Author Interviews

How Ted Kennedy's '80 Challenge To President Carter 'Broke The Democratic Party'

1:31pm January 17, 2019

by Dave Davies

Journalist Jon Ward talks about the chaos that led Kennedy to challenge Carter for the Democratic nomination — and the long-lasting damage it did to the party. Ward's new book is Camelot's End.

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Reyna Grande on Her Latest Memoir, 'A Dream Called Home'

5:01am January 17, 2019

Bestselling author, Reyna Grande, tells Maria Hinojosa about her latest memoir, "A Dream Called Home."

Marianne Power set out to live one year of her life according to the advice of self-help books. She tells the story in her new book Help Me!

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Feel The Fear — And Read It Anyway: 'Help Me!' Documents A Year Of Self-Help Books

5:48pm January 16, 2019

by Mary Louise Kelly

Marianne Power decided to read one self-help book a month, for a year — and follow the advice in each, to the letter. She says it became a much more intense undertaking than she'd anticipated.

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Building Walls Are Not A Solution To A Problem, Author Says

6:37am January 16, 2019

NPR's Noel King talks to Marcello Di Cintio, author of Walls: Travels Along the Barricades, about the political and cultural effects of installing barriers between nations.

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1:54pm January 15, 2019

Immortal Technique, Taina and Reyna Grande's New Memoir

Pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber Gets 'Shameless' About Sex

12:28pm January 14, 2019

by Sarah McCammon

Bolz-Weber's new book pulls from her own experiences, stories told by her parishioners and the Bible itself for an examination of the way conservative Christian ideas about sex affect our lives.

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The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary

After 24 Years, Scholar Completes 3,000-Page Translation Of The Hebrew Bible

5:02am January 14, 2019

by Rachel Martin

Literary scholar Robert Alter says he didn't think the existing English translations of the Bible did justice to the original Hebrew. So he spent nearly a quarter century writing his own — by hand.

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'Cat Person' Author's New Book Evokes #MeToo Themes

7:43am January 13, 2019

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Kristen Roupenian, the author of a new book of short stories called You Know You Want This. Roupenian's short story "Cat Person" went viral in 2017.

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'Bluff City' Captures Photographer Ernest Withers During Civil Rights Movement

8:13am January 12, 2019

NPR's Scott Simon asks Bluff City author Preston Lauterbach about the undisclosed life of Ernest Withers, a celebrated civil rights photographer and FBI informant.

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Detail from the cover of The Day the Sun Died by Yan Lianke

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A Celebrated Chinese Novelist Dreams Up A Nightmare Sci-Fi Allegory

8:13am January 12, 2019

by Scott Simon

Yan Lianke's newest book The Day the Sun Died is now available in English in the United States. "Certainly it's a very sharp critique of contemporary society," he says.

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