Mar 06 How a surprising DNA test inspired this writer’s memoir By Courtney Vinopal Our March pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club “Now Read This” is Dani Shapiro’s “Inheritance.” Become a member of the book club by joining our Facebook group, or by signing up to our newsletter. Learn… Continue reading
Mar 05 Discussion questions for ‘Inheritance’ By Courtney Vinopal Our March 2020 pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club is Dani Shapiro’s “Inheritance.”… Continue reading
Mar 02 Watch 6:14 ‘American Prison’ author Shane Bauer answers your questions By Amna Nawaz, Courtney Vinopal Shane Bauer, author of our February pick for the NewsHour-New York Times book club, Now Read This, joins Amna Nawaz to answer reader questions on “American Prison,” and Amna announces the March book selection. Continue watching
Feb 28 ‘Inheritance’ is our March book club pick By Courtney Vinopal After submitting her DNA for analysis to an ancestry website in 2016, Dani Shapiro received a piece of news that rocked her to the core: The man who had raised her, her now-deceased father, was not her biological kin. Continue reading
Feb 26 5 ways prisoners were used for profit throughout U.S. history By Shane Bauer "American Prison" author Shane Bauer highlights a few key moments in the history of prison-as-profit in America, drawing from research he conducted for the book. Continue reading
Feb 18 Author Shane Bauer on being both prisoner and prison guard By Courtney Vinopal “Power struggles in prison are sometimes overtly violent, but mostly they are psychological and subtle,” he said. Continue reading
Feb 10 Why the author of ‘American Prison’ embraces people’s contradictions By Courtney Vinopal “It will make your writing much better in the end,” says Shane Bauer. Continue reading
Feb 04 Discussion questions for ‘American Prison’ By Courtney Vinopal Our February pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club is Shane Bauer’s “American Prison.”… Continue reading
Jan 29 Watch 6:43 ‘Heart Berries’ author Terese Marie Mailhot answers your questions By Jeffrey Brown, Courtney Vinopal Terese Marie Mailhot, author of our January pick for the NewsHour-New York Times book club, Now Read This, joins Jeffrey Brown to answer reader questions on “Heart Berries,” and Jeff announces the February book selection. Continue watching
Jan 29 These photos helped the author of ‘Heart Berries’ mine her memory By Courtney Vinopal “Photographs informed parts of the book my memory could not retrieve,” said Terese Marie Mailhot. Continue reading