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The Writers' Block | Jan 01, 2009
My Other Family
J. M. Tyree reads "My Other Family," a story of child abandonment and revenge that takes place in a Wal-Mart. By J. M. Tyree
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The Writers' Block | Dec 17, 2008
The Revisionist
Miranda Mellis reads a passage from The Revisionist about a civil scientist hired to 'revise' the facts of a crumbling society. By Miranda Mellis
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The Writers' Block | Dec 09, 2008
Songs for the Missing
Stewart O'Nan reads a passage from Songs for the Missing, the story of a young girl's disappearance and its effect on those left behind. By Stewart O'Nan
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Book Review | Dec 08, 2008
Sarah Vowell: The Wordy Shipmates
During the last few weeks, I often found myself snugly ensconced on the sofa with The Wordy Shipmates and a cup of tea, reading about yet another doctrinal squabble and wondering, "Why exactly am I reading this?" By Heather Smith
Book Review | Dec 07, 2008
San Francisco Sci-Fi Round-up
A friend recently reminded me that in theory science fiction sales are supposed to skyrocket during times of political malaise or frustration. While this may be the stuff of legend, I chose to celebrate election month by checking in with the staff at Borderlands, a genre fiction bookstore in the Mission, to find out what sci-fi books are the Bay Area's most popular. By Danielle Sommer
NPR Topics: Authors
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A Childhood Tragedy, Seen From The 'Periphery'
Fate is the protagonist in Patricia Ferguson's masterful Peripheral Vision, which examines the effects one unhappy accident has on a constellation of characters.
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Novel Regards Slave Trade In Reverse
In British writer Bernardine Evaristo's new novel, Blonde Roots, African slave traders raid Europe. Evaristo wields language and messes with history and geography with the gusto of someone having a great time with a great subject.
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Temple Grandin On 'The Best Life For Animals'
In her new book, Animals Make Us Human, Temple Grandin examines common notions of animal happiness and concludes that dogs, cats, horses, cows and zoo animals — among other creatures — possess an emotional system akin to that of humans.
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Civil Rights Poets Wrote Prologue For Change
Langston Hughes and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper are prominent African-American poets who wrote about civil rights and whose work still resonates today. Host Liane Hansen speaks with poet E. Ethelbert Miller about Harper's and Hughes' work and what it means in this time of change in America.