Audio Nov 20, 2014 Nathaniel Philbrick In a slim, lucid, and compulsively readable book, Nathaniel Philbrick makes an enthusiastic case for taking a look at Melville’s classic, "Moby-Dick."
Audio Nov 06, 2014 Fred Foote The neurologist/holistic practioneer knows first-hand the healing power of the arts for veterans.
Audio Oct 30, 2014 Max Brooks The author of "World War Z" really isn’t kidding when it comes to zombies.
Audio Oct 23, 2014 Jesmyn Ward Attempting to understand the links in the untimely deaths of her brother and four friends in her memoir "Men We Reaped."
Audio Aug 21, 2014 Jonathan Tucker The DC Youth Slam Team is an award-winning internationally acclaimed poetry group. Listen to their poems and find out how it all comes together.
Audio Aug 14, 2014 Elizabeth McCracken NEA Literature Fellow on the differences in writing novels, short stories, and tweets.
Audio Jul 10, 2014 Julie Otsuka Her first novel, "When the Emperor Was Divine," explores her family’s history in the Japanese-American internment camps during World War II.
Audio May 29, 2014 Dinaw Mengestu The author discusses the NEA Big Read selection, The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears, his novel about an Ethiopian exile in a gentrifying Washington, DC neighborhood.
Audio Apr 17, 2014 David Mura David Mura uses his considerable talents as a poet, novelist, memoirist and performer to explore what it means to be Japanese-American.
Audio Apr 11, 2014 Shailja Patel With a trunk full of her mother’s saris, Kenyan author and performer Shaija Patel reclaims a lost history.
Audio Feb 20, 2014 Pratibha Parmar Filmmaker Pratibha Parmar discusses her documentary "Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth" about the iconic American writer.
Audio Feb 06, 2014 Tope Folarin He's the first writer born outside of Africa to win the Caine Prize with his short story set in Texas in an evangelical Nigerian church.