“Nothing comes easily out here,” Terry Tempest Williams, a Utah-based writer, said of the American West. Her family was once almost taken by fire, and as a child of the West, she grew up with it.
Our producer Bianca Giaever, who was working out of the West Coast when the wildfires started, woke up one day amid the smoke with the phrase “an obituary to the l ... Show More
May 2022
Somebody, Sing a Black Girl’s Song
An intergenerational meditation on Ntozake Shange’s iconic Broadway play, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf. First, host Kai Wright and producer speak with the director and choreographer of the current Broadway Revival, Camille A. Brown. Then, ... Show More
49m 32s
May 2022
Brian Morton on ‘Tasha: A Son’s Memoir’
<p>Brian Morton, an accomplished novelist, has turned to nonfiction for the first time in his new book, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/05/books/review/tasha-brian-morton.html" target="_blank">“Tasha: A Son’s Memoir.”</a> On this week’s podcast, he discusses his mother’s ... Show More
36m 7s
Jul 2021
A Heartbreaking Novel About Mothers, Daughters and Secrets
<p>The latest pick for Group Text, our monthly column for readers and book clubs, is Esther Freud's <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/13/books/i-couldnt-love-you-more-esther-freud-group-text.html" target="_blank">“I Couldn’t Love You More,”</a> a novel about three generati ... Show More
56m 44s