Yasmin Khan's Cookbook Tells The Story Of Pieces Of Home Left Behind
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with cookbook author Yasmin Khan about her new book, Ripe Figs: Recipes and Stories from Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus.
Author Interviews
Not My Job: Jenny Finney Boylan Gets Quizzed On Hot Dogs
Jenny Finney Boylan, columnist, best-seller and author of the memoir, Good Boy: My Life In Seven Dogs, plays our game about hot dogs.
In David Yoon's New Novel, Resetting The Internet To 'Version Zero'
David Yoon draws on his own experience working in tech for his new novel, about a disillusioned data whiz who decides to, literally, reboot the internet — with some catastrophic consequences.
How Weight Lifting Helped One Writer Work Through Her PTSD
A personal trainer and trauma specialist explores how a mindful approach to strength training can help people heal emotional trauma.
Seth Rogen On The Comedy Advice He Got At 12 That He Still Thinks About
Rogen's first comedy teacher taught him to write material based on conflict, so he focused his first stand-up routine on his grandparents. His new book of personal essays is Yearbook.
'Love Letter To Black Boys': Memoir Explores Masculinity Against Appalachian Backdrop
Punch Me Up To The Gods opens with Brian Broome's father beating him when he was 10. The blows by his father were meant to pound manliness into him — to be the "toughest guy in the room."
Questions For Zen Cho, Author Of 'Black Water Sister'
In Zen Cho's new novel, a young woman begins to hear a voice in her head: It's the dead, estranged grandmother she never knew. Wronged in life, the grandmother wants revenge after death.
Andrew McCarthy Recalls His Brat Pack Years In A New Memoir
The star of movies like St. Elmo's Fire and Pretty in Pink writes about his tumultuous 20s in Brat: An '80s Story. Of that era's movies, he says the emotions are timeless, the hair not so much.
A Boy And His Grandfather Visit Home 'On The Trapline'
A little boy and his Moshom — which means grandfather in Swampy Cree — travel north to visit the trapline where, many years ago, the grandfather grew up living off the land.
Not My Job: We Quiz Elizabeth Warren On 'War And Peace'
Sen. Elizabeth Warren answers three questions about Leo Tolstoy's classic novel War and Peace.