Millet discusses her new collection of stories, and Alexandra Jacobs talks about Jamie Bernstein’s “Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein.”
Jan 23
Chuck Klosterman Has So Much to Say About Football
The journalist, novelist and cultural critic Chuck Klosterman is best known for writing about rock music and pop culture in astute essay collections like “The Nineties,” “X” and “Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs.” But Klosterman got his start in college as a sports journalist, and with ... Show More
45m 7s
Mar 2022
Nikole Hannah Jones and Adam Rubin aim to make children's books more accessible
Our interviews today are both children's books and even though they are about wildly different topics, they both aim to make reading more accessible for kids. Nikole Hannah Jones, with the help of Renee Watson, has turned the 1619 Project into a picture book called Born On The Wa ... Show More
16m 5s
Jun 2023
Banned Book Authors - Amanda Gorman, Jerry Craft, and Ibram X.Kendi
Amanda Gorman discusses reading her poem “The Hill We Climb” at President Biden’s inauguration. Jerry Craft discusses the irony of having an award-winning book banned for critical race theory, and the importance of creating books that inspire kids to feel represented and have hop ... Show More
30m 38s
Nov 2021
#364 Martha Beck: The Healing Power of Not Telling Lies
Hello and welcome back to Ctrl Alt Delete. This is a brand new episode with the brilliant Martha Beck, a return guest! I wanted to invite her back on, to talk about her book The Way Of Integrity. Martha Beck, if you didn’t already know, is a Harvard-trained sociologist, world-ren ... Show More
38m 50s
Mar 2024
#122 Rebecca Manzoni : « Ecrire avec du son, c’est vraiment ce qui me passionne »
La journaliste et chroniqueuse âgée de 51 ans, qui anime depuis quelques mois « Le Masque et la plume » sur France Inter, nous reçoit chez elle à Saint-Ouen, à deux pas des puces.<br/><br/>Rebecca Manzoni évoque son enfance en Lorraine auprès d'un père proviseur et d'un ... Show More
47m 15s