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How author Dionne Ford found healing in the story of her enslaved ancestors
NPR's Andrew Limbong talks with Dionne Ford about her new book, Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing. In it, Ford grapples with an old family photograph sh…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Musician Questlove and crime writer S.A. Cosby on their new children's book
In the new children's book The Rhythm of Time from crime writer S.A. Cosby and musician Questlove, time is like a song. That's what they told NPR's Ayesha Roscoe when they talked about their book, wh…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Mary Louise Kelly on her memoir 'It. Goes. So. Fast. The Year of No Do-Overs'
In her new memoir, All Things Considered co-host Mary Louise Kelly talks about the time she got a call from her son's school nurse while she was boarding a Black Hawk helicopter in Baghdad. Kelly joi…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Two novels offer new perspectives on the women of Greek mythology
Today's episode starts with a familiar feeling – the way your heart drops when a book character that you love doesn't get the outcome you wanted for them. But the authors we hear from both took that …
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
'Redaction' examines criminal justice via portraits, poems written from legal papers
Reginald Dwayne Betts and Titus Kaphar knew they were meant to work together when they first met. In 2019, they exhibited a project at MoMA PS1 that explored criminal justice through redacted court d…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
'The Queen of Dirt Island' captures the bond between women in an Irish family
Donal Ryan's new novel, The Queen of Dirt Island, centers its women characters. He tells NPR's Mary Louise Kelly that making the men peripheral wasn't his goal – "it just kind of happened." In today'…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
How Indian migrant workers escaped human trafficking in Mississippi
Today's episode is a true story that reads like a novel. In 2006, author and labor organizer Saket Soni received a call from an Indian migrant worker. He was one of hundreds of men hired by Signal In…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
NPR's Ari Shapiro looks back on reporting, singing and touring in new memoir
Ari Shapiro's voice might be familiar to listeners for a number of reasons. He's one of the hosts of All Things Considered; he also sings and tours with the band Pink Martini, sometimes in places wit…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Two nonfiction books examine grief and its impact on memory
Today's episode covers two very different stories involving personal loss and what comes after. First, author Laura Braitman tells NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer about her memoir, What Looks Like Bravery, and …
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
'Decent People' is a murder mystery grappling with race in the segregated South
In a small North Carolina town in 1976, three siblings are shot to death. That's the mystery at the center of De'Shawn Charles Winslow's new book, Decent People – and it's one the segregated town's w…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago