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Kevin Whitehead is the author of New Dutch Swing, Why Jazz, and Play the Way You Feel.

Kevin is the author of New Dutch Swing, Why Jazz, and Play the Way You Feel.

kevin whitehead is our jazz historian and author of the book Play the Way You Feel, the essential guide to jazz stories on film. roy haynes' centennial is being marked today with a jazz memorial and centennial celebration at st. peter's church in new york city.

Kevin Whitehead is the author of Play the Way You Feel, the essential guide to jazz stories on film, Why Jazz, and New Dutch Swing, which has just been reissued.

Kevin's latest book is Play the Way You Feel, the essential guide to jazz stories on film.

Kevin Whitehead is the author of Play the Way You Feel, the essential guide to jazz stories on film, Why Jazz?, and New Dutch Swing, which has just been reissued.

Kevin Whitehead is the author of the book Play the Way You Feel, the essential guide to jazz stories on film.

Kevin Whitehead is the author of the book Play the Way You Feel, the essential guide to jazz stories on film.

Kevin Whitehead is the author of the books Play the Way You Feel, The Essential Guide to Jazz Stories on Film, Why Jazz and New Dutch Swing.

Kevin Whitehead is the author of the books Play the Way You Feel, The Essential Guide to Jazz Stories on Film, Why Jazz, and New Dutch Swing.

Kevin Whitehead is the author of the books Play the Way You Feel, The Essential Guide to Jazz Stories on Film, Why Jazz? and New Dutch Swing.

Kevin Whitehead is the author of the books Play the Way You Feel, The Essential Guide to Jazz Stories on Film, New Dutch Swing and Why Jazz.

Kevin Whitehead is the author of the book Play the Way You Feel the essential guide to jazz stories on film why jazz and new Dutch swing he reviewed nighttime creatures by jazz pianist Angelica Sanchez.

Kevin Whitehead is the author of the books Play the Way You Feel, The Essential Guide to Jazz Stories on Film, Why Jazz? and New Dutch Swing.

Kevin Whitehead is the author of the books Play the Way You Feel, The Essential Guide to Jazz Stories on Film, Why Jazz, and New Dutch Swing.

Kevin Whitehead is the author of the books Play the Way You Feel, The Essential Guide to Jazz Stories on Film, Why Jazz? and New Dutch Swing.

Kevin Whitehead is the author of the book Play the Way You Feel, the essential guide to jazz stories on film.

Kevin Whitehead is the author of New Dutch Swing, Why Jazz, and Play the Way You Feel.

Kevin Whitehead is the author of New Dutch Swing, Why Jazz, and Play the Way You Feel.

Jazz historian Kevin Whitehead is the author of New Dutch Swing, Why Jazz, and Play the Way You Feel.

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This stunning anthology offers original writing and illustrations, interviews, and photos.

And the audiobook includes 52 years worth of interview excerpts with more than 60 legendary artists.

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Read about the impact of women in music with NPR's new book, How Women Made Music, a revolutionary history from NPR Music.

Read about the impact of women in music with NPR's new book, How Women Made Music, a revolutionary history from NPR Music. This stunning anthology offers original writing and illustrations, interviews, and photos. And the audiobook includes 52 years worth of interview excerpts with more than 60 legendary artists.

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Celebrate the women who shaped music history with NPR's new book, How Women Made Music. From Beyonc to Odetta, Joan Jett to Dolly Parton, this beautiful book is filled with interviews, original writing, illustrations, photos and more. Also available as an audiobook featuring interview excerpts with legendary musicians.

Celebrate the women who shaped music history with NPR's new book, How Women Made Music.

From Beyonce to Odetta, Joan Jett to Dolly Parton, this beautiful book is filled with interviews, original writing, illustrations, photos and more.

Also available as an audiobook featuring interview excerpts with legendary musicians.

Celebrate the women who shaped music history with NPR's new book, How Women Made Music.

Celebrate the women who shaped music history with NPR's new book, How Women Made Music. From Beyonc to Odetta, Joan Jett to Dolly Parton, this beautiful book is filled with interviews, original writing, illustrations, photos and more.

Visit npr.org slash How Women Made Music to pre-order now.

Celebrate the women who shaped music history with NPR's new book, How Women Made Music.

