Nicki Gostin interviews celebrities for newsweek.com. She has written for Newsweek, TV Guide, The Age newspaper, and Australian Women's Weekly, and has appeared on Entertainment Tonight. She dates her interest in celebrities and the Royal Family back to when she was five and wrote letters to Sesame Street, the Queen, and Basil Brush (a British puppet fox with his own TV show).

The formerly incognito restaurant critic for The New York Times releases an incredibly revealing memoir this week. He talks to Nicki Gostin about his struggle with weight and more.

Ruth Reichl, bestselling author and editor in chief of Gourmet, talks about her poignant new memoir about her mother, the Obamas’ garden, and what to cook in a recession.