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April 29th, 2024

 

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Brian Raftery, author of the book, Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen.
Posted: April 28, 2024, 9:26 pm
Food writer and editor Ruth Reichl's new book, "The Paris Novel," is a coming-of age story full of the author's favorite things: Art, fashion, literature, 1980s Paris, and - of course - oysters.
Author: Scott Simon
Posted: April 27, 2024, 12:23 pm
Green's YA novel, Turtles All The Way Down, has been recently adapted to film. Green described living with OCD, and how "one little thought" could take over his mind, in this 2017 interview.
Author: Terry Gross
Posted: April 26, 2024, 5:41 pm
Trees communicate. They migrate. They protect. They heal. We climbed into the NPR archives to find some of our favorite arboreal fiction, nonfiction, and kids' lit — get ready to branch out.
Author: Beth Novey
Posted: April 26, 2024, 11:00 am
The Letters of Emily Dickinson collects 1,304 letters, starting with one she wrote at age 11. Her singular voice comes into its own in the letters of the 1860s, which often blur into poems.
Author: Maureen Corrigan
Posted: April 25, 2024, 2:14 pm
Walters was the first woman to co-anchor a national news show on prime time television. "The path she cut is one that many of us have followed," says biographer Susan Page, author of The Rulebreaker.
Author: Tonya Mosley
Posted: April 24, 2024, 5:37 pm
NPR's A Martinez speaks with photojournalist Ivan McClellan about his new book documenting Black cowboys, Eight Seconds: Black Rodeo Culture.
Author: Olivia Hampton
Posted: April 24, 2024, 9:00 am
Author Adam Moss interviewed more than 40 creative minds to find out how they went from a blank page to finished work of art.
Author: Ari Shapiro
Posted: April 24, 2024, 9:00 am
NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Emily Henry about her new book FUNNY STORY and the difficulty of writing a genuinely nice person while also creating obstacles in getting two people together.
Author: Elena Burnett
Posted: April 23, 2024, 8:55 pm
Joan Nathan has spent her life exploring in the kitchen, but for the Passover Seder, she sticks with a menu that follows her own family's traditions.
Author: Ari Shapiro
Posted: April 23, 2024, 8:05 pm