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Megan A. Volpert reads from her latest poetry collection, The Desense of Nonfense . Listen to the podcast .

The recent changes that technology has made to books, reading, and the way we relate to each other are unprecedented and transformational. T...

Simon Winchester, master raconteur, tells a series of gripping and little-known tales of the Atlantic, the ocean he calls "the inland s...

Tim Wu, policy advocate, expert on copyright and communications , and creator of the phrase "net neutrality", talks about his boo...

Rebecca M. Jordan-Young , an expert in the biological components of sex, gender, and sexuality discusses her new book, Brain Storm: The Fla...

What was the best book you read this year? We open the phone lines to ask listeners about their recent and all-time favorites. Download the ...

Scott Simon, NPR's award-winning host of Weekend Edition, speaks about his book Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoptio...

One of the great storytellers of our time, Salman Rusdie, talks about his new book, Luka and the Fire of Life. This novel is a follow up to ...

Lara Santoro, a veteran journalist, discusses her first novel, Mercy, a tragic and powerful story of what it is like to die of AIDS in Afric...

Journalist and historian Nick Bunker steps into a long-past world with his book, Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their...

Carolyn Buttram, Vanessa Lowry, and Robin Kirby, authors of the online book, 30 Days of Gratitude, explain how increasing gratitude can disp...

Award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates discusses her latest work, Sourland. Oates's utterly fearless, disquieting, and imaginative writi...

John Biewen, author of Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sound, joins public radio favorites Ira Glass, Jay Allison, and the Kitchen Si...

Yale Law School professor Kenji Yoshino explores the pressure in American society to hide our authentic selves. In discussing issues from bo...

Science writer and founder the Knight Science Journalism Fellowships at MIT, Victor McElheny, for a look into the workings of the Human Geno...

Eli Kintisch and Bethanne Patrick discuss Kintisch's new book, Hack the Planet: Science's Best Hope - or Worst Nightmare - for Avert...