Author Interviews

Democratic Rep. Cori Bush on her memoir and her 'politivist' approach to Congress

4:11pm October 04, 2022

Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., talks with NPR's Juana Summers about her memoir, The Forerunner. It details the sometimes harrowing struggles that shaped her political rise.

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Ricks' book argues the nonviolent Civil Rights movement employed a military strategy

7:25am October 04, 2022

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to journalist Thomas Ricks about his book on a military history of the civil rights movement: Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968.

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Adam Silvera speaks onstage at the 2020 Audie Awards Gala at Guastavino's in New York City on March 2, 2020.

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'The First to Die At The End' could be the newest Adam Silvera YA blockbuster

6:27am October 04, 2022

by Brandon Gates

YA phenom Adam Silvera has a new novel out Oct. 4. It's a prequel to his blockbuster They Both Die At the End, which is still on The New York Times bestsellers list after more than two years.

McKinsey & Company management consulting firm operates in more than 60 countries.

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How McKinsey cashed in by consulting for both companies and their regulators

3:28pm October 03, 2022

by Dave Davies

When McKinsey Comes to Town authors Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe say the consulting firm helped companies boost tobacco and opioid sales — while at the same time working for the FDA.

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Celeste Ng on her latest novel 'Our Missing Hearts'

8:36am October 02, 2022

by Ayesha Rascoe

A 12 year-old boy learns the truth about his missing mother and his dystopian society in "Our Missing Hearts." NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Celeste Ng about her new novel.

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Jacques Pépin, pictured in his home in Connecticut in August, has a new book called Art of the Chicken.

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America's most famous French chef on the 'Art of the Chicken' and a life well lived

7:48am October 01, 2022

Jacques Pépin has cooked for France's president and was a friend of Julia Child. His new memoir — complete with paintings, recipes and stories — is dedicated to his love of all things chicken.

'Mercury Rising' explores treacherous U.S. attempts to control space

5:46pm September 30, 2022

by Dave Davies

Historian Jeff Shesol recalls the early days of the space program, when Cold War fears ruled and no one knew if John Glenn would survive America's first orbital flight. Originally broadcast June 2021.

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Anthony Christian Ocampo's latest book is 'Brown and Gay in LA'

5:10am September 29, 2022

NPR's A Martinez speaks with author Anthony Christian Ocampo about his book Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons.

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Remembering Hilary Mantel, Booker Prize-winning author of the 'Wolf Hall' saga

1:23pm September 28, 2022

by Terry Gross

The British writer, who died Sept. 22, wrote a trilogy of critically acclaimed historical novels on the life of Thomas Cromwell, one of Henry VIII's most trusted advisors. Originally broadcast in '12.

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The death of a boy fractures a family in Namwali Serpell's 2nd novel 'The Furrows'

5:30pm September 27, 2022

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Namwali Serpell about her new novel — The Furrows: An Elegy.