Hi, it's NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbaung. There's a staple of American literature

that's something like stories we tell ourselves and what it takes to believe them. At best,

we need these stories because they're necessary for survival. At worst, we're too stubborn or

too stupid to hear any other version of a story.

We've got two interviews today that get at that theme in some really interesting ways. In a bit,

we'll hear from Britt Bennett about her novel The Vanishing Half. It's about two black twin sisters,

one of whom decides to leave their hometown and live her life as a white person.

The book isn't judgy about that decision, but it does go into the real costs of self-mythologizing.

But first, former NPR host, Noel King, talks with writer Danielle Evans about her short story collection,

The Office of Historical Corrections.

And in the interview, Evans talks about being inspired by an overheard conversation on the subway

where everyone was wrong, not like wrong-minded or had bad opinions, but just like actually,

factually, googlably, incorrect.

And sure, that's frustrating and bad, but would a

world where we could fix that be any better?

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