From Beyonce to Odetta, Joan Jett to Dolly Parton, this beautiful book is filled with interviews, original writing, illustrations, photos and more.

Celebrate the women who shaped music history with NPR's new book, How Women Made Music. From Beyonce to Odetta, Joan Jett to Dolly Parton, this beautiful book is filled with interviews, original writing, illustrations, photos and more.

Also available as an audiobook featuring interview excerpts with legendary musicians.

Celebrate the women who shaped music history with NPR's new book, How Women Made Music.

From Beyonce to Odetta, Joan Jett to Dolly Parton, this beautiful book is filled with interviews, original writing, illustrations, photos and more.

Also available as an audiobook featuring interview excerpts with legendary musicians.

Visit npr.org slash howwomenmademusic to pre-order now.

Kevin Whitehead Is the author of New Dutch Swing Why Jazz And Play the Way You Feel

Kevin Whitehead is the author of New Dutch Swing

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Kevin Whitehead is the author of New Dutch Swing, Why Jazz, and Play the Way You Feel.

Kevin is the author of New Dutch Swing, Why Jazz, and Play the Way You Feel.

Kevin Whitehead is the author of Play the Way You Feel, the essential guide to jazz stories on film, Why Jazz, and New Dutch Swing, which has just been reissued.

Kevin Whitehead is the author of Play the Way You Feel, the essential guide to jazz stories on film, Why Jazz?, and New Dutch Swing, which has just been reissued.

And New Dutch Swing, which has just been reissued.

Kevin Whitehead is the author of the books Play The Way You Feel, The Essential Guide to Jazz Stories on Film, Why Jazz, and New Dutch Swing.

Kevin Whitehead is the author of the books Play The Way You Feel, The Essential Guide to Jazz Stories on Film, Why Jazz? and New Dutch Swing.

Kevin Whitehead is the author of the books Play The Way You Feel, The Essential Guide to Jazz Stories on Film, New Dutch Swing and Why Jazz.

Kevin Whitehead is the author of the books Play The Way You Feel, The Essential Guide to Jazz Stories on Film, Why Jazz? and New Dutch Swing.

Kevin Whitehead is the author of the books Play The Way You Feel, The Essential Guide to Jazz Stories on Film, Why Jazz? and New Dutch Swing.

Kevin Whitehead is the author of New Dutch Swing, Why Jazz, and Play the Way You Feel.

Kevin Whitehead is the author of New Dutch Swing, Why Jazz, and Play the Way You Feel.

Jazz historian Kevin Whitehead is the author of New Dutch Swing, Why Jazz, and Play the Way You Feel.

Kevin Whitehead is the author of New Dutch Swing, Why Jazz, and Play the Way You Feel.

Kevin is the author of New Dutch Swing, Why Jazz, and Play the Way You Feel.

Kevin Whitehead is the author of Play the Way You Feel, the essential guide to jazz stories on film, Why Jazz, and New Dutch Swing, which has just been reissued.

Kevin Whitehead is the author of Play the Way You Feel, the essential guide to jazz stories on film, Why Jazz?, and New Dutch Swing, which has just been reissued.

Kevin Whitehead is the author of the books Play The Way You Feel, The Essential Guide to Jazz Stories on Film, Why Jazz, and New Dutch Swing.

Kevin Whitehead is the author of the books Play The Way You Feel, The Essential Guide to Jazz Stories on Film, Why Jazz? and New Dutch Swing.

Kevin Whitehead is the author of the books Play The Way You Feel, The Essential Guide to Jazz Stories on Film, New Dutch Swing and Why Jazz.

Kevin Whitehead is the author of the books Play The Way You Feel, The Essential Guide to Jazz Stories on Film, Why Jazz? and New Dutch Swing.

Kevin Whitehead is the author of the books Play The Way You Feel, The Essential Guide to Jazz Stories on Film, Why Jazz? and New Dutch Swing.

Kevin Whitehead is the author of New Dutch Swing, Why Jazz, and Play the Way You Feel.

Kevin Whitehead is the author of New Dutch Swing, Why Jazz, and Play the Way You Feel.

Jazz historian Kevin Whitehead is the author of New Dutch Swing, Why Jazz, and Play the Way You Feel.

