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She earned critical acclaim a few years ago at just 19 for her New York Times best-selling debut novel, Nightcrawling.

She was named Oakland, California's Youth Poet Laureate. Her 2024 poetry collection, Woke Up No Light, wrestles with girlhood, reparations, and desire. She also co-wrote and starred in the documentary short, When I Write It, which was featured in the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival. And her best-selling debut, Nightcrawling, was inspired by real cases of young women in Oakland who were assaulted and exploited by police.

When I hear about someone working at that level it shows kind of a deep love for the craft but it also suggests that you're creating first and foremost for yourself. Is that true for you? ... I didn't show my work to really anyone and so it was entirely for me and that was I think a really sacred experience ... I felt like an entirely different person ... it was almost like having my 17 year old diary published and memorialized for the rest of my life.

And her bestselling debut, Night Crawling, was inspired by real cases of young women in Oakland who were assaulted and exploited by police.

Because in Night Crawling, which was your bestselling debut novel, it's about a young woman named Kiara who was scraping by in East Oakland and eventually becomes exploited by the very people that's supposed to protect her, the police.

She earned critical acclaim a few years ago at 19 for her New York Times bestselling debut novel, Night Crawling. Now she's back with a new novel that follows three young women as they navigate what it means to be a mother today when reproductive rights are being rolled back across the country.

I would make egg salad with my own mayonnaise that I had learned how to make from the New York Times cookbook and serve.

when you read Armstrong's second autobiography, Satchel, My Life in New Orleans, it ends with him leaving New Orleans and joining King Oliver.

Tamara Yahia has written a new memoir called Cry For Me Argentina, My Life as a Failed Child Star.

I spoke to my dad after he read my book, and his comment on it was, I thought all of the moves that we did and all of the change, he said, I thought it was fun for you.

It wasn't until the past couple of years... I wrote this book. So it was a combination of those two things.

If you're just joining us, my guest is Tamara Yahia. Her new memoir is called Cry For Me Argentina, My Life as a Failed Child Star.

If you're just joining us, my guest is Tamara Yahia. Her new memoir is called Cry For Me Argentina, My Life as a Failed Child Star.

Moyers on America, a journalist and his times.

You write about this a little bit in your new book, Moyers on America.

Seller has written a new memoir called Theater Kid that's a fascinating look into his own life and into different parts of the theater world.

He has a new memoir called Theater Kid.

Jeffrey Sellers' new memoir is called Theater Kid.

The spell of this smart, socially pointed suspense novel lingers long after the wheel's stash of cash and one of its members are no more. The presence of the uncanny is even more potent in Dwyer Murphy's new novel, The House on Buzzard's Bay. Gothic chill wafts like ocean mist throughout this tale of college friends reuniting at an old house one of them has inherited.

Laura Lipman's latest novel resurrects a character from her beloved, Baltimorebased Tess Monaghan series. Murder Takes a Vacation stars Tess's former assistant, Muriel Blossom, the widowed Mrs. Blossom, who has won the lottery and is treating herself to a river cruise, starting in Paris. When the handsome man she flirted with on the plane is found dead, Mrs. Blossom's vacation literally becomes a getaway as she tries to dodge both the police and the evildoers.

The presence of the uncanny is even more potent in Dwyer Murphy's new novel, The House on Buzzard's Bay. Gothic chill wafts like ocean mist throughout this tale of college friends reuniting at an old house one of them has inherited, built by a band of 19thcentury spiritualists, and the friends are plagued by an uneasy sense that those spiritualists may not have vacated the premises.

It would be easy to underestimate Death Takes a Vacation, to assume it's just a Miss Marpletype romp. Laura Lipman's latest novel resurrects a character from her beloved Tess Monaghan series; Death Takes a Vacation stars Tess's former assistant Muriel Blossom, who wins the lottery and embarks on a river cruise that turns into a deadly getaway.

There are books that we read that we both found very moving. Books on dying and death and on facing death. Especially a book called The Five Invitations by an American Buddhist monk, Frank Ostoweski.

He ran a hospice, a Zen Buddhist hospice in San Francisco at the height of the AIDS epidemic. He writes so movingly about how these people faced the awful ordeal of dying. I recommend it to anybody who's got a friend with a serious illness. It really changed our lives.

Her latest book, Make It Ours, Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Abloh, is both a vivid portrait of the late designer and an examination of the world that shaped him.

Her new book is Make It Ours, Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Abloh.

Her new book is Make It Ours, Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Abloh, and her first book, The Battle of Versailles, was an account of the legendary 1973 fashion show that altered the global hierarchy of style.

Her previous book, The Battle of Versailles, tells the story of a groundbreaking 1973 faceoff between American and French designers held at the Palace of Versailles.

Her first book, The Battle of Versailles, was an account of the legendary 1973 fashion show that altered the global hierarchy of style.

Pulitzer Prize winning fashion critic Robin Gavon joins us to discuss her new book Make It Ours: Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Abloh who traces the late designer's unconventional path to luxury fashion, how he challenged tradition and opened onceclosed doors, and why she believes he may be one of the last of his kind.

He's still kind of living in the ideological experiment of Ayatollah Khomeini, a treatise he wrote in 1970 called Islamic Government.

John Powers reviewed Endling, the virtuosic debut novel by Maria Reva, a Canadian writer who was born in Ukraine. Starting out as a straightforward story about a Ukrainian biologist, this witty, shapeshifting book turns into something trickier and more interesting.

Endling takes on bleak subjects, environmental ruin, the business in Brides, the war in Ukraine, and dresses them up in playful irony. Its heroine, Yeva, is a rogue ecologist who lives in a mobile lab and spends her time collecting and housing snails facing extinction.

Endling leaves you asking one painful question. When creatures or nations are fighting for their very existence, shouldn't we try to help them?

The memoir is titled How to Lose Your Mother.

Molly Jong Fast's memoir is titled How to Lose Your Mother.

he drew upon that time of life for his 1982 book, A Boy's Own Story. It became an international bestseller and the first of a trilogy of semiautobiographical novels.

we're remembering writer Edmund White who chronicled gay life and culture... he wrote over 30 books including the semiautobiographical trilogy that began with his book A Boy's Own Story.