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In his new book, Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream, author and journalist Sam Quinones explores the complexities and contradictions of the immigration debate through true stories of Mexican migration.
A new book by Tina Brown chronicles the life and legacy of the late Princess of Wales.
For Pete Jordan, washing dishes was a calling that spanned 12 years and 50 states.
June 9, 2007 · In her new book, Conquering Gotham, historian Jill Jonnes documents the drama behind the construction of New York City's old Penn Station. She gathers a cast of corporate leaders, corrupt politicians and daring engineers who brought the station to life in 1910. Web Extra: Read an Excerpt
June 8, 2007 · NPR Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg polls three independent booksellers for recommendations on fresh new reads — and old favorites — worth making time for this summer. Web Extra: Reviews, Excerpts
June 9, 2007 · Bestselling author Paulo Coelho's newest novel, The Witch of Portobello, explores the concept of goddess-based religion. Coehlo talks about the new book with John Ydstie.
June 8, 2007 · As a young man in Wisconsin, Jim Krawczyk's favorite writer was J.D. Salinger. And in the late 1960s, Krawczyk decided to go on a roadtrip to meet his hero — in Cornish, the small New Hampshire town that the celebrated recluse calls home.
June 6, 2007 · Author Anne Fadiman is in love with the English language. In her new book, a collection of familiar essays called At Large and At Small, she celebrates the nearly forgotten form of Romantic-era essayists such as Charles Lamb.
June 5, 2007 · Adam Gopnik says the Nobel Prize winner isn't merely a poet: She's "a necessary writer, as necessary as toast," adept at delivering "a small truth articulated as a sharp ironic point" — and "an emotion given a shape neither all too familiar nor all too abstract." Web Extra: Read a Poem
June 6, 2007 · Bob Shrum, in his new book, takes credit for the famous line delivered from Lloyd Bentsen's mouth to Dan Quayle: "Senator, I knew Jack Kennedy, and you're no Jack Kennedy." Plenty of folks disagree and claim the line was theirs. The truth about the lineage of the famous quote is hard to discern, especially now that Bentsen is gone. To paraphrase JFK himself, success has a thousand fathers; failure is an orphan — or did he say "bastard"?
June 5, 2007 · Kiran Desai's tragicomic novel The Inheritance of Loss spans two continents and three generations. The story cuts between New York and India, contrasting the meager conditions of immigrant life in the city with the political unrest engulfing a Himalayan hill town.
June 5, 2007 · In his new biography of Sen. Hillary Clinton, writer Carl Bernstein claims to cut through what he calls the "self-generated myth" about the presidential candidate. Bernstein talks about the details of his new book, A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
June 4, 2007 · Summer is the season we can finally tackle the books that have been piling up on our desks and forming small mountains on the floor. Book critic Alan Cheuse offers a selection of some of the best books of late spring and early summer, and some classics that are always present in his literary landscape.
June 4, 2007 · As kids we preferred indoor recess to the playground hullabaloo. As adults we're film dorks, comic book geeks and indie-music nerds. We do not, as a general rule, jet-ski. This is what we'll be reading as we try to avoid the sun.
June 5, 2007 · As Phil Spector stands trial for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson, his biographer is among the observers. Mick Brown, author of a new book about the legendary producer, interviewed Spector just weeks before Spector allegedly killed Lana Clarkson.
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