Listen to Jhumpa Lahiri read a short story

Posted on 07/11/2018 at 06:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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Happy birthday, Jhumpa Lahiri! The Pulitzer Prize winner and Guggenheim Fellow turned fifty-one today. To celebrate, The...

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Tagged As: Podcast, Short story

Robin Williams biographer appears on The Book Show podcast

Posted on 07/01/2018 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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New York Times culture reporter Dave Itzkoff has written a biography of beloved comedian/actor Robin Williams, titled si...

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Michael Pollan takes a bite out of a new subject

Posted on 06/26/2018 at 05:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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Love Michael Pollan’s food writing? Well, he's consuming something slightly different nowadays. Pollan, a...

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Tagged As: Nonfiction, Podcast, The Guardian

Former Obama advisor chats about new memoir

Posted on 06/18/2018 at 09:13 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Memoir of "Pod Save America" co-host and advisor to former President Barack Obama

Dan Pfeiffer, one of President Barack Obama’s longest-serving advisors, has written a memoir about his time in the...

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Tagged As: Memoir, New release, NPR, Podcast

Author Q&A: Katie Ganshert

Posted on 06/14/2018 at 08:53 AM by Jeffrey Bruner

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We can’t resist celebrating fellow Midwesterners, and author Katie Ganshert is well worth feting. Ganshert, who wa...

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How a black detective infiltrated the KKK

Posted on 06/09/2018 at 11:16 AM by Jeffrey Bruner

In 1978, Ron Stallworth was working as a detective in the Colorado Springs Police Department when he came across a class...

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Sherlock Holmes and the case of fan theories

Posted on 06/09/2018 at 09:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The podcast Decoder Ring took on a hot topic this past week: Who gets to determine whether Sherlock Holmes and Watson ar...

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FBI agent-turned-author reflects on ‘messing with the enemy’

Posted on 06/07/2018 at 11:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Former FBI agent's book on fighting terrorism and social media.

NPR’s Fresh Air interviewed a former FBI counterterrorism agent about his new book. Clint Watts’s Messing Wi...

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Author interview: Tom Perrotta's reflections from an empty nest

Posted on 06/03/2018 at 03:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

NPR replayed this interview of author Tom Perrotta recently as we were out running errands, and even just the...

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Author interview: Elgin Baylor on racism and his basketball career

Posted on 06/01/2018 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Basketball legend Elgin Baylor discusses his book Hang Time with NPR's David Greene. Hang Time i...

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