Nonfiction Audio

  • "BAP Like Me"

    Adrienne Crew reads from her piece about black American princesses, responds to reader comments, and swears never to joke about Oprah again.
    By Adrienne Crew December 6, 2002

  • "Blue Latitudes"

    In his latest book, Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Horowitz retraces Captain James Cook's epic journeys onboard a replica of Cook's 18th-century ship.
    Read by Daniel Gerroll October 21, 2002

  • "The Cell"

    Listen to an excerpt from the new book by ABC newscaster John Miller and reporters Michael Stone and Chris Mitchell on why the FBI and CIA failed to stop the 9/11 attacks.
    By John Miller September 12, 2002

  • "The Vagina Monologues"

    Eve Ensler reads from her Obie Award-winning book, which celebrates female sexuality and gives voice to the deepest fantasies and fears of real women.
    September 6, 2002

  • Bite me!

    After being annoyed with what he calls phony hysteria over last summer's shark attacks, Peter Benchley, the author of "Jaws," sets the facts straight in his new book "Shark Trouble."
    By Peter Benchley August 8, 2002

  • Ted Nugent: 53 years clean and sober

    Listen to an excerpt from Amy Benfer's interview with the Nuge, in which he explains the three stages of being after rock stardom. You're either 1) a dead asshole, 2) near death (Ozzy) or 3) thriving like Uncle Ted.
    July 24, 2002

  • Being Faye Dunaway's comedy coach

    L.A.-based Un-Cabaret's star-studded comedy shows are about those moments when the evil TV network cancels your show, or you are on the receiving end of a diva fit.
    By Hugh Elliott July 19, 2002

  • Interview with Joseph Stiglitz

    The winner of the 2001 Nobel prize in economics talks with Damien Cave about his book "Globalization and Its Discontents," the WorldCom scandal, the mistakes of the IMF and more.
    July 3, 2002

  • "There's an almost universal desire to see Israel eradicated"

    Listen to an excerpt from Suzy Hansen's interview with Michael B. Oren, author of "Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East."
    June 12, 2002

  • Particle visions

    Famed physicist Stephen Hawking tackles the predictability of the future and flaws of astrology in an excerpt from his book "The Universe in a Nutshell."
    Read by Simon Prebble June 3, 2002

  • "Fast Food Nation"

    Eric Schlosser uncovers the beef industry's schemes as he reports from the dark side of the All-American meal.
    Read by Rick Adamson May 3, 2002

  • "The Nanny Diaries"

    Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin share their experiences of tending to Manhattan's overprivileged children and their useless parents.
    Read by Julia Roberts May 1, 2002

  • Teen Times

    Listen to a story by Paul Rudnick in which he suggests headlines for imaginary teen publications -- an excerpt from "Fierce Pajamas," a collection of humor writings from the New Yorker.
    Read by Chris Gannon April 26, 2002

  • "Revenge"

    A decade after her father was shot by a terrorist in Jerusalem in 1986, Laura Blumenfeld went looking for the shooter. Listen to an excerpt from her story.
    Read by Laura Blumenfeld April 10, 2002

  • "See No Evil"

    Former CIA field officer Robert Baer, who left the agency in 1997 after more than 20 years, recounts his 1995 mission in northern Iraq.
    February 12, 2002

  • "Child Stars"

    Never shy to state his opinion, Dennis Miller takes pity on Haley Joel Osment and makes it clear why you ought to keep your child away from Hollywood.
    December 14, 2001

  • "Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea"

    Carl Zimmer's companion book to the PBS series tells the story of the theory of evolution from Darwin to 21st-century science.
    Read by Peter Thomas December 12, 2001

  • "I'm A Stranger Here Myself"

    Listen to humorist and bestselling author Bill Bryson's account of coming back to the U.S. after living in Britain for two decades.
    December 4, 2001

  • "I Thought My Father Was God"

    Paul Auster reads from a new compilation of stories submitted to him by listeners as part of NPR's National Story Project.
    November 30, 2001

  • "You females got a lot of courage..."

    Listen to a phone conversation between Lyndon Johnson and a devastated Jacqueline Kennedy, secretly recorded by the president days after JFK was killed.
    November 29, 2001

  • "We are good"

    A post-Sept. 11 rant by the author of "San Francisco Bizarro" and "Sex American Style."
    By Jack Boulware November 9, 2001

  • "The Lion in Winter"

    Listen to Sebastian Junger read his profile of Afghan rebel Ahmed Shah Massoud, from in his new book, "Fire."
    November 6, 2001

  • "Stolen Lives"

    After a fairy-tale upbringing as the adopted daughter of Moroccan King Muhammad V, Malika Oufkir was imprisoned in desert jails for over 20 years after her father's coup against the king's heir failed.
    Read by Edita Brychta October 22, 2001

  • Practicing compassion

    Nicholas Vreeland, the director of the Tibet Center in New York, reads from the Dalai Lama's book "An Open Heart," and Richard Gere reads his afterword.
    October 19, 2001

  • Revenue champions

    Bob Costas examines the consequences of the growing financial disparities in Major League Baseball in his book "Fair Ball."
    July 11, 2001
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