Author Interviews

Why Aren't Parents Getting Their Children Vaccinated?

6:55am April 29, 2019

The U.S. went from measles-free in 2000 to the largest outbreak in 25 years. NPR's David Greene talks to Jennifer Reich, author of Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines.

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#NPRPoetry Month: Poet Danez Smith

5:13pm April 28, 2019

NPR's Michel Martin talks Twitter poetry with Danez Smith, co-host of The Poetry Foundation's VS podcast.

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How A 'Mama's Boy' And His Mama Found A Path Beyond Politics

8:58am April 28, 2019

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

Screenwriter Dustin Lance Black's new book is a memoir of his relationship with his mother, and how they found a way forward after he came out as gay and left the Mormon church that she loved.

April is National Poetry Month. From left to right, poets: Kaveh Akbar, Fatimah Asghar, Ada Limon, Hieu Minh Nguyen and Ashley M. Jones.

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A Bouquet Of Poets For National Poetry Month

6:01am April 28, 2019

Looks like this year, April showers brought April flowers. As in, a bouquet of outstanding poets. So stop and smell the roses, my friends.

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'Inspection' Doesn't Quite Live Up To Its Surprising Premise

1:07pm April 27, 2019

by Bethanne Patrick

Josh Malerman's latest imagines two towers full of boys and girls, raised in isolation and ignorance of the opposite sex, but spends too much time creating a world and not enough on its consequences.

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The U.S.-Canada Relationship In 'The Art Of Diplomacy'

8:41am April 27, 2019

Vicki Heyman and Bruce Heyman, former U.S. ambassador to Canada, speak with NPR's Scott Simon about their new book, The Art of Diplomacy.

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Real Photos Inspire A Fictional Life In 'Feast Your Eyes'

5:14pm April 25, 2019

by Ari Shapiro

Myla Goldberg's new novel is written as an exhibition catalogue for photographer Lillian Preston, who's fictional — but her story of ambition and controversy in 1950s New York is real and relatable.

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Palliative care is a growing specialty that provides comfort care and that teaches patients and doctors how to talk about patients' goals for life with serious disease — and how to prepare for a good ending.

A Good Life And A Good Death: What Is Palliative Care?

3:54pm April 25, 2019

by Carmel Wroth

In That Good Night, palliative care doctor Sunita Puri shares insights from her years caring for patients with serious illness. She sees her role as an advocate and ally — every step of the way.

The Libro de los Epítomes, a guidebook to the 16th century library of Hernando Colón, recently turned up in a manuscript archive in Denmark.

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Christopher Columbus' Son Had An Enormous Library. Its Catalog Was Just Found

5:25pm April 24, 2019

by Ari Shapiro

In the 16th century, Hernando Colón assembled one of the greatest print-media collections the world had ever known. For centuries, its reference book was missing — until it turned up in Denmark.

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In 'Choked,' Beth Gardiner Looks At The Origins Of The Clean Air Act

4:17pm April 22, 2019

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with environmental journalist Beth Gardiner about the origins of the Clean Air Act, which she writes about in her book Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution.

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