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Author Interviews

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Featured Radio Interview:

National Writers Series: An evening with Sebastian Junger and Philip Caputo at Interlochen Center for the Arts

Philip and Sebastian Junger talk with retired U.S. diplomat and political advisor Jack Segal. Jack asked Philip to start the discussion by reading from “A Rumor of War.”    Listen »


Print

MoresbyPress.com: Author Gregory W. Beaubien speaks with Philip Caputo at length about Hunter’s Moon. (2019)

The New York Times: A Conversation Between Philip Caputo and William Least Heat-Moon (2013)

Parade Magazine: In Search of America. One Nation Indivisible (2013)

Reader’s Digest Best of America: “What Unites These States?” (2013)

Chicago Tribune Printers Row: Q&A with Philip Caputo on The Longest Road (2013)

Concerning Caputo: Africa and Acts of Faith as Art, Science, and Much More (2013), a book-length appraisal of my 2005 novel ACTS OF FAITH

WLA Journal interview with Philip Caputo (2000)

Bookbrowse conversation with Philip Caputo about Crossers (2009)

Audio

Podcast: The Leonard Lopate Show (NPR), Interview about RETURNING TO VIETNAM 50 Years Later in A Rumor of War (2017)

Podcast: Esquire Classic—Styron’s Choices by Philip Caputo


Radio: The Leonard Lopate Show, Interview about THE LONGEST ROAD (2013)

Radio: Culture Shocks interview with Barry Lynn about THE LONGEST ROAD

Podcast: “Blood Lines: The Literature of War,” a reading by Philip Caputo & Kevin Powers in conversation with Elliot Ackerman | The PEN/Faulkner Podcast Series (2013)

Radio: Kansas City NPR (KCUR), Interview about THE LONGEST ROAD (2013) 

Radio: WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Interview about THE LONGEST ROAD (2013) 

Radio: Interview with Scott Simon, WEEKEND EDITION, NPR News, about Acts of Faith (2005)

Podcast: National Writers Series, interviewed by Karl Marlantes (2010)

Video

Charlie Rose Show (to play video, click below to go to the Charlie Rose website; interview starts at the 33:50 minute mark)

Philip Caputo on Charlie Rose

The Author’s Road, 36-minute author interview (2012) (to play video, click below to go to YouTube)

The-Author's-Road-video

Telling “Out on a Ledge” story on TheMoth.com (2009)  (or play audio version)

Video: Pritzker Military Library interviews Philip Caputo on Acts of Faith (2005)

Video: MyNorth.com interview between Karl Marlantes and Philip Caputo (2010)

Video: Writing War, conversation with Philip Caputo, Michigan Humanities Council (2010)

Video: Tucson Festival of Books: Writer’s Panel Discussion on the U.S. and Mexico Border (2010)

Author Archives

Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center: Philip Caputo letters, papers, audio and video archives