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The process around The Color Purple is very interesting because we had cable TV.

Neither are in league with say Portnoy's Complaint or The Color Purple, but nor are they mental styrofoam.

you being obsessed with The Color Purple ... to kill a mockingbird

so I had to get the book and I read the book ... I would hold it like a treasure

Alice Walker, published in Ms. before she wrote The Color Purple.

Alice Walker's The Color Purple ... the classic Alice Walker masterpiece. ... the book hadn't fully gone

I was thinking about how The Color Purple is such an insular text, meaning like it's a black world.

The Color Purple, which was first a Pulitzer Prizewinning novel written by Alice Walker in 1982, tells the tale of the lifelong struggles of Celie, an African American woman living in the South during the early 1900s, and the sisterhood of three women.

Well, it goes without saying that The Color Purple, it's really considered an American masterpiece, especially for black people. It was a Pulitzer Prize winning book, as we know, a Steven Spielberg film, an iconic musical, and now this film adaptation to the musical.

The Color Purple, which was first a Pulitzer Prize novel written by Alice Walker in 1982, tells the tale of the lifelong struggles of Celie, an AfricanAmerican woman living in the South during the early 1900s, and the sisterhood of three women.

Well, it goes without saying that The Color Purple, it's really considered an American masterpiece, especially for Black people. It was a Pulitzer Prize winning book, as we know, a Steven Spielberg film, an iconic musical, and now this film adaptation to the musical.

The Color Purple was a novel, still is a novel, by Alice Walker that was adapted into a film starring Oprah Winfrey and later into a Broadway musical, and I went back to the source material and read the book to prepare for my role.

The Color Purple was a novel, still is a novel by Alice Walker that was adapted into a film starring Oprah Winfrey and then that was adapted into a Broadway musical starring Cynthia Erivo.

Did you go back and watch any of them and reread the book for the movie?

I first saw the movie in 1985 and I think I've watched it maybe 50 to 100 times in my life and then I saw both versions of the musical... And then when I was offered Mister I went back all the way to the source material and read the book.

I feel like you know when people come and see this experience of The Color Purple they'll see it's a hybrid of sorts but it really is honoring the book in many ways.

I keep coming across these little details, like you being obsessed with the color purple. James Baldwin for colored girls to kill a mockingbird.

This is Fresh Air, I'm Tanya Mosley, and today my guest is filmmaker RaMell Ross. His adaptation of Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Nickel Boys, is nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and for Best Picture.

Reading Colson Whitehead's Nickel Boys, my first thought is, like, what's the world look like then, you know?

Rommel Ross... nominated for an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for the film Nickel Boys, which he also directed. The movie is also nominated for Best Picture.

I want to ask both of you, have either of you seen the new film Nickel Boys, based on the novel by Coltson Whitehead?

Whitehead's 2019 novel, The Nickel Boys, has been adapted into a film of the same name now in theaters.

And that is Colson Whitehead reading from his new book, The Nickel Boys.

I signed 15,000 copies of The Nickel Boys.

His novel, The Nickel Boys, has been adapted into a film now in theaters.

The second Pulitzer was for The Nickel Boys, based on the true story of a state reform school for boys, in which the boys were physically abused and dozens died.

After writing two Pulitzer Prizewinning novels, The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, he started writing crime novels set in Harlem.

The second Pulitzer was for The Nickel Boys based on the true story of a segregated state reform school for boys in which the boys were physically abused and dozens died.

The Nickel Boys, based on the true story of a segregated state reform school for boys, in which the boys were physically abused and dozens died.

After writing two Pulitzer Prizewinning novels, The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, he started writing crime novels set in Harlem.

Malala Yousafzai's new memoir is called Finding My Way.

Her new memoir, Finding My Way, reveals the person beyond the symbol.

This memoir, in a way, in many ways, picks up where your first memoir left off.

My guest today is Malala Yousafzai. We're talking about her new memoir, Finding My Way.

Malala Yousafzai's new memoir is called Finding My Way.

Tomorrow on Fresh Air, Malala Yousafzai, who became the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner at age 17, discusses her new memoir, Finding My Way. It's about her life as a young woman navigating friendship, first love, and self-discovery, while living in the global spotlight.

