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Ari is an award-winning journalist and news anchor, TV host, public speaker, singer, cabaret artist, and bestselling author. He has been an answer in the New York Times crossword puzzle and a category on Jeopardy!
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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“The book keeps on giving, chapter after chapter, in turns humorous, introspective, or deeply serious, weaving together personal anecdotes, behind-the-scenes secrets, and heartbreaking profiles from war zones and refugee camps. Shapiro says he's built his radio career on "empathy, connection, and listening"— qualities that ring true in his writing as well.”
– starred Booklist
“True tales that even a novelist couldn’t imagine … ‘The Best Strangers in the World’ is the best read this spring.”
“Shapiro’s confident, clear voice and self-deprecating humor, familiar to his many fans, translates well to the written word. His writing will resonate with many and is a treasure for biography readers. Highly recommended.”
– starred Library Journal
“This is not simply a re-reporting of interviews already covered by NPR. Instead, Shapiro is committed to ’dreaming the culture forward and creating the world we want it to be’ — just like the radical faerie movement he so admires. He is contributing to a necessary public conversation, centering voices that make us beautifully, imperfectly human.”
“A clever and compulsively readable crowd pleaser.”
– Kirkus
"Longtime listeners and first-time callers alike will delight in this collection."
Jeopardy!
To mark my tenth anniversary as a host of NPR’s All Things Considered, Jeopardy! asked me to present the category: “Ari Shapiro on Talking and Listening.”
