The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening

From the beloved host of NPR's All Things Considered, a stirring memoir-in-essays that is also a lover letter to journalism. In his first book, broadcaster Ari Shapiro takes us around the globe to rev…

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