Author Interviews

How The 'Battling' Kellogg Brothers Revolutionized American Breakfast

2:07pm July 06, 2018

by Terry Gross

Medical historian Howard Markel chronicles the contentious relationship between the brothers who created of Corn Flakes and other mass-produced boxed cereals. Originally broadcast Aug. 10, 2017.

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Amy Adams plays Camille Preaker in the HBO adaptation of Gillian Flynn's mystery novel Sharp Objects.

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Gillian Flynn's 'Sharp Objects' Is A Whodunit ... And A Who Is She?

12:51pm July 06, 2018

by Lynn Neary

Amy Adams stars as Camille Preaker in the HBO adaptation of the mystery novel. Flynn helped adapt the book for the screen, and says the story is a murder mystery wrapped around a character study.

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In 'Light Of The Stars,' Adam Frank Studies Alien Worlds To Find Earth's Fate

5:32pm July 05, 2018

Astrophysicist Adam Frank has a new book out, Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth. He talks to NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about it.

Former Ambassador To Russia Looks Ahead To Trump's Summit With Putin

1:27pm July 03, 2018

by Terry Gross

Michael McFaul, who sat in on meetings between Putin and Obama, warns that the Russian president "doesn't meet just for the sake of a meeting; he seeks to advance Russian interests."

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The Scientists Who Explore Human Hormones In 'Aroused'

8:14am July 01, 2018

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Dr. Randi Hutter Epstein about her new book Aroused, which tells the story of the scientific quest to understand human hormones.

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Remembering Former Poet Laureate Donald Hall

2:34pm June 29, 2018

by Terry Gross

Hall, who died on Saturday, wrote about farm work and his wife, poet Jane Kenyon, in the 1993 memoir Life Work. He and Kenyon spoke to Fresh Air in 1996, and Hall was interviewed again in '02 and '12.

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Halevi's 'Letters To My Palestinian Neighbor' Looks For Common Ground

6:22am June 28, 2018

Israeli writer Yossi Klein Halevi is determined to reach across the divide to Palestinians who share his homeland. He writes letters about faith and longing to an anonymous Palestinian neighbor.

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'Squeezed' Explores Why America Is Getting Too Expensive For The Middle Class

1:54pm June 26, 2018

by Terry Gross

Author Alissa Quart writes that the costs of housing, child care, health care and college are outpacing salaries and threatening the livelihoods of middle class Americans.

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Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha spearheaded efforts to publicize and address the water crisis in Flint, Mich.

Pediatrician Who Exposed Flint Water Crisis Shares Her 'Story Of Resistance'

12:35pm June 26, 2018

by Terry Gross

After warning of elevated lead levels in her patients in Flint, Mich., Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha faced a backlash: "The state said that I was an unfortunate researcher, that I was causing near-hysteria."

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'What The Eyes Don't See' In Flint

8:04am June 24, 2018

NPR's Susan Davis talks with Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha about her new memoir which tells the story of her research that helped expose widespread lead poisoning of Flint, Mich.'s drinking water.