Author Interviews

'NFL Confidential': Anonymous Player On Why He Loathes The League

6:07pm January 07, 2016

From concussions to domestic violence, a current pro football player tells all about what's it really like on the gridiron and beyond in NFL Confidential: True Confessions from the Gutter of Football.

Former paramedic Kevin Hazzard says he received "zero training" before driving an ambulance for the first time.

Paramedic Shares His Wild Ride Treating 'A Thousand Naked Strangers'

5:15pm January 05, 2016

Kevin Hazzard, who worked as an Atlanta paramedic, rescued people from choking, overdoses, cardiac arrest, gunshot wounds and a host of other medical emergencies. Respiratory calls were his favorites.

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Food Culture Gives Rise To New 'Eatymology'

8:01pm January 04, 2016

by NPR Staff

From brogurt to gastrosexual, humorist and food writer Josh Friedland has collected many of the new words born of our current foodie culture in a new food dictionary, Eatymology.

Author Profiles The 'Traumatized People' Living In The World's Largest Refugee Camp

2:35pm January 04, 2016

Founded in 1991 as a temporary shelter for Somalis, the Dadaab complex in Kenya now houses nearly half a million refugees. Ben Rawlence profiles nine of its residents in his new book, City of Thorns.

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All American Boys, by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely.

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Authors Of 'All American Boys' Talk About How Book Has Sparked Race Discussion

11:37am January 02, 2016

In All American Boys, a video of a policeman beating a black student goes viral. The book's authors, Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely, talk about how their story is sparking conversations about race.

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Charlie Hebdo, The Licensed Anarchist Clowns Of French Society

7:54am January 02, 2016

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Adam Gopnik, who wrote the foreword to Open Letter, a manifesto by Stephane Charbonnier, the editor of Charlie Hebdo who was killed when gunmen attacked the paper's offices.

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With 'Sophia,' A Forgotten Suffragette Is Back In The Headlines

5:25pm December 31, 2015

by Petra Mayer

We get hundreds of books in the mail every week, and some always fall through the cracks. NPR's Petra Mayer singles out a biography of a Sikh princess turned suffragette for a second look.

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How Clementine Churchill Wielded Influence As Winston's Wife

9:36am December 31, 2015

by NPR Staff

Biographer Sonia Purnell says Clementine once remarked that she "would have loved to have been a statesman in her own right if only she had been born with trousers rather than petticoats."

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'Fear And Clothing': A Travelogue Of America Through The Clothes We Wear

5:49am December 31, 2015

by Jackie Lyden

Author Cintra Wilson says she's a fashion outsider. She calls her book — Fear and Clothing: Unbuckling American Style — a psychological invasion of America's closets, including her own.

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At 81, Feminist Gloria Steinem Finds Herself Free Of The 'Demands Of Gender'

1:34pm December 30, 2015

As she approached 60, the co-founder of Ms. magazine says, she entered a new phase in life, one in which "you can do what you want." Originally broadcast Oct. 26, 2015.

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