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Tomorrow on Fresh Air, our guest will be journalist Gardner Harris, author of a new book investigating Johnson & Johnson called No More Tears.

My guest Chris Whipple explores these questions ... in his new book, Uncharted, How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History.

If you're just joining us, my guest is Chris Whipple, author of the new book Uncharted How Trump beat Biden Harris and the Odds in the wildest campaign in history.

We'll be right back after a short break. I'm Terry Gross, and this is Fresh Air. On the latest bonus episode ... my guest is Chris Whipple, author of the new book Uncharted How Trump beat Biden Harris and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History.

He's also the author of The Spymasters, How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future.

Irene Corrigan is the author of a book about Gatsby called So We Read On, How the Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures.

That's the subtitle of the new book, Uncharted, by tomorrow's guest, Chris Whipple.

Her latest memoir, Free, My Search for Meaning, goes beyond the events of her trial and imprisonment and explores the realities of reintegrating into society and rebuilding a life.

Amanda Knox's new memoir is Free, My Search for Meaning.

Kanstrom's latest book, The New Deportation Delirium, examines the sprawling system of deportation in our country since 911.

Something I was thinking about in reading your book, The New Deportation Delirium, you really get into some facts that give us greater context.

You say in your book that we will look back and see this whole deportation tactic as a mistake, that it was way too harsh.

He's the author of several books, including The Women, White Girls, and My Pin-Up, a genrebending memoir essay that examines the music, persona, and cultural impact of Prince.

He's the author of several books, including The Women, White Girls, and My Pin-Up, a genrebending memoir essay that examines the music, persona, and cultural impact of Prince.

I'd like for you to read an excerpt from your collection of essays that was also included in your collection of essays, White Girls, which came out in 2013.

He's the author of several books, including The Women, White Girls, and My Pinup, a genrebending memoir essay that examines the music, persona, and cultural impact of Prince.

His new memoir called Shattered begins in 2020 after a fall that injured his spinal cord, leaving him unable to move his arms or legs.

Hennif Qureshi's new memoir is called Shattered.

His new book is Red Scare, Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America.

The new film, The Friend, starring Naomi Watts and Bill Murray, is based on the novel of the same name by Sigrid Nunez. Her book won a 2018 National Book Award for fiction.

The novel The Friend is filled with reflections about the line between appropriate and inappropriate relations between students and teachers, what it's like to mourn a friend who left no note to explain his suicide, the bond that can develop between a dog and a person, and how being a writer has changed in the era of social media.

Sigrid Nunez, welcome to Fresh Air. I want to start with a reading from your novel, and this is from very early on, when the main character has recently learned that her friend has committed suicide and is reflecting on, like, why.

The story in The Friend, the narrator is a woman whose mentor from college who was close to her age became a dear friend and he has just committed suicide. She's left grieving and wondering why. And she also inherits his dog.

Sigrid Nunez, speaking with Terry Gross in 2019. Her novel, The Friend, won the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction and has been adapted into a new film.

Carney and Broadwater's new book is Madhouse, How Donald Trump, MAGA Mean Girls, a former used car salesman, a Florida Nepo baby, and a man with rats in his walls broke Congress.

It's called Madhouse. How Donald Trump, MAGA Mean Girls, a former used car salesman, a Florida Nepo baby, and a man with rats in his walls broke Congress.

Their new book about the last Congress is titled Madhouse. We'll talk more after this short break.

Mistal's new book, Bad Law, 10 Popular Laws That Are Ruining America, mixes humor with deep analysis to argue that our laws on immigration, religious freedom, abortion, and voting rights are actually making life worse than better.

Ellie Mistal's new book is Bad Law, Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America.

And you are saying that these laws aren't basically imperfect like the other types of laws that you mentioned. You're arguing that their very function is to harm.

Ellie Mistal is a legal analyst and justice correspondent for The Nation and the legal editor of the More Perfect podcast on the Supreme Court for Radiolab. He's also an Alfred Knobler Fellow at Type Media Center and the author of Allow Me to Retort, A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution.

In 1985, he took a leave of absence from the Post to research and write his first book, Season on the Brink, about his year shadowing the volatile Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight. It became a bestseller, as did his book, A Good Walk Spoiled, a behind-the-scenes look at the pro golf tour.

John Feinstein spoke with Dave Davies in 2011 upon the publication of his book, One-on-One, Behind the Scenes with the Greats in the Game.

In his new book, Bad Law, he argues that our country's laws on immigration, abortion, and voting rights don't reflect the will of most Americans and we'd be better off abolishing them and starting over.

Maureen Corrigan says she expects Russell's new novel, The Antidote, will be on a lot of prize lists this year.

The Antidote has just come out, and now we know why it took so long. American epics take a while.

The Antidote is set in a Dust Bowl-era Nebraska town called Uzz, but it also reaches back to the earlier pioneer era Russell evoked in her short story masterpiece, Proving Up.

The Antidote is a prairie witch who goes by the name The Antidote. Part huckster, mostly healer.