Author Interviews

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A teenage girl finds an ally on her life journey when 'A Snake Falls to Earth'

8:02am November 21, 2021

"A Snake Falls to Earth" is a fantasy book set against a backdrop of climate change and rooted in Lipan Apache storytelling. Leila Fadel talks to Darcie Little Badger, the book's author.

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'Harsh Times' novel explores CIA-backed coup to overthrow Guatemala's government

9:56am November 20, 2021

Scott Simon speaks to author Mario Vargas Llosa about his new novel, "Harsh Times." It's set in the 1950s, around the events of the CIA-backed coup to overthrow Guatemala's government.

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Huda Fahmy asks 'Huda F Are You?' in new book

8:52am November 20, 2021

Scott Simon speaks to author Huda Fahmy about her new book, "Huda F Are You?"

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Author Tamara Payne helped to finish her late father's biography of Malcolm X

8:15am November 18, 2021

Tamara Payne, award-winning co-author of The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X, speaks with NPR's A Martinez about the exoneration of two men convicted in the murder of Malcolm X.

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Nikole Hannah-Jones won a MacArthur "Genius" Grant in 2017. She is a tenured faculty member at Howard University.

'1619 Project' journalist says Black people shouldn't be an asterisk in U.S. history

1:25pm November 17, 2021

by Arun Venugopal

Nikole Hannah-Jones says the contributions of Black people are often left out of the American story. Her mission is to reframe U.S. history through the lens of slavery.

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Blair Braverman is a contributing editor to Outside Magazine. She's also appeared on the Discovery reality show Naked and Afraid, in which she and a partner were left in a remote area of South Africa without clothes, food or water for three weeks.

Don't get dragged! Iditarod musher shares tales from the trail

1:17pm November 16, 2021

by Dave Davies

Blair Braverman says if she lets go of the sled, the dogs will race on without her. The question, she says, is not how to get sled dogs to go. Rather, it's how do you get them to stop?

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Trump supporters clash with police and security forces during the insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

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ABC's Jonathan Karl details Trump's efforts to overturn the election in 'Betrayal'

12:51pm November 16, 2021

by James Doubek

The new book from ABC News' chief Washington correspondent focuses on how Trump worked to overturn the election — but Karl also has a message about the rally at the Capitol that became a riot.

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Karl's new book 'Betrayal' begins where 'Front Row at the Trump Show' left off

6:08am November 16, 2021

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Jonathan Karl about his latest book on former President Donald Trump and his final months in office when he purged anyone he deemed disloyal.

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Arts

Memoir explores how racism and violence impacted 'Three Girls from Bronzeville'

1:25pm November 15, 2021

by Terry Gross

Journalist Dawn Turner revisits her own past, and tells the story of her sister, who died at 24 from chronic alcoholism, and her childhood best friend, who served 20 years in prison for murder.

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'The Island Of Missing Trees' is Elif Shafak's latest novel

6:03am November 15, 2021

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Elif Shafak about her book, "The Island of Missing Trees." It's about the trauma of civil war imperiling future generations.

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