Author Interviews

Lou Reed performs in New York City in 2004. "I wanted to write a book that took Lou ... seriously," says biographer Anthony DeCurtis.

Biographer Sought To Write The Kind Of Book Lou Reed 'Deserved'

12:01pm November 08, 2017

by Terry Gross

"It wasn't like I had to go looking for the drugs and the sex," Anthony DeCurtis says. "Lou wrote about it ... so I felt it was fair game." DeCurtis' new book is Lou Reed: A Life.

Bo, the first dog, boards Air Force One for a weekend trip to Chicago on May 27, 2010.

Photographer Pete Souza Reflects On 8 Years (And 1.9 Million Photos) Of Obama

4:11pm November 07, 2017

by Terry Gross

As the chief official White House photographer for President Obama, Souza sometimes shot more than 2,000 photos a day. "I was there all the time," he says. His new book is Obama: An Intimate Portrait.

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Matthew Weiner attends the Mad Men Live Read at the Ace Hotel in Los Angeles.

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'Mad Men' Creator Says Writing A Novel Is Nothing Like TV Writing

8:10am November 06, 2017

by Lynn Neary

Matthew Weiner's first novel is Heather, the Totality. It's a character study of a well-to-do New York family — and a violence-prone construction worker who becomes obsessed with their daughter.

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Actress Jenifer Lewis details her journey to the spotlight in her memoir The Mother of Black Hollywood.

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Jenifer Lewis Of 'Black-ish' Reflects On Her Role As Black Hollywood's Mother

9:32pm November 05, 2017

by Noel King

Actress Jenifer Lewis' new memoir The Mother of Black Hollywood explores her decades-long career and her role as the mom character to black actors in TV and film.

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The Property Brothers, Drew and Jonathan Scott, have a new memoir called It Takes Two.

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The Property Brothers Flip A Page On Their TV Triumphs

12:43pm November 05, 2017

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

If you've ever watched HGTV, you've probably come across Drew and Jonathan Scott — the twins from Canada who are the darlings of home improvement. Their new book is called It Takes Two.

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'Invisible No More' Examines Police Violence Against Minority Women

9:00am November 05, 2017

by Cheryl Corley

Author Andrea Ritchie wants the incidents of police violence involving women of color and transgender women to get as much attention as black men and boys have received in recent years.

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A Messy Protagonist In 'Bonfire'

8:06am November 05, 2017

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

In her debut novel Bonfire, Krysten Ritter's protagonist is complicated, much like the women Ritter is known for portraying. She tells NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro about why she thinks that's important.

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The World Is A Family Tree In 'It's All Relative'

8:13am November 04, 2017

A.J. Jacobs' latest book explains how basically everyone in the world is related to each other. He talks to NPR's Scott Simon about It's All Relative.

Clifton Fadiman looks over a shipment of wine in 1984. His daughter, Anne Fadiman, says she was never able to appreciate wine the way her father did.

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A 'Wine Lover's Daughter' Savors Her Dad's Vintage Story

8:13am November 04, 2017

by Scott Simon

Anne Fadiman writes about her father's journey from poor Brooklyn Jew to wine connoisseur. She says, "Along with books, wine represented the sort of cultivated, refined life that he had aspired to."

Dan Rather speaks at the Gotham Independent Film Awards in 2015. His new collection of essays is called What Unites Us.

Dan Rather, An Unlikely Essayist, On 'What Unites Us'

5:44pm November 03, 2017

by Ari Shapiro

Equally optimistic and concerned, the longtime television news anchor — now a Facebook phenomenon — has written a book that doesn't hide his love of country.

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