Author Talk Series
Enjoy a range of talks from bestselling authors and thought leaders. Brought to you in partnership with the Library Speakers Consortium.
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Books and authors talked about on your favorite NPR shows.
Book
Son of elsewhere : a memoir in pieces [2022]
Elamin Abdelmahmoud
Illegally yours : a memoir [2022]
Rafael Agustin
Time is a mother [2022]
Ocean Vuong
Inciting joy : essays [2022]
Ross Gay
Praying with Jane Eyre : reflections on reading… [2021]
Vanessa Zoltan
Funny you should ask : a novel [2022]
Elissa Sussman
Orwell's roses [2021]
Rebecca Solnit
Legacy : a Black physician reckons with racism… [2024]
Uché Blackstock
Crook manifesto : a novel [2023]
Colson Whitehead
Collision of power : Trump, Bezos, and The… [2023]
Martin Baron
Pageboy : a memoir [2023]
Elliot Page
Wildflower : a memoir [2023]
Aurora James
It was all a dream : Biggie and the world that… [2022]
Justin Tinsley
American sirens : the incredible story of the… [2022]
Kevin M Hazzard
The song of the cell : an exploration of… [2022]
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Filterworld : how algorithms flattened culture [2024]
Kyle Chayka
An Amerikan family : the Shakurs and the nation… [2023]
Santi Elijah Holley
Out there screaming : an anthology of new Black… [2023]
Peele, Jordan, 1979-
Don't call me home : a memoir [2023]
Alexandra Auder
King : a life [2023]
Jonathan Eig
Ultra-processed people : the science behind food… [2023]
Chris van Tulleken
Waco : David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and a… [2023]
Jeff Guinn
All that moves us : a pediatric neurosurgeon,… [2022]
Jay Wellons
Hold the line : the insurrection and one cop's… [2022]
Michael Fanone
The necessary journey : making real progress on… [2022]
Ella F Washington
The everlasting meal cookbook : leftovers A-Z [2023]
Tamar Adler
Quantum criminals : ramblers, wild gamblers, and… [2023]
Alex Pappademas
It's OK to be angry about capitalism [2023]
Bernard Sanders
Futureproof : 9 rules for humans in the age of… [2021]
Kevin Roose
Built from the fire : the epic story of Tulsa's… [2023]
Victor Luckerson
Fat talk : parenting in the age of diet culture [2023]
Virginia Sole-Smith
Unmasked : my life solving America's cold cases [2022]
Paul Holes
Girls that never die : poems [2022]
Safia Elhillo
Dear Denise : letters to the sister I never knew [2022]
Lisa McNair
Half American : the epic story of African… [2022]
Matthew F Delmont
Red carpet : Hollywood, China, and the global… [2022]
Erich Schwartzel
How not to kill yourself : a portrait of the… [2023]
Clancy W Martin
Awe : the new science of everyday wonder and how… [2023]
Dacher Keltner
Elon Musk [2023]
Walter Isaacson
You've been chosen : thriving through the… [2022]
Cynthia Marshall
Status and culture : how our desire for social… [2022]
W David Marx
Your table is ready : tales of a New York City… [2022]
Michael Cecchi-Azzolina
Shit Cassandra saw : stories [2022]
Gwen E Kirby
Weapons of mass delusion : when the Republican… [2022]
Robert Draper
Oscar wars : a history of Hollywood in gold,… [2023]
Michael Schulman
Money : the true story of a made-up thing [2022]
Jacob (Cohost of Planet Money podcast) Goldstein
The Sioux Chef's indigenous kitchen [2017]
Sean Sherman
Ejaculate responsibly : a whole new way to think… [2022]
Gabrielle Stanley Blair
Walking Gentry home : a memoir of my foremothers… [2022]
Alora Young