Her new memoir, Finding My Way, reveals the person beyond the symbol.

Could you read what you wrote about it in the book?

My guest today is Malala Yousafzai. We're talking about her new memoir, Finding My Way.

Malala Yousafzai's new memoir is called Finding My Way our interview was recorded in October.

She became the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner when she was 17 years old. In her new memoir, Finding My Way, she shares the vulnerable story of a young woman navigating friendship, first love, and self-discovery while living in the global spotlight.

Her new memoir, Finding My Way, reveals the person beyond the symbol.

My guest today is Malala Yousafzai. We're talking about her new memoir, Finding My Way.

Her new memoir, Finding My Way, reveals the person beyond the symbol.

She became the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner when she was 17 years old. In her new memoir, Finding My Way, she shares the vulnerable story of a young woman navigating friendship, first love, and selfdiscovery while living in the global spotlight.

Long Bright River is based on the bestselling novel by Liz Moore.

Based on the acclaimed novel by Liz Moore, who cowrote the series with Nicky Toscano, this eightpart story is set in Kensington, a struggling, opioidravaged, bluecollar Philadelphia neighborhood.

Moore's previous book, Long Bright River, was a superb novel about the opioid crisis in Philadelphia.

Moore's previous book, Long Bright River, was a superb novel about the opioid crisis in Philadelphia.

Moore's previous book, Long Bright River, was a superb social novel about the opioid crisis in Philadelphia.

One, Long Bright River, a thriller about a policewoman patrolling a troubled Philadelphia neighborhood where her drug-using sister is a sex worker, was made into an eight-part TV series on Peacock.

One, Long Bright River, a thriller about a policewoman patrolling a troubled Philadelphia neighborhood where her drug-using sister is a sex worker, was made into an eight-part TV series on Peacock.

And so Kensington itself was not receiving the national attention that it now receives.

Long Bright River and The God of the Woods are my quote unquote breakthrough novels in the sense that they've reached a larger audience than I ever had before but the only thing that differentiates them in my mind from my first novels are that one has they both each one contains a missing person at the start and therefore they are perceived as or categorized as thrillers or literary mysteries.

Let's talk about Longbright River. This is set in this Philadelphia neighborhood, Kensington, which has gotten some national attention. It's become a regional center for drug users just because it was a place where people learned they could score drugs.

The book was made into a series on Peacock, which you were cocreator, cowriter, executive producer for. I wasn't the showrunner, but I did have a lot of input and felt my input was respected.

She has a new memoir called Bread of Angels.

These days, Patti Smith is still touring. She has a substack newsletter to chronicle her dreamiest thoughts and has a new memoir called Bread of Angels.

She also has a new memoir titled Bread of Angels coming up.

Bread of Angels is both a sequel and a prequel to Just Kids.

For instance, in Bread of Angels, Smith shares an update about the daughter she placed for adoption when she was 20, and reveals a mystery concerning her own paternity.

Patty Smith's latest memoir, Bread of Angels, expands upon her 2010 memoir that's since become a classic. Smith delves into more intimate material here, like the secret of her paternity, her sense of her own sexuality, and her 14year marriage to the late musician Fred Sonic Smith.

Patti Smith's latest memoir Bread of Angels expands upon her 2010 memoir that's since become a classic, delving into more intimate material like the secret of her paternity, her sense of her own sexuality and her 14year marriage to the late musician Fred Sonic Smith.

Her latest memoir, Bread of Angels, expands upon her 2010 memoir that's since become a classic. Smith delves into more intimate material here, like the secret of her paternity, her sense of her own sexuality, and her 14year marriage to the late musician Fred Sonic Smith.

Patti Smith's memoir Bread of Angels expands upon her 2010 memoir that's since become a classic, delving into the secret of her paternity, her sense of her own sexuality and her 14 year marriage to the late musician Fred Sonic Smith.

Moby Dick, Tom Huckleberry Finn, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde.

I would just like I put in the beginning of Moby Dick, which is my favorite novel, and hit the button just to see what would happen.

All the other major contenders, and I'm thinking of books like Huckleberry Finn, Moby Dick, Beloved, foreground the issue of race.

In literature, you have it, for example, the white whale, Moby Dick, and the hunt for it.

there is a big metaphor like in literature you have it, for example, the white whale, Moby Dick, and the hunt for it or Don Quixote attacking the windmills with his lance.

He read them all. And that's where I read the Encyclopedia of Anatomy and Health. And that's where I read all my classics, you know, Moby Dick, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde.

Zadie Smith, her critically acclaimed bestselling first novel, White Teeth, was published when she was 25 in the year 2000. Now she's 50 and is looking at life as a middleaged woman and is thinking about the current generation gaps, including between millennials and Gen Xers.

Zadie Smith, her critically acclaimed best-selling first novel, White Teeth, was published when she was 25 in the year 2000. Now she's 50 and is looking at life as a middle-aged woman and is thinking about the current generation gaps, including between millennials and Gen Xers.

including the novels White Teeth and On Beauty. Her new book, The Fraud, is a historical novel...

Smith became a critically acclaimed, bestselling author in her midtwenties with the publication of her novel White Teeth.

She became a critically acclaimed bestselling author in her midtwenties with the publication of her novel White Teeth.

My guest Zadie Smith is probably tired of hearing this next sentence, but here goes. She published her first novel, White Teeth, in the year 2000 when she was 25. It was a critical success and an international bestseller.

She published her first novel, White Teeth, in the year 2000 when she was 25.

His 2016 novel, The Underground Railroad, was adapted into an Amazon TV series directed by Barry Jenkins, who directed Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk.

Your last book, The Underground Railroad, which won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, was a look at slavery.

The first Pulitzer was for The Underground Railroad, an allegory about race in America, told through the stories of an escaped slave and a slave catcher.

After writing two Pulitzer Prize-winning novels, The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, he started writing crime novels set in Harlem.

The first Pulitzer was for The Underground Railroad, an allegory about race in America told through the stories of an escaped slave and a slave catcher.

The Underground Railroad, an allegory about race in America told through the stories of an escaped slave and a slave catcher.

After writing two Pulitzer Prizewinning novels, The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, he started writing crime novels set in Harlem.

Liz Moore's The God of the Woods is something stranger and unforgettable, a gothicexcess about two children from the wealthy Van Laar family disappearing from a camp in the Adirondacks.

Liz Moore's The God of the Woods has a touch of gothic excess about Moore's story, beginning with the premise that not one, but two children from the wealthy Van Laar family disappear from a camp in the Adirondacks some 14 years apart. Moore's previous book, Long Bright River, was a superb novel about the opioid crisis in Philadelphia.

Liz Moore's extraordinary new literary suspense novel called The God of the Woods reminds me of Donna Tartt's 1992 debut, The Secret History. Both are thick, intricate novels featuring young people isolated in enclosed worlds ... The God of the Woods is something weirder and stranger and unforgettable.

Our book critic Maureen Corrigan said when she read it, quote, I was so thoroughly submerged in a rich fictional world that for hours I barely came up for air.

Liz Moore's latest novel, The God of the Woods, is now available in paperback.

Our book critic Maureen Corrigan said when she read it, quote, I was so thoroughly submerged in a rich fictional world that for hours I barely came up for air.

Liz Moore's latest bestseller, The God of the Woods, is set in a remote children's camp in the Adirondacks, where a young camper goes mysteriously missing.

The original title of the novel was not The God of the Woods. I called it self-reliance for the entire time that I was writing it, up to about a year before its publication when everybody at Riverhead Books simultaneously broke the news to me that they hated the title self-reliance, which I don't blame them for.

The word Adirondack actually means 'The Bark Eaters,' which was a title she entertained.

Liz Moore's latest novel, The God of the Woods, is now available in paperback.

I was so thoroughly submerged in a rich fictional world that for hours I barely came up for air.

The God of the Woods centers on one of these great camps. It's fictional, and the family in question is fictional. And just down the hill from the great camp is a summer camp from which their own 13yearold daughter goes missing.

Origin is based on Wilkerson's book Cast, where she explores the concept of cast systems, drawing parallels to India, Nazi Germany and the United States.

The film is inspired by Isabel Wilkerson's book Caste, The Origins of Our Discontents.

When my guest Ava DuVernay first read Isabel Wilkerson's book, Caste, The Origins of Our Discontents, she was so stunned she reread it two more times. The bestselling book draws a line between India's Caste system, the hierarchies of Nazi Germany, and the historic subjugation of Black people in the United States.

