Author Interviews

For Christine Blasey Ford, the fallout of the Kavanaugh hearing is ongoing

1:51pm March 19, 2024

by Terry Gross

In 2018, Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her when they were in high school. Her new memoir is One Way Back.

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Christine Blasey Ford aims to own her story with 'One Way Back'

5:07am March 18, 2024

by Reena Advani

In an interview with NPR, Ford says it was only a couple of years ago that she felt ready to revisit how her life was upended by Brett Kavanaugh's rise to a position on the U.S. Supreme Court.

A store in Monrovia, Liberia, advertises Coca-Cola. The photo is from circa 1947.

Q&A: Author of 'Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African' on Coke's surprising history

5:11pm March 17, 2024

by Diane Cole

How did the soda giant from America come to be seen as "local" in Africa? And what has the impact been on the continent for worse and for better?

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'The Exvangelicals' follows the lives of people who loved, then left the Church

8:19am March 17, 2024

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Sarah McCammon, NPR National Political Correspondent, about her religious upbringing and new book, "The Exvangelicals."

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Historian Charles Spencer on his memoir 'A Very Private School'

8:03am March 16, 2024

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Charles Spencer, historian and Princess Diana's brother, about his memoir, "A Very Private School." It relates disturbing stories about his time in boarding school.

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Author Michael Ondaatje talks about 'A Year of Last Things', his collection of poems

8:03am March 16, 2024

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon asks "The English Patient" author Michael Ondaatje about his new collection of poems, "A Year of Last Things."

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At your service: A restaurant maître d' tells all in 'Your Table Is Ready'

1:25pm March 15, 2024

by Dave Davies

Michael Cecchi-Azzolina has worked in several of New York City's hottest restaurants, where he encountered celebrities, captains of finance and one bonafide mobster. Originally broadcast Dec. 6, 2022.

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Author Percival Everett photographed in Pasadena, Calif., on Oct. 28, 2022.

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Percival Everett gives Mark Twain's classic story about Huck a new voice in 'James'

11:14am March 15, 2024

by Andrew Limbong

Prolific writer Percival Everett often skewers different corners of American society. His latest novel James is written from the point of view of the character Jim, from Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn.

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Daniel Lewis explored the roles of different trees play his new book, 'Twelve Trees'

6:23pm March 14, 2024

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with writer Daniel Lewis about his new book, Twelve Trees, which zeroes in on a different tree species in each chapter.

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'How to Win an Information War' details fighting with — and against — propaganda

1:27pm March 14, 2024

by Terry Gross

Peter Pomerantsev co-founded a project recording Russian atrocities in Ukraine to combat Russian disinformation. His new book profiles a WWII propagandist who targeted the Nazi regime.

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