Author Interviews

Former prosecutor says Manhattan DA could have charged Trump with multiple crimes

1:43pm February 07, 2023

by Dave Davies

Mark Pomerantz spent a year investigating Trump, from the hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels, to countless financial statements that wildly overstated assets. His book is People Vs. Donald Trump.

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Fenkl's 'Skull Water' delves into friendship, belonging and displacement

5:00am February 07, 2023

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with author Heinz Insu Fenkl about his novel Skull Water, which is based on many of his own experiences in South Korea in the 1970s.

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Sadeqa Johnson on her novel 'The House of Eve'

8:04am February 05, 2023

by Ayesha Rascoe

The lives of two Black women in the 1950s intersect over pregnancy and adoption. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Sadeqa Johnson about her novel, "The House of Eve."

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Thomas Mallon on his new novel 'Up With The Sun'

8:01am February 04, 2023

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon talks with author Thomas Mallon. His new novel, "Up With The Sun," draws on the real life, and murder, of a stage and screen actor from the 1950's and '60s.

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DK Nnuro on his debut novel 'What Napoleon Could Not Do'

8:01am February 04, 2023

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with writer DK Nnuro about his debut novel, "What Napoleon Could Not Do," which looks at differences between how African Americans and Black immigrants view the U.S.

The Wife of Bath from The Ellesmere Manuscript, one of the earliest manuscripts of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.

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A Wife of Bath 'biography' brings a modern woman out of the Middle Ages

8:01am February 04, 2023

by Neda Ulaby

Dreamed up by Geoffrey Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales more than 600 years ago, the Wife of Bath was known for her lusty appetites, gossipy asides and fondness for wine.

Photo of Alice Wong, an Asian American disabled woman in a power chair, against a background of bamboo trees. She is wearing a blue cardigan and sitting in a power chair. She is wearing a bold red lip color and a trach at her neck.

Activist Alice Wong reflects on 'The Year of the Tiger' and her hopes for 2023

7:00am February 04, 2023

by Thomas Lu

In the Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life, Alice Wong shares pieces of her story and experience as a disabled Asian American through a collection of essays, interviews, photos and illustrations.

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Novelist Julie Otsuka draws on her own family history in 'The Swimmers'

1:33pm February 03, 2023

by Terry Gross

Otsuka has recently been awarded the Carnegie Medal for Excellence for her novel about a Japanese American woman who's lost much of her memory to dementia. Originally broadcast Feb. 22, 2022.

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Encore: Author Jas Hammond on their book, 'We Deserve Monuments'

4:35pm February 02, 2023

NPR's Juana Summers talks with author Jas Hammond about their book, We Deserve Monuments. It's a young adult love story and a family mystery that explores intergenerational trauma and racism.

A journalist ventures inside one of the world's most notorious terrorist groups

1:17pm February 02, 2023

by Dave Davies

Jere Van Dyk has spent years in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where he got to know leaders of the Haqqani network, responsible for many suicide bombings and kidnappings. His new book is Without Borders.

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