The book is academic in nature, 496 pages filled with facts and historical notes.

I think I was just trying to survive the pandemic, you know. I think of, it came out, the book, about two months after the murder of George Floyd... the book had sat on my nightstand for a while and you know, one of those pandemic days you pick it up and you start to explore and it drew me in but I didn't really understand it. It's a dense book.

And when I finally got through it, I wasn't satisfied with my retention of the theory, my real integration of it into my understanding. I felt that I had a surface understanding and so I read it again just to satisfy myself.

the film is inspired by Isabel Wilkerson's book Caste, The Origins of Our Discontents.

When my guest Ava DuVernay first read Isabel Wilkerson's book, Caste, The Origins of Our Discontents, she was so stunned she re-read it two more times.

The bestselling book draws a line between India's Caste system, the hierarchies of Nazi Germany, and the historic subjugation of black people in the United States.

I think I was just trying to survive the pandemic... the book had sat on my nightstand for a while and I picked it up and it drew me in but I didn't really understand it.

It's a dense book, and when I finally got through it, I wasn't satisfied with my retention of the theory, my real integration of it into my understanding.

When my guest Ava DuVernay first read Isabelle Wilkerson's book Caste, The Origins of Our Discontents, she was so stunned she reread it two more times.

The bestselling book draws a line between India's Caste system, the hierarchies of Nazi Germany, and the historic subjugation of black people in the United States. The book is academic in nature, 496 pages filled with facts and historical notes.

Okay, so I want to put myself in the place where you were when you read Caste three times.

One of those pandemic days you pick it up and you start to explore and it drew me in, but I didn't really understand it. It's a dense book.

I think that's one of the reasons why I was attracted to the book.

the book Cast, The Origins of Our Discontents by Pulitzer Prizewinning author Isabel Wilkerson

It's shaping up to be quite a year for Percival Everett; his 2001 novel Erasure was adapted into the acclaimed film American Fiction and his latest novel James has just come out.

The film is adapted and directed by Court Jefferson and is based on the novel Erasure by Percival Everett.

Copies of Percival Everett's Erasure lying around the set.

The film is adapted and directed by Kurt Jefferson and is based on the novel Erasure by Percival Everett.

The crew, you would see copies of Percival Everett's Erasure lying around the set. They were reading the book, wanting to understand more about this story that we were telling.

The film is based on Percival Everett's 2001 book Erasure; I devoured it, reading it over and over, and it felt like a book written specifically for me, with themes that paralleled my own life.

In court, this film is based on Percival Everett's 2001 book, Erasure.

His new book is called Knife.

Rushdie's new memoir is called Knife.

These are some of the questions Rushdie asked himself in his new memoir, Knife, Meditations After an Attempted Murder.

But his memoir, Knife, is a book he says he had to write before he could write anything else.

I'm grateful to say that Solomon Rushdie is my guest because I love his new memoir, and I'm grateful that he's alive.

His new book is Knife.

These are some of the questions Rushdie asked himself in his new memoir Knife, Meditations After an Attempted Murder.

But his memoir Knife is a book he says he had to write before he could write anything else.

And I remember just like a pinata and let him just slash away.

And so it feels like it's back in my own authorial space and I feel more in charge of it you know and so it feels good. Instead of being a victim you're controlling the story.

Rushdie's new book is called Knife.

I interviewed your husband Salman Rushdie after his memoir Knife was published. And Knife is about the Knife attack on him when he was being interviewed at the Chautauqua Festival.

I read different parts of the memoir as Salman was writing it. Salman and I had a discussion about the writing in Knife about the wedding day.

I interviewed your husband, Salman Rushdie, after his memoir Knife was published. And Knife is about the Knife attack on him when he was being interviewed at the Chautauqua Festival in western upstate New York.

And he describes it as a day of like beautiful weather, a day of joy. He doesn't mention the death of your friend Aisha and the crisis mode that you were in.

And I think in the arc of Knife, having suddenly a detour to describe a very traumatizing wedding day would have changed the lens for the arc of Knife and what Knife was focusing on.

Hill is also the author of Your Face Belongs to Us, A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It, which investigates the rise of facial recognition tech and its disturbing implications for civil liberties.

Hill is also the author of Your Face Belongs to Us, a secretive startup's quest to end privacy as we know it, which investigates the rise of facial recognition tech and its disturbing implications for civil liberties.

author of Your Face Belongs to Us.

Now she has a new book called Your Face Belongs to Us, a secretive startup's quest to end privacy as we know it.

Kashmir Hill, thank you so much for your reporting in your new book.

Now she has a new book called Your Face Belongs to Us, a secretive startup's quest to end privacy as we know it.

My guest is Kashmir Hill, a tech reporter for The New York Times and author of the new book Your Face Belongs to Us.

Her new book is called Your Face Belongs to Us, a secretive startup's quest to end privacy as we know it.

I wrote this book right now because we need to figure out what we want or this will become very widespread.

Kashmir Hill is a tech reporter for The New York Times and author of the new book, Your Face Belongs to Us.

My guest will be New York Times tech reporter Kashmir Hill, author of Your Face Belongs to Us.

Patrick Ryan's Buckeye is a more straightforward historical novel, set, as its title indicates, in Ohio. Stretching from pre-World War II to the close of the 20th century, the story focuses on two married couples.

Patrick Ryan's Buckeye is a more straightforward historical novel set as its title indicates in Ohio stretching from preWorld Juve to the close of the 20th century.

Patrick Ryan's Buckeye is a more straightforward historical novel, set, as its title indicates, in Ohio. Stretching from preWorld WarII to the close of the 20th century, the story focuses on two married couples.

Patrick Ryan's Buckeye is a more straightforward historical novel set as its title indicates in Ohio stretching from pre-World Juve to the close of the 20th century the story focuses on two married couples.

The first big novel of the fall publishing season is out and our book critic Maureen Corrigan is on it -- here's her review of Buckeye by Patrick Ryan.

I began reading Buckeye backwards, my head moving from right to left by page nine; the title indicates Buckeye is ... the story which focuses on two married couples stretches from preWorldII to the close of the 20thcentury, following Margaret Salt and Felix, a closeted gay man, and later Cal Jenkins and Becky.

Ryan's previous books include the standout 2016 shortstory collection The Dream Life of Astronauts as well as three YA novels.

Cal was born with one leg two inches shorter than the other, keeping him out of WorldII and into Margaret's path; Becky discovers in childhood she can communicate with the dead, a gift that becomes a grim comfort during the Vietnam War.

If there's a flaw in this overwhelming novel it may be that the characters are a bit too uniformly eloquent and selfaware, but the epiphanies are expressed as beautifully as the prose itself.

It was published last summer and came out in paperback this week.

Crook Manifesto brings back the main character, Ray Carney, the owner of a furniture store on 125th Street in Harlem, who takes pride in upgrading his customers' living rooms with comfortable quality sofas and recliners.

In the opening of Crook Manifesto, he's been retired from crime for four years, but when his daughter insists she needs tickets to the Jackson 5 concert, he goes to a corrupt white cop to get them, which forces him to fence jewels.

Crook Manifesto is the second in Whitehead's projected trilogy of Harlem novels; the first, Harlem Shuffle, was set in the 60s and the third will be set in the 80s.

His latest novel Crook Manifesto has just been published in paperback.

His most recent, Crook Manifesto, is an entertaining read about crime at every level, from smalltime crooks to revolutionaries, cops, politicians, and Harlem's elite. It's now out in paperback.

His new one, Crook Manifesto, is an entertaining read about crime at every level, from small-time crooks to revolutionaries, cops, politicians, and Harlem's elite.

The new novel, Crook Manifesto, takes place from 1971 to 76.

That's Colson Whitehead reading from his new novel Crook Manifesto.

His new book Crook Manifesto is a crime novel set in Harlem in the 70s. It's a sequel to his novel Harlem Shuffle, which was set in the 60s.

Colson Whitehead's new novel is Crook Manifesto.

The new novel, Crook Manifesto, takes place from 1971 to 76.

That's Colson Whitehead reading from his new novel, Crook Manifesto.

His new one, Crook Manifesto, is an entertaining read about crime at every level, from smalltime crooks to revolutionaries, cops, politicians, and Harlem's elite.