Author Jennifer Keishin Armstrong tells Scott Simon about four visionary women who were behind early hit TV shows. Her new book is When Women Invented Television.
Roya Hakakian was a teenager when she came to the United States from Iran. she says she hopes her book will help native-born Americans see all the small signs of democracy they don't usually notice.
Science fiction author Charlie Jane Anders explains how the genre is a portal for us to imagine different ways of being human. She invites listeners into one new world with an excerpt from her work.
In his debut novel, Jakob Guanzon wanted to write about hunger and need and the one thing that's inescapable for anyone living paycheck-to-paycheck: The fluctuating numbers of your budget.
The Nobel Prize-winning novelist says he honed his skills earlier in his career "as a writer of songs." Ishiguro's new book, Klara And The Sun, is set in the future and has an A.I. narrator.
New York Times tech columnist Kevin Roose says we've been approaching automation all wrong. "We should be teaching people ... to be more like humans, to do the things that machines can't do," he says.
W. Ralph Eubanks' new book examines Mississippi's mighty contributions to American literature, and what writers like Eudora Welty and Jesmyn Ward can teach us about broader national issues.