Author Interviews

Brothers Jay (left) and Mark Duplass have been making films together since they were kids. Their new memoir is Like Brothers.

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Duplass Brothers On Working Together And Growing Apart: 'We Are Ex-Soulmates'

1:11pm May 08, 2018

by Terry Gross

Filmmaker siblings Jay and Mark Duplass have been making movies together since they were kids. More recently, Mark says, "We had to dig out space from that beautiful co-dependence."

Lidia Bastianich owns restaurants in New York, as well as in several other cities.

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How 'Peasant Food' Helped Chef Lidia Bastianich Achieve Her 'American Dream'

1:18pm May 07, 2018

by Terry Gross

Bastianich grew up eating farm-to-table meals with her Italian family. After they fled Europe as refugees and emigrated to America, she drew on those childhood meals in opening her first restaurant.

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Author Finds Resilience, Love And 'Beauty In The Broken Places'

6:54pm May 06, 2018

Allison Pataki was on an airplane with her husband when he suffered an extremely rare, nearly fatal stroke. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Pataki about her memoir Beauty in the Broken Places.

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A man pours milk into a can in India's Mayong village in 2015. India is the world's largest producer and consumer of milk.

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Milk! The 'Most Over-Argued Food In History'

8:34am May 06, 2018

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

Author Mark Kurlansky discusses his new book Milk! with NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro, and the roots of modern debates on dairy.

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Looking At 'Race And The Royals' Ahead Of Royal Wedding

8:28am May 06, 2018

Aatish Taseer chronicles some of his experiences dating British minor royalty in a recent Vanity Fair article. He tells NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro what he learned.

detail from the cover of That Kind of Mother

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In 'That Kind Of Mother,' A White Mom, A Black Son

8:28am May 06, 2018

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

Rumaan Alam's new novel starts out as a tale of female friendship between a woman and her child's nanny. Then it becomes a different sort of story — one about an unconventional parenthood.

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Exploring 'The Heritage' Of Black Athletes

8:07am May 05, 2018

In his book The Heritage, Howard Bryant makes the case that black athletes carry a heritage of activism and tells NPR's Scott Simon why some fans have a hard time with that.

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How To Make Movies 'Like Brothers'

8:07am May 05, 2018

NPR's Scott Simon asks brothers Mark and Jay Duplass about working together as filmmakers and about their new book, Like Brothers.

U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul leaves the Foreign Ministry in Moscow on May 15, 2013.

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Ex-Ambassador Michael McFaul Traces U.S.-Russia Ties 'From Cold War To Hot Peace'

8:23pm May 04, 2018

by Rachel Martin

In a new book, McFaul, who served as ambassador to Russia in the Obama administration, recalls how attacks against him got personal and offers his advice to current Ambassador Jon Huntsman Jr..

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In Dave Eggers' New Book, Heroic Kids Do The Heavy Lifting

5:26pm May 03, 2018

by Audie Cornish

The Lifters takes some of today's grown-up economic concerns and folds them into a supernatural story for kids. Kids are "heroes in waiting," Eggers says; they just need a chance to prove it.

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