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And I did write a pilot set in Detroit for Amazon called The Climb. And I just loved shooting there. [...] And then I wrote a pilot for Showtime that was set in LA. And my favorite scenes to write were the ones where she was kind of having flashbacks talking to her girlfriends in Detroit. [...] And I remember one of the things I've said often to students is only write the books you can't avoid writing. [...] And I think this became for me in an unusual way a book that I couldn't avoid writing. [...] in the aftermath of my novel Victory City, which I'd just finished.

I looked at my the notes I had made before the attack about ideas for what might I might write in the aftermath of my novel Victory City which I just finished.

He's also the author of ... The Gatekeepers, How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency.

Whipple is the author of the books Uncharted, how Trump beat Biden, Harris and the odds in the wildest campaign in history, and The Gatekeepers about White House Chiefs of Staff.

His other books include The Gatekeepers about White House Chiefs of Staff.

The Sympathizer, a new series on HBO and Max, is based on the Pulitzer Prizewinning novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen.

Writer Viet Thanh Nguyen, his Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Sympathizer, has been adapted into a new series on HBO and Max.

His Pulitzer Prizewinning novel, The Sympathizer, is now a limited TV series on HBO and Max.

Do you see your novel, The Sympathizer, in part as an answer to that, as an alternative way of seeing the war, a way of seeing it through Vietnamese eyes as opposed to through American eyes?

John Powers reviews the TV adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Sympathizer.

It's based on Viet Thanh Duyen's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, which took a seemingly well-known subject, The Vietnam War, and flipped it, telling a tale that was fresh and saucy and steeped in Vietnamese experience.

The show asks and rewards your full attention.

Ocean Vuong's 2019 debut novel, On Earth Where Briefly Gorgeous, was one of those novels that made me silently pledge, I'll follow you anywhere, whatever you write.

Bong is the author of the best-selling novel, On Earth, We're Briefly Gorgeous, and the poetry collection, Time is a Mother.

You mentioned The Secret Life of Plants, this book in 1973, that was a mixture of some reasonably good science but then a huge part of it was not something anyone could reproduce.

You mentioned The Secret Life of Plants, this book in 1973 that was a mixture of some reasonably good science but then a huge part of it was not something that anyone could reproduce. And it really tarnished the field for about 30 years.

His new book, The Message, is about what he learned about race and identity visiting three different places.

Tana Hasey Coates' new book The Message is about his reflections on race, slavery, colonialism and identity on trips to South Carolina, Senegal, Israel and the West Bank.

Tana Hasekots' new book is called The Message he spoke with Terry Gross.

Conversation with Tana Hasey Coates about his new book The Message we'll hear more of their conversation after a break.

His new book is called The Message.

My aunt gave me my first Stephen King novel, Salem's Lot, I was 13 and she said, hey, you gonna be able to handle this?

My aunt gave me my first Stephen King novel, Salem's Lot. I was 13.

Berman has been covering voting rights issues for many years and is the author of an earlier book called Give Us the Ballot, The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America.

He's the author of Give Us the Ballot, The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America.

He's the author of Give Us the Ballot, The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America. We'll be right back after a short break.

He's the author of Give Us the Ballot, The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America, and the forthcoming book Minority Rule, The RightWing Attack on the Will of the People and the Fight to Resist It, which will be published in April.

Ari, in your book, Give Us the Ballot, The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America, you take on the why, like why there's been an effort in the last 50 years to roll back the Voting Rights Act.

His bestselling memoir, We Were Dreamers, an immigrant superhero origin story, explores his family's immigration to Canada, his struggles growing up with immigrant parents, the challenges of breaking into the industry, and of being an AsianCanadian in Hollywood.

In your memoir, you write about how difficult it was for you growing up as a teenager with your parents and their unrealistic expectations for you.

His bestselling memoir, We Were Dreamers, an immigrant superhero origin story, explores his family's immigration to Canada, his struggles growing up with immigrant parents, the challenges of breaking into the industry, and of being an AsianCanadian in Hollywood.

In your memoir, you write about how difficult it was for you growing up as a teenager with your parents and their unrealistic expectations for you.

I thought it was interesting reading your book that there was this echo in the show, in this first big role that you got early in your career.

The Dream Hotel has been compared to Philip K. Dick's 1956 science fiction novella, The Minority Report.

The Dream Hotel has been compared to Philip K. Dick's 1956 science fiction novella, The Minority Report.

the great Boston writer George V. Higgins, whose crime novels, like The Friends of Eddie Coyle, did much to shape the city's self-image.

George V. Higgins, whose crime novels, like The Friends of Eddie Coyle, did much to shape the city's self-image.

Wicked was adapted from the long-running Broadway musical, which was itself inspired by Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel.

Wicked was adapted from the long-running Broadway musical, which was itself inspired by Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel.

Many filmgoers were introduced to her in the title role of the 1992 film Orlando, adapted from a 1928 Virginia Woolf novel.

Orlando, the Virginia Woolf novel.

Many filmgoers were introduced to her in the title role of the 1992 film Orlando, adapted from a 1928 Virginia Woolf novel, in which a young nobleman, a favorite of Queen Elizabeth's, inexplicably wakes up as a woman.

Mitch Albom, whose book Tuesdays with Maury became a bestselling memoir and an Emmywinning film, discusses his new novel, Twice.

It was 30 years ago that he wrote Tuesdays with Morrie, a tender, true story about the lessons he learned from his old college professor, Morrie Schwartz, who was dying of ALS. The book became one of the best-selling memoirs of all time, with its simple but profound reflections on living.

He wrote Spartacus.

my grandfather was Howard Fast, and he was jailed during the House of NonAmerican Activities. He wrote Spartacus. He wrote a number of books.

Her new memoir is titled Lovely One, which is the meaning of her name, Katonji Onyeka, an African name that her aunt suggested her parents choose to express her pride and African heritage.

Justice Jackson's new memoir was called Lovely One, and we talked about how it details her life and rise to the Supreme Court.

Her new memoir is titled Lovely One, which is the meaning of her name,

She's written a new memoir about her life and rise to the Supreme Court called Lovely One.

My guest is Supreme Court Justice Katanji Brown Jackson. She's written a new memoir about her life and rise to the Supreme Court called Lovely One.

Justice Katalangi BrownJackson's new memoir is titled Lovely One.

Uzo Aduba's new memoir is The Road Is Good, How a Mother's Strength Became a Daughter's Purpose.

Her new memoir is titled The Road Is Good, How a Mother's Strength Became a Daughter's Purpose.

Uzo Aduba's new memoir is The Road Is Good, How a Mother's Strength Became a Daughter's Purpose.

Her new memoir is titled The Road Is Good, How a Mother's Strength Became a Daughter's Purpose.

The name of your book is The Road Is Good, which is the meaning of your name.

She's written a new memoir about her life and the impact her mother had on it, and it's called The Road Is Good, How a Mother's Strength Became a Daughter's Purpose.

The Road Is Good.

Uzo Aduba's new memoir is called The Road Is Good, How a Mother's Strength Became a Daughter's Purpose.

In Revenge of the Tipping Point, bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell returns to the subject of social epidemics and tipping points and the dark side of contagious phenomena. Available wherever books are sold and wherever you get your audiobooks.

In Revenge of the Tipping Point, bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell returns to the subject of social epidemics and tipping points and the dark side of contagious phenomena.

Available wherever books are sold and wherever you get your audiobooks.

Trotter's new book, The Upcycled Self, a memoir on the art of becoming who we are.

His new memoir, The Upcycled Self, a memoir on the art of becoming who we are.

Trotter, a.k.a. Black Thought, on his new book, The Upcycled Self, a memoir on the art of becoming who we are.

And Trotter's new book, The Upcycled Self, a memoir on the art of becoming who we are, the Grammy awardwinning rapper and cofounder of the hip hop group The Roots examines the shame of that moment, as well as other harrowing events growing up in Philadelphia, intertwined with joyful moments like discovering music and meeting his fellow bandmate Amir Questlove Thompson.

Today we're talking to Grammy Award winning rapper and performer Black Thought, also known as Tariq Trotter, about his new memoir, The Upcycled Self, a memoir on the art of becoming who we are.

Tariq Trotter, aka Black Thought, on his new book, The Upcycled Self, a memoir on the art of becoming who we are.

You write about it in your book.

MSNBC political analyst Molly Jong-Fast talks about her mother, Erica Jong, who became famous for her 1973 feminist novel, Fear of Flying.

My mother is writer Erica Jong, who became famous for her 1973 novel, Fear of Flying, which sold about 20 million copies and was considered a groundbreaking work of second-wave feminist literature.

Her mother is writer Erica Jong, who became famous for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying, which sold about 20 million copies and was considered a groundbreaking work of secondwave feminist literature.

So I think when you think about Fear of Flying, it's important to remember exactly what that year looked like, 1973... my mom did this thing, which was she wrote this book that... just captured the American imagination.