Author Interviews

Dr. Fauci Testifies In House On COVID Origins

Why Anthony Fauci approaches every trip to the White House as if it's his last

4:30pm June 18, 2024

by Dave Davies

Over the course of his decades-long career in public health, Fauci vowed he would never shy away from speaking truth the U.S. president— even when it was inconvenient. Fauci's memoir is On Call.

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Carvell Wallace, author of 'Another Word for Love'

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Carvell Wallace searches for 'Another Word for Love'

12:31pm June 18, 2024

In his new memoir, Another Word for Love, Carvell Wallace lays out his journey to find self-acceptance after a childhood colored by instability. Host Brittany Luse sits down with Carvell to talk about how he built new language around love and his new perspectives on recovery and healing.

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'Night of the Living Rez' author Morgan Talty follows up with novel 'Fire Exit'

9:45pm June 16, 2024

by Andrew Limbong

Writer Morgan Talty's short story collection Night of the Living Rez won him many fans and awards. Now he's back with his first novel.

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John Vercher's novel 'Devil Is Fine' tackles grief through magical realism

4:15pm June 16, 2024

by Lauren Frayer

NPR's Lauren Frayer talks with John Vercher about his new novel, "Devil Is Fine," in which a grieving father's sense of reality shifts with a sudden, surprising, and disturbing inheritance.

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Claire Lombardo on her novel 'Same As It Ever Was'

3:36pm June 15, 2024

NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben talks with Claire Lombardo about the loneliness of motherhood, the complexity of female friendships, and her new novel, "Same As It Ever Was."

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'Satchel' recalls the iconic pitcher who helped integrate Major League Baseball

5:10pm June 14, 2024

by Dave Davies

Hall of Famer Satchel Paige started his career pitching in the Negro leagues and later became a major league star. Author Larry Tye tells his story in Satchel. Originally broadcast in 2010.

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Questlove on hip-hop, history and the first time he heard 'Rapper's Delight'

5:35pm June 11, 2024

by Terry Gross

The Roots bandleader says hearing The Sugarhill Gang's 1980 hit felt like a paradigm shift: "Suddenly they start talking in rhythmic poetry and we didn't know what to make of it."

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Nicola Yoon on her novel 'One of Our Kind' and trauma in Black American life

3:45pm June 09, 2024

Jasmyn Williams moves to an all-Black community, where everyone is suspiciously happy. Is it the spa treatments? NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Nicola Yoon about her new novel, "One of Our Kind."

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A young girl grapples with life post World War I in 'Gretel and the Great War'

3:25pm June 08, 2024

NPR's Scott Simon talks with author Adam Ehrlich Sachs about his new novel "Gretel and the Great War." The book follows a young girl in Vienna at the end of World War I.

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Kyne wearing her hyperbolic plane dress. Author photo by Fabian Di Corcia.

Drag queen Kyne Santos explores how math is 'beautiful' in new book 'Math in Drag'

3:01am June 07, 2024

Kyne Santos was a student at the University of Waterloo when she began her math and her drag careers. She compares her double life to Hannah Montana, doing math equations at school by day and drag at night. You may already know Kyne from TikTok, where she makes educational videos about math, science, history and drag. And now, in her new book Math in Drag, Kyne explores the connections between math and drag: How both can be creative, beautiful and most of all, fun.

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