National Writers Series
Interviews and IPR broadcasts of Traverse City's National Writers Series, founded by Interlochen alumnus and New York Times bestselling author Doug Stanton.
New episodes are aired as they become available on Fridays at 1 p.m. on IPR News Radio.
Latest Episodes
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Author Ellen Airgood talks with Susan Odgers about her new novel "Tin Camp Road."
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Rochelle Riley talks with authors Honorée Jeffers, Wanda Morris, and Vanessa Riley.
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Ed Helms talks with TV writer and producer Michael Schur.
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Lisa Taylor and Michael Tiberg of the Traverse City Track Club talk with author and science professor Daniel Lieberman about his book, "Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding."
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“Firekeeper’s Daughter” is Angeline Boulley’s first book. It’s a young adult thriller about a Native teen girl who gets involved in an FBI drug investigation. It was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller for YA fiction, and is set to be adapted for Netflix by Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company, Higher Ground.
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WDET's Nargis Hakim Rahman talks with Omar El Akkad about his novel "What Strange Paradise."
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April Baer of Michigan Radio's "Stateside" talks with Joshua Prager about his book "The Family Roe."
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Alex Michaelides has written two bestselling thrillers: “The Silent Patient,” and his newest, “The Maidens.” He has a background in psychotherapy, which has inspired his writing.
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Anthony Doerr won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel “All the Light We Cannot See.” His latest book is called “Cloud Cuckoo Land.” It’s a novel the weaves together stories set in medieval Constantinople, present-day Idaho, and on an interstellar ship, decades in the future.
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Mary Roach has been called “America’s funniest science writer.” She’s written seven popular science books, including “Stiff,” “Gulp,” “Grunt,” and her latest, “Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law.”