Author Interviews

Indian traders and vendors negotiate prices at a wholesale vegetable market in Hyderabad. The Indian economy grew at 7.1 percent for the 2016-2017 financial year.

With Greater Economic Strength, India Believes Its 'Time Has Come'

7:00am January 14, 2018

by Nishant Dahiya

"I don't think India wants to be a formal U.S. ally," says Alyssa Ayres, author of Our Time Has Come: How India Is Making Its Place in the World. "It sees alliance relationships as too constraining."

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Arts

Reproductive Freedom Lies Just Outside The U.S. Border In 'Red Clocks'

6:20pm January 13, 2018

by Scott Simon

Leni Zumas' new novel follows five women in an Oregon town, living in an alternate reality where abortion and IVF are illegal — a world that Zumas says "could happen next week."

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In a rush to buy journalist and author Michael Wolff's book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, buyers have mistakenly purchased Randall Hansen's book of a similar name, Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-1945.

Author Of The Other 'Fire And Fury' Book Says Business Is Booming

1:53pm January 11, 2018

Historian and author Randall Hansen's book, Fire And Fury: The Allied Bombing Of Germany 1942-1945, has been mistaken by buyers for Michael Wolff's Trump exposé and selling out.

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Lea Berman, White House social secretary for President George W. Bush, looks over flower arrangements in the State Dining Room before a state dinner for U.S. governors.

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Former White House Social Secretaries On The Value Of 'Treating People Well'

5:53pm January 09, 2018

by Ari Shapiro

Lea Berman worked for President George W. Bush; Jeremy Bernard for President Obama. They draw on their White House experiences for a book about the importance of civility in getting things done.

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Patrice Banks own the Girls Auto Clinic in Upper Darby, Pa.

Girls Auto Clinic Owner: 'I Couldn't Find A Female Mechanic, So I Had To Learn'

1:47pm January 09, 2018

by Terry Gross

There was a time when Patrice Banks avoided taking her car in for routine maintenance. Now, she's a trained mechanic, and the owner of a garage that caters to women.

'Fire And Fury' Author Michael Wolff Discusses Bannon's Role In White House

10:35pm January 08, 2018

NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks with journalist and author Michael Wolff about his book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House. Wolff discusses Steve Bannon's role in the White House and his future relationship with the Republican party.

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Books

Predicting Death In 'The Immortalists'

8:06am January 07, 2018

The siblings in Chloe Benjamin's new book, The Immortalists, are told the date they will die. The knowledge changes their lives in fundamental ways. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with the author.

Red Sky at Noon, by Simon Sebag Montefiore

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In 'Red Sky At Noon,' A Western On The Eastern Front

6:05am January 06, 2018

by Scott Simon

Simon Sebag Montefiore's new novel, set during World War II, follows a Jewish political prisoner who's pressed into a battalion of convicts and Cossacks and sent to fight the Nazis on horseback.

Dr. Timothy Leary, an advocate for LSD, working at his desk.

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Nixon's Manhunt For The High Priest Of LSD In 'The Most Dangerous Man In America'

4:58pm January 05, 2018

by Ari Shapiro

Author Bill Minutaglio's new book chronicles Timothy Leary's international escape from a California prison and the president's campaign to make him the poster child for his war on drugs.

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Even one minute of "daily-ish" meditation can make a difference in reducing stress, according to Dan Harris, the author of Meditation For Fidgety Skeptics.

'Meditation For Fidgety Skeptics' Offers Practical Advice For Stressed-Out Cynics

4:43pm January 04, 2018

by Rachel Martin

Trying to reduce anxiety and stress in 2018? If the idea of meditation makes you want to toss your coffee cup across the room, ABC News anchor Dan Harris offers some advice in his new book.

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