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The Book Case

We Get a Little Deeper with David K. Shipler

The Book Case

ABC News

Fiction, Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.1766 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

We loved talking to David K. Shipler so much that we wanted to squeeze one more show out of our conversation.  We talked so much on our last episode about the role of interpreters in journalism, but we also talked about going from fiction to nonfiction and the importance of good journalism, now more than ever. We hope you enjoy as much as we did.   Find books mentioned on The Book Case:  https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/shop/story/book-case-podcast-reading-list-118433302   Books mentioned on this week's episode:  The Interpreter by David K. Shipler The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K. Shipler Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land by David K. Shipler The Rights of the People by David K. Shipler Freedom of Speech: Mightier Than the Sword by David K. Shipler Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams by David K. Shipler A Country of Strangers: Black and White in America by David K. Shipler Rights at Risk: The Limits of Liberty in Modern America by David K. Shipler Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy Without Honor: Defeat in Vietnam and Cambodia by Arnold R. Isaacs The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien The Street Without Joy by Bernard B. Fall Shrapnel in the Heart: Letters and Remembