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News Articles: Author Interviews

Laura Coates teaches law at George Washington University Law School and is a senior analyst for CNN. She also hosts <em>The Laura Coates Show</em>, on radio SiriusXM's Urban View.

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Attorney Laura Coates has witnessed the dissolution of voting rights first hand

While working for the Department of Justice, Coates says she saw voter rolls being purged and instances where polling places were moved to known Klan locations. Her new memoir is Just Pursuit.

January 17, 2022
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  • Terry Gross
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New book details how California prosecutors took down sex trafficking site Backpage

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Maggy Krell, an ex-California state prosecutor, about her book, Taking Down Backpage: Fighting The World's Largest Sex Trafficker.

January 12, 2022
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GPB  NPR

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Actor Kal Penn isn't afraid to take chances, on screen or in life

Penn got his start in stoner comedies, then took a hiatus from acting to work for the Obama administration. He shares stories from his life and career in the memoir You Can't Be Serious.

January 10, 2022
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  • Ann Marie Baldonado

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WaaaAAH! Rraak! 'Everybody in the Red Brick Building' is awake!

Baby Izzie howls, Rayhan's parrot screeches, Benny and his friends play flashlight tag, and Natalia launches her rocket in the new children's book by author Anne Wynter and illustrator Oge Mora.

January 10, 2022
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  • Samantha Balaban
The container ship Hyundai Hope is loaded in Norfolk, Va., on Dec. 1, 2021.

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  • Author Interviews

The global supply chain is amazingly efficient. So why did it break down?

"Americans went on a shopping spree as soon as lockdown started, and we haven't really stopped," journalist Christopher Mims says. His book, Arriving Today, goes inside the global supply chain.

January 05, 2022
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  • Dave Davies

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  • Health

When facing loss, embrace change and don't force closure, a therapist urges

Over the last two years, many have experienced a kind of ambiguous loss as we have lived with isolation and uncertainty in the pandemic. Author and therapist Pauline Boss explains how to move forward.

January 05, 2022
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  • Graison Dangor
After serving as the lead manager for the ultimately unsuccessful second Trump impeachment, Rep. Jamie Raskin became a member of the House select committee looking into the Jan. 6 attacks.

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  • Politics

After his son's suicide and the Jan. 6 attack, Rep. Jamie Raskin is not giving up

Raskin's son died just days before the Capitol insurrection. Now Raskin serves on the House select committee charged with investigating the Jan. 6 attack. His new memoir is Unthinkable.

January 04, 2022
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  • Terry Gross
GPB  NPR

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  • Author Interviews

Almost a year after Jan. 6, two journalists release their book 'The Steal'

David Gura speaks with journalists Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague about their new book "The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and the People Who Stopped It."

January 02, 2022
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  • David Gura and
  • Danny Hensel
Same-sex marriage supporters wear "Just married" shirts while celebrating the U.S Supreme Court ruling regarding same-sex marriage on June 26, 2015 in San Francisco.

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  • Politics

The story of marriage equality is more complicated — and costly — than you remember

Sasha Issenberg, author of The Engagement, a history of marriage equality, says he doesn't see the Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges being overturned anytime soon.

December 31, 2021
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  • Danielle Kurtzleben
The top <em>Fresh Air </em>web stories of 2021 reflect the show's status as a place where artists, authors and journalists speak to the moment.

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You won't want to miss the 10 most popular 'Fresh Air' stories of 2021

From Dr. Anthony Fauci to Sacha Baron Cohen, the year's most popular Fresh Air web pages reflect the show's strength as a place where artists, authors and journalists speak to the moment.

December 30, 2021
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  • Bridget Bentz and
  • Molly Seavy-Nesper
Joan Didion arrives at the opening night of <em>The Year Of Magical Thinking</em>, a play based on her memoir by the same name, at the Booth Theatre on March 29, 2007, in New York City.

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Joan Didion: The NPR interviews

NPR's talks with Didion date back to 1977, where the author described what she meant when she wrote "writers are always selling somebody out" in the introduction of Slouching Towards Bethlehem.

December 23, 2021
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  • Tien Le
Faith Jones is the granddaughter of David Berg, the founder of the Children of God cult. Jones lived as a member of the group until she was 23.

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'Sex Cult Nun' says discovering self-ownership helped her break free from The Family

Faith Jones' grandfather founded the Children of God cult. She was taught sex was a service to God and that women should freely "share" their bodies, regardless of whether they wanted to or not.

December 21, 2021
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  • Terry Gross

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In 'The Sour Cherry Tree,' a child keeps memories of her late grandfather close

The day after her beloved Baba Bazorg dies, a little girl remembers some of her favorite things about him: his striped slippers, the mints in his pockets and the fig cookies he always shared.

December 18, 2021
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  • Samantha Balaban
Grace M. Cho is an associate professor of sociology and anthropology at the CUNY College of Staten Island.

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In 'Tastes Like War,' a daughter reckons with her mother's schizophrenia

Cho was a teenager when her mother began to exhibit signs of mental illness. Later, as an adult, she learned more about the trauma her mom experienced, both during and after the Korean War.

December 14, 2021
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  • Dave Davies
<em>Out of Office </em>co-author Anne Helen Petersen says the coronavirus pandemic has created a rare opportunity to rethink the shape of work life.

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Working 9 to 5? 'Out of Office' author says maybe it's time to rethink that

Journalist Anne Helen Petersen says the notion that employees should be in the office for certain hours every day is an arbitrary one: "You don't need to be in an office to answer emails."

December 13, 2021
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  • Terry Gross
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