“Wild” by Cheryl Strayed NPR Audio Interview and MP3 Excerpt

NPR Weekend Edition (March 18, 2012)
A "Wild," Solitary Journey on The Pacific Crest Trail

Also, don't miss the "Wild" Downloadable Audio Excerpt (click link to start download)

It Does a Body Good: Five Fitness Memoirs Memorial Day Weekend means beach time, which also means guiltily remembering that long forgotten New Year's resolution....

Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan, With Thanks to Woody Guthrie Seventy-two years ago today in Duluth, Minnesota, the songwriter, performer, and cultural luminary known as Bob...

Now the Story of…An Arrested Development Reading List While we count down to new episodes of Arrested Development on Netflix beginning on May 26, here’s a look at what’s...

In The News

Booze, Benders, and Books: The Literary Companion to The Hangover Series “The wolfpack” is back, in "The Hangover 3," which opens this Thursday. Before you sneak that flask of wine...

Angelina Jolie to Play Her Mother in New Biopic, and More Stuart David to write a memoir about his time spent as a member of Belle & Sebastian; actor Dev Patel will play...

This Week in History: Bonnie and Clyde Die as Criminals, Live on as Heroes On May 23, 1934, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were gunned down by two squads of state police while cruising through...

Interviews

Someone Could Get Hurt: Parenting 101 with Drew Magary Magary's memoir has more truth, and is way funnier, than any other parenting book we've come across. Here he sits...

Behind the Books with Don Snyder, Author of Walking With Jack In this segment of Behind the Books Don Snyder, author of Walking with Jack, tells us of his early (and we mean...

Behind the Books with Ray Monk, Author of Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center In Oppenheimer, Ray Monk's new biography of the Father of the Atomic Bomb, Monk aims to show how the scientist's...