Remembering Pat Conroy, A Master Who Used His Tortured Life To Tell Stories
The best-selling author of The Prince of Tides died Friday evening at the age of 70. At his death he was concluding work on his latest book, Aquarius.
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'Rodeo' Gets In Touch With The Wild, Both Inside And Out
Adoption is a metaphor for cultural dislocation in Boris Fishman's new novel, which follows an immigrant Jewish couple in New Jersey who adopt a baby from Minnesota — and set out to find his roots.
Author Pat Conroy Dies At 70
The "Prince of Tides" author Pat Conroy, age 70, has died. He had pancreatic cancer. NPR's Scott Simon spoke with Conroy in 2010 about the people who shaped him as a writer, and as a reader.
'Charlie Chan:' An Imaginary Cartoonist Draws A Very Real Homeland
Charlie Chan Hock Chye is one of Singapore's great unsung cartoonists. He's also imaginary — the virtuosic invention of comic artist Sonny Liew, who's created a realistic mix of comics and history.
More Color In Kids' Lit: Your Best Picks
Our story about Marley Dias' #1000blackgirlbooks list got lots of feedback and some really good suggestions for kids' reading lists.
'Prince Of Tides' Author Pat Conroy Dies At 70
The best-selling author was known for novels such as The Great Santini and The Prince Of Tides. He had announced last month that he had pancreatic cancer.
In Richard Price's 'The Whites', Haunted Cops And Cases They Couldn't Close
Price says that in every precinct there's one cop who just can't let go of a case. "They all reminded me of Ahab ... looking for their whales," he says. Originally broadcast Feb. 17, 2015.
America's 'Lead Wars' Go Beyond Flint, Mich.: 'It's Now Really Everywhere'
David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz chronicle America's poisonous relationship with lead in Lead Wars. "We've created a terribly toxic environment in all sorts of ways," Rosner says.
'The Yid' Blends Soviet Fact And Fiction
Paul Goldberg's audacious new novel trades in rumor and anecdote, conjuring a time of anti-Semitism and violence in 1950s Moscow.
Memory Of Potato Famine Burdens 'Immortal Irishman'
Civil War buffs and the Irish-American community have probably heard of Thomas Francis Meagher. Renee Montagne talks to New York Times columnist Timothy Egan about his book The Immortal Irishman.