Writers & Writing

A lady's maid and a gentleman's valet fall in love and hatch a plan to get their employers together in the new novel "A Perfect Hand." NPR's Elissa Nadworny talks with author Ayelet Waldman about it.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with actress Hayden Panettiere about her new memoir, This is Me, and some of the challenges she's faced, from bullying as a child to losing custody of her own child.

"The Simpsons" is the longest-running sitcom on television, but some of its self-proclaimed biggest fans stopped watching decades ago.

Caputo, who died May 7, wrote the acclaimed 1977 memoir A Rumor of War, about leading a Marine platoon during the Vietnam war. He went on to a career in journalism. Originally broadcast in 2005.

NYU Law professor Melissa Murray gives context and commentary on the nation's founding document in her new book The U.S. Constitution: A Comprehensive and Annotated Guide for the Modern Reader.

Aguda's novel, One Leg on Earth, follows a young woman in Nigeria facing an unintended pregnancy. The Things We Never Say, by Strout, centers on a high school teacher leading a secret life of sadness.

In her new book, "El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory," New York Times reporter Jazmine Ulloa recounts the history of the town she grew up in, which she believes speaks as much or more to the immigrant experience than Ellis Island.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks to Admiral James Stavridis and Elliot Ackerman about their new book, 2084, which examines a future where climate change has ravaged the planet.

Tech writer Joanna Stern used AI to read medical results, respond to texts and serve as her therapist. She says her emotional connection to it was unsettling. Her new book is I Am Not a Robot.

In Eve J. Chung's new novel, Ellie Chang ends up stuck in a place she's only known as enemy territory, reliant on strangers to help her get home.