In this episode, meet Gregory Curtis, author of Paris Without Her, Lorenzo Carcaterra, author of Three Dreamers, and Sarah Sentilles, author of Stranger Care. READ MORE
The United Nations established the International Day of Peace (observed on September 21 each year) in 1981. Here we take a look at five audiobooks that show just how powerful peace and love can be. READ MORE
“It took me 10 years to write DRAW YOUR WEAPONS. I wrote it after seeing two photographs. The first photograph I saw was a picture of a man and he was holding a violin, and I read the newspaper story about him. It turned out he was a conscientious objector during World War II who’d protested the internment of Japanese Americans, and was put in prison. While he was there, he built a violin. And the newspaper story I read about him was about his grandson completing that violin and giving it to him on his birthday. And everything in my body said, ‘you have to write about this person.'”
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