Books

Books
Arts

'Ship Beyond Time' Sails Through The Centuries

10:00am April 01, 2017

by Caitlyn Paxson

Heidi Heilig's duology, The Girl From Everywhere and the new The Ship Beyond Time, follows a girl who travels between worlds and times on her father's tall ship, trying to save her mother's life.

Books

Stories Of Parents And Children In 'What It Means When A Man Falls From The Sky'

8:04am April 01, 2017

Writer Lesley Nneka Arimah tells Scott Simon about her short story collection, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky, which imagines a world overtaken by the consequences of global warming.

Abbad Yahya, a 28-year-old Palestinian novelist, is in exile after the Palestinian Authority banned his latest book, Crime in Ramallah, calling it indecent.

Facing Death Threats And A Ban On His Novel, A Palestinian Author Flees

8:04am April 01, 2017

by Joanna Kakissis

"I always thought there was much space to write, to think, in Ramallah, especially," says novelist Abbad Yahya. "I feel that this space has now disappeared." He's now in hiding, fearing arrest.

Queue Listen Now

Books
Arts

In 'Our Short History,' A Dying Single Mom Pens A Letter To Her Son

8:04am April 01, 2017

by Scott Simon

Lauren Grodstein's new novel follows a political consultant who's determined to use what time she has left to share as much as she can with her 6-year-old son, including the identity of his father.

Books
Arts

'Luna: Wolf Moon' Is A Howling Good Read

7:00am April 01, 2017

by Jason Sheehan

No one builds worlds like Ian McDonald. In Luna: Wolf Moon, he gives us a lunar colony ruled by five brutal, powerful dynasties, orbiting an Earth wracked by scarcity wars and political squabbling.

Purple, Prose: The new book Nabokov's Favorite Word is Mauve subjects thousands of books to statistical analysis.

Books
Arts

'Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve' Crunches The (Literary) Numbers

5:25pm March 31, 2017

by Glen Weldon

In his new book, statistician Ben Blatt loads thousands of books, new and old, into a vast database and uncovers intriguing patterns in how our favorite authors write.

Queue Listen Now

During World War II, Even Filmmakers Reported For Duty

3:04pm March 31, 2017

Mark Harris says the military worked with Hollywood directors to create movies about the war. His book, Five Came Back, is the basis for a new Netflix docu-series. Originally broadcast March 3, 2014.

Queue Listen Now

Books
Arts

Incendiary 'Report' Exposes Business-Suited Torturers

11:00am March 31, 2017

by Etelka Lehoczky

Ernie Colón and Sid Jacobson, who previously adapted the 9/11 Commission Report as a graphic novel, set their sights on the Senate's 2014 report on the CIA's use of enhanced interrogation techniques.

Jerry Miller says he always held out hope for exoneration. "I made a logical decision to do positive things and to think positive," he says.

An Exoneree Shares His Story Of Wrongful Conviction In 'Anatomy Of Innocence'

10:05pm March 30, 2017

by Ari Shapiro

Jerry Miller spent more than 25 years behind bars for crimes he didn't commit. His story is part of a new collection that pairs exonerees with mystery/thriller writers.

Queue Listen Now

#ThanksForTyping began a conversation on the uncredited female labor in academia.

#ThanksForTyping Spotlights Unnamed Women In Literary Acknowledgments

3:33pm March 30, 2017

by Cecilia Mazanec

A professor shared book acknowledgment pages, where men thanked their wives for typing their manuscripts. #ThanksForTyping soon sparked a conversation on women and their uncredited roles in academia.