Authors on the Web
WKNO-FM, April 16, 2013
...still send a shiver up my back, then I'm not doing my job," Stefaniuk says. Transcript SCOTT SIMON, HOST: On Broadway, a hit show can run not just for years but decades. So, how do you keep long-running shows fresh for new audiences? Jeff Lunden...
Forward, April 14, 2013
...ve ever read, like ever,” Facebook user Tania Saez Pinto wrote. Media commentators also joined in the fray. Scott Simon, host of U.S.-based National Public Radio, said on Twitter, “Anne would be wise enough to just laugh.” Anne Frank, who...
WNYC, April 13, 2013
...always wanted to translate Dante, but I always knew there was a problem," James tells NPR's Scott Simon. "Which is that of the three books of the Comedy — that's 'Hell,' 'Purgatory' and 'Heaven, 'Hell' is the most fascinating, in the first instance,...
Examiner.com, April 8, 2013
...Scott Simon, author of "Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball," will be the speaker for Creighton University's Ross Horning Lecture on April 15, which is Jackie Robinson Day...
WRTI 90.1 FM, April 8, 2013
...Sweeney has written a new memoir of her life as a Midwestern mother. She speaks to NPR's Scott Simon about her decision to adopt from China, how her daughter got to be named Mulan (yes, after the Disney character), and gaining a new appreciation for her...
KMUW 89.1 FM, April 8, 2013
...Stephen King dubbed her Case Histories as the best mystery of the decade. Last week on Weekend Edition, Scott Simon praised Life After Life for its intricate plot. But the accolades that got my attention came from the advance praise sheet with quotes...
Houston public radio, April 6, 2013
...Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon talks with Wall Street Journal reporter Greg Bensinger about Amazon's acquisition of the reader reviews site, Goodreads, and the implications for readers, authors and publishers...
NPR, January 19, 2013
...protagonist on his search for his family's secrets in a Cornish seaside town. Jordan joins NPR's Scott Simon to talk about , which has been reissued in the United States by Soft Skull Press. On encountering after 30 years "Well, it's the strangest thing,...
NPR, January 19, 2013
...who helped assemble the list of 130 poems eligible for Poetry By Heart — spoke to NPR's Scott Simon about the joys of memorization. As it turns out, both Sprackland and Simon still remember texts they learned years ago: for Sprackland, it's John Keats'...
NPR, January 19, 2013
...s now about to begin his first year as manager of the Cleveland Indians. He joins NPR's Scott Simon to talk about the book he co-wrote with Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy, : The Red Sox Years. On Boston's spirit during the 2004 World Series ...
NPR, January 19, 2013
...on novels, movies and myths, but Corera's book, : The Secret History of MI6, Corera joins NPR's Scott Simon to discuss the changing role of intelligence operations and why spies make great novelists. "I think it's one of the most interesting ways of...
NPR, January 19, 2013
...English poet Jean Sprackland helped select the poems at the heart of the contest. She joins NPR's Scott Simon to discuss the pleasures of poetry memorization. On learning by heart, not by rote "Well, I suppose there's a great difference between...
The Empire, January 19, 2013
...who helped assemble the list of 130 poems eligible for Poetry By Heart — spoke to NPR's Scott Simon about the joys of memorization. As it turns out, both Sprackland and Simon still remember texts they learned years ago: for Sprackland, it's John Keats'...
NHPR, January 19, 2013
...who helped assemble the list of 130 poems eligible for Poetry By Heart — spoke to NPR's Scott Simon about the joys of memorization. As it turns out, both Sprackland and Simon still remember texts they learned years ago: for Sprackland, it's John Keats'...
