Author Interviews

Alice Carrière has written a new memoir called Everything/Nothing/Someone.

She was convinced she didn't exist. This is how she tethered herself to reality

5:00am August 31, 2023

As Alice Carrière entered her teen years, her brain started to splinter into a dissociative disorder. Year later, that extraordinary childhood is the basis for her new memoir.

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U.S. employers are using AI to essentially reduce workers to numbers in the workplace

6:28am August 30, 2023

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with Ifeoma Ajunwa, author of The Quantified Worker, about how work lives have become quantified for the benefit of employers.

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'The Breakaway' explores how society impacts a woman's relationship with her body

5:27pm August 29, 2023

NPR's Juana Summers talks with author Jennifer Weiner about her latest novel The Breakaway. explores a woman's relationship with her body is influenced by society's rules and expectations.

Alice Carriere pulled from an extraordinary childhood to write her new memoir

5:07pm August 29, 2023

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with writer Alice Carriere about her debut novel, Everything/Nothing/Someone.

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Vanessa Zoltan's memoir is all about how she learned to read literature like sacred texts.

This 'Jane Eyre' enthusiast invites you to treat your favorite books as sacred text

6:00am August 27, 2023

by Rachel Martin

Author and atheist chaplain Vanessa Zoltan finds spiritual meaning not in the Bible or the Torah but in secular texts.

Books

Angie Kim on her novel 'Happiness Falls'

8:07am August 26, 2023

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon talks with novelist Angie Kim about her family thriller, "Happiness Falls." It's about a missing father and his special needs son who may or may not know what happened to him.

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Author Hilary Leichter on her book 'Terrace Story'

8:07am August 26, 2023

by Scott Simon

In the new novel "Terrace Story," the lead character can turn a tiny closet into a lush terrace - through the power of her mind. NPR's Scott Simon talks with author Hilary Leichter.

A woman passes by a mural of the rapper Biggie Smalls on a wall in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn.

As hip-hop turns 50, Biggie Smalls' legacy reminds us of what the genre has survived

2:46pm August 23, 2023

by Tonya Mosley

Author Justin Tinsley discusses the life and legacy of the Notorious B.I.G., who was killed in 1997: "You can't talk about the story of hip-hop without mentioning the name Biggie Smalls."

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How did a family achieve the American dream — only to see it unravel?

5:14am August 23, 2023

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Indian American writer Prachi Gupta about how chasing the American dream destroyed her relationship with her parents. Her new book is: They Called Us Exceptional.

The book 'In the Upper Country' looks at the Underground Railroad's history in Canada

6:37pm August 22, 2023

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with author Kai Thomas about his debut novel In the Upper Country and exploring the Underground Railroad's little-known history in a community of free Black people in Canada.

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