Audio Apr 10, 2015 Taylor Mali Four-time National Poetry Slam champion Taylor Mali connects stage and page.
Audio Feb 27, 2015 Raymond Arsenault His book, "The Sound of Freedom," examines the 30-minute concert by Marian Anderson that helped move a nation forward.
Audio Jan 09, 2015 Dinaw Mengestu His novel "In All Our Names," explores unlikely love in the midst of conflict.
Audio Nov 20, 2014 Nathaniel Philbrick In a slim, lucid, and compulsively readable book, Nathaniel Philbrick makes an enthusiastic case for taking a look at Melville’s classic, "Moby-Dick."
Audio Nov 06, 2014 Fred Foote The neurologist/holistic practioneer knows first-hand the healing power of the arts for veterans.
Audio Oct 30, 2014 Max Brooks The author of "World War Z" really isn’t kidding when it comes to zombies.
Audio Oct 23, 2014 Jesmyn Ward Attempting to understand the links in the untimely deaths of her brother and four friends in her memoir "Men We Reaped."
Audio Aug 21, 2014 Jonathan Tucker The DC Youth Slam Team is an award-winning internationally acclaimed poetry group. Listen to their poems and find out how it all comes together.
Audio Aug 14, 2014 Elizabeth McCracken NEA Literature Fellow on the differences in writing novels, short stories, and tweets.
Audio Jul 10, 2014 Julie Otsuka Her first novel, "When the Emperor Was Divine," explores her family’s history in the Japanese-American internment camps during World War II.
Audio May 29, 2014 Dinaw Mengestu The author discusses the NEA Big Read selection, The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears, his novel about an Ethiopian exile in a gentrifying Washington, DC neighborhood.