook group page & YouTube channel. Catch the audio version on our podcast Fri 10/23.
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Latest News from the Fab Four!
KRISTY WOODSON HARVEY is on her last full week of the Falling for Peachtree Bluff tour! She had a great time at the Southern Festival of Books with friends like Christina Baker Kline! Then she got to see our darling Ron Block at his Cuyahoga County library. Then she had a great time with readers in Nashville, Indiana at Naughty Dog Books. She is so looking forward to the next two days in Carmel, Indiana. Just because this is the last full week, doesn’t mean the tour is over… Don’t forget to check out her full tour dates on her website to see if she’s still coming to a city near you! She can’t thank you enough for all of your support and hopes this autumn finds you Falling for Peachtree Bluff!
PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY had a great few incredible days introducing Christina Baker Kline to Alabama and Auburn and then a really fun long weekend in Arizona with friends and then onto Pennsylvania for more fun with friends! She is so happy to be back at home for this week’s show with Audrey Niffenegger.
MARY KAY ANDREWS enjoyed a fabulous ten-day cruise to Italy, Montenegro, and Croatia with her husband as an early anniversary celebration. She’s home and gradually getting over terminal jet-lag. Back to working on her next novel, and decorating for Halloween—which is huge in her Atlanta neighborhood. Follow her on Instagram and Facebook for pix of her latest half-ass craft creations. She’s looking forward to being part of this weekend’s Pat Conroy Literary Festival in Beaufort, SC, where she’ll be on a panel about Southern women novelists with Cassandra King Conroy, Lisa Patton and Dana Ridenour on Saturday, Oct. 24. Free admission! Go here for the festival schedule.
KRISTIN HARMEL spent a quiet weekend at home with a sick kiddo, who fortunately rebounded quickly and is back to feeling fine. She had fun rooting her Gators on to a victory over Texas on Saturday, as well as cheering for the Tampa Bay Rays in the American League Championship Series. It was a great sports weekend! This weekend, she’s off to Massachusetts for the Cape Cod Book Festival, where she’ll be in conversation with Ariel Lawhon on Sunday at 3pm. Come join her if you’re in the area; tickets are still available and can be purchased here.
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Upcoming Events
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In Case You Missed It
On our most recent episode of The Friends & Fiction Show, Ron Block & Kristin Harmel welcomed Bonnie Garmus the #1 New York Times bestselling author of global sensation Lessons in Chemistry to discuss Peck & Peck, her irresistible, delightful, and tender new literary novel set in the publishing world of 1980s New York City about a young man whose life turns upside down when he is hired by the most prestigious, secretive, and dysfunctional poetry journal in the world.
You can WATCH that episode on Facebook or YouTube, or LISTEN to it on our podcast.
Coming Up on The Friends & Fiction Show
All shows can be watched on Facebook & YouTube each Wednesday evening at 7pm ET, and listened to on our podcast each Friday, all year long.
Already aired: Karin Slaughter, The Secrets We Hide
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Already aired: Kristy Woodson Harvey, Falling for Peachtree Bluff
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Already aired: Chloe Benjamin, Under Story
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Already aired: Ariel Lawhon, The Pirate Queen
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The Fall 2026 Season of The Friends & Fiction Show
Already aired: Lucy Foley, Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel
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Already aired: Annie Hartnett, The Road to Tender Hearts
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Already aired: Bonnie Garmus, Peck & Peck
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Audrey Niffenegger, Life Out of Order
Watch LIVE: 10/21 | Listen: 10/23
May Cobb, All the Little Secrets
Watch LIVE: 11/4 | Listen: 11/6
Mary Beth Keane, Whale Harbor
Watch: 11/11 | Listen: 11/13
Nina de Gramont, Peregrine Hill
Watch: 11/18 | Listen: 11/20
Lucy Tan, Tiger’s Mouth
Watch: 12/2 | Listen: 12/4
Nancy Thayer, Nantucket Christmas Stroll
Watch LIVE: 12/9 | Listen: 12/11
Jennifer E. Smith, Rabbit Rabbit
Watch: 12/16 | Listen: 12/18
The NEW F&F 2026-27 Subscription Box with Oxford Exchange
Have you heard about the NEW 2026-27 F&F Subscription Box? It features Kristy’s Falling For Peachtree Bluff, out 9/15, and Patti’s Heart of the Wild, out in April 2027. You’ll also receive an adorable Friends & Fiction keychain and Friends & Fiction bookplates, so all the books you lend out are sure to make their way back to you! Those goodies are available ONLY in this subscription box. So, visit Oxford Exchange to get yours while supplies last!
F&F Merch Store
We have a Friends & Fiction merch store with t-shirts, sweatshirts, coffee mugs and a book bag on Bonfire. We recently added a couple new colors for our fan favorite name list tee-shirts—a heathery hunter green and a kelly green—both of which match perfectly with the three new Fab Four books that were just released in May, June & July of this year! Get yours now!
F&F Official Book Club & 2026 Reading Challenge
Join Brenda Gardner & Lisa Harrison for monthly book club picks and live online author chats on the Facebook page for the F&F Official Book Club with Brenda & Lisa, where they’ve amassed nearly 40,000 of their own members. You can also follow the Book Club on Instagram and subscribe to their YouTube channel where you can catch past discussions, including their most recent chat with Mayra Cuevas & Marie Marquardt about their new novel, How to Fake a Southern Gentleman. Mark your calendars for October 26th for their next author guest, Kristy WoodsonHarvey, when they’ll discuss her new novel, Falling for Peachtree Bluff. The Book Club is also hosting the 2026 F&F Reading Challenge. Join them for a different category prompt each month to read outside your comfort zone. The October prompt is to read a southern gothic novel and for November it’s to read a work of foodie fiction.
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