NPR: Books Podcast: Episodes
1) People are getting hooked on wovels, an on-line novel written serially; 2) A collection of quirky essays on China's booming economy; 3) A poet speaks with host Liane Hansen about Civil Rights Poets; 4) A memoir by an author whose child dies in utero.
1) Mystery writer, Mary Higgins Clark, and her daughter, Carol, discuss suspense writing with NPR's Renee Montagne; 2) Writer Melissa Banks says you must read this book; 3) Iranian author, Azar Nafisi, talks about her new memoir
1) A biography on writer George Plimpton; 2) A new biography looks at how one forgotten chef greatly shaped American cuisine; 3) A number of children's books are about Hurricane Katrina; 4) A book looks inside the Astor family.
1) A commentator talks about blending different holiday traditions; 2) Economists put large numbers in perspective; 3) An MIT professor collects her students' essays about a specific object that motivated them to pursue a career in science; 4) The lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein are collected in a new coffee ...
1) Holiday books for children; 2) A novelist comments on Governor Blagojevich's current situation; 3) Books on parenting; 4) A book of essays written by MIT students about their first interest in science
1) Different books to give as gifts this holiday season; 2) An Iranian photojournalist talks about his new book; 3) NPR's Susan Stamberg has advice on which books to give this holiday season; 4) An author speaks about his new book, "Family Planning", set in New Delhi.
1) The publishing world's hard week, with job losses, reorganizations, and nervousness about booksellers' holiday sales; 2) John Milton's 400th birthday this week is being celebrated with exhibits and readings of his "Paradise Lost"; 3) "Loot" by Sharon Waxman investigates the trafficking of ancient ...
1) The attacks in Mumbai recall a plot line in the two-year-old novel "Sacred Games" by Vikram Chandra; 2) Steven Rinella, author of "American Buffalo" describes winning a lottery for a permit, then hunting the wooly animal in Alaska; 3) Author Ann Patchett recommends Henry James' novel "The Ambassadors" ...
1) What it means to become American, according to Joseph O'Neill, author of "Netherland"; 2) "Knucklehead" is the memoir of children's book author Jon Scieszka, who grew up in a house full of brothers in Michigan; 3) A tour with John Cole, the author of "On These Walls: Inscriptions and Quotations ...
1) Junot Diaz, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" discusses what it means to become an American; 2) The art of translation is more than just choosing the right words; 3) A roundup of the year's best cookbooks from Susan Chang; 4) The kitchen theme ...
1) The National Book Awards were awarded in New York City; 2) Former presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, author of "Do the Right Thing" on the future of the Republican party; 3) "Annie Leibovitz At Work" is a new collection of photographs from throughout her star-studded career; 4) Malcolm Gladwell ...
1) In "Wonderland: A Fairytale of the Soviet Monolith" photographer Jason Eskenazy documents the life of Russia after the breakup of the Soviet Union; 2) First-time novelist Salvatore Scibona is nominated for a National Book Award for "The End"; 3) Firoozeh Dumas recommends Three Books that will ...
1) The Miami International Book Fair celebrates its 25th anniversary year; 2) "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" posed a marketing challenge for Knopf - author Stieg Larsson, a Swedish journalist, died just as his trilogy was was becoming popular in Europe; 3) Alan Cheuse reviews Amitav Ghosh's novel ...
1) Michael Crichton, author of science thrillers such as "Jurassic Park" and "The Andromeda Strain" has died; 2) Writer Amitav Ghosh tells of the opium trade in his novel "Sea of Poppies", set in colonial India; 3) Barack Obama's election win has boosted his book sales; 4) The stories of women ...
1) Vampires are showing signs of great restraint in the popular series of "Twilight" books by Stephenie Meyer, and the "Sookie Stackhouse" Southern Vampire Mystery series by Charlaine Harris; 2) Studs Terkel, oral historian, author, and champion of the common man has died at the age of 96; 3) A ...
1) A remembrance of mystery author Tony Hillerman, who set 18 of his novels in Navajo lands, with Native American sleuths; 2) A look at the autobiographical books by the presidential candidates, with Newsweek editor Jon Meacham... Senator Barack Obama; 3) and Senator John McCain; 4) "The Gargoyle" ...
1) Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning novelist Toni Morrison discusses her new novel, set in late 17th Century America, called "A Mercy"; 2) "Deaf Sentence" by author David Lodge takes a somewhat comic look at hearing loss and the aging process; 3) The tale of a novel written in secret: Nathaniel Rich's ...
1) The British Library has just unveiled a treasury of early recordings of writers, including Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Arthur Conan Doyle; 2) Philip Dray's new history of the first African-American members of congress is called "Capitol Men"; 3) Roy Blount, Jr. writes about words, ...
1) Shalom Auslander recommends a collection of letters to and from Groucho Marx in the series "You Must Read This"; 2) Neil Gaiman tries something new with his latest, "The Graveyard Book" - videotaping his readings and posting the entire book on his website; 3) Alan Cheuse reviews psychologist ...
1) Cherie Blair, wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, has written a memoir called "Speaking for Myself: My Life from Liverpool to Downing Street"; 2) "Hip Hop Speaks to Children" is a book and CD project edited by poet Nikki Giovanni, showing the relation of rhythm, words, and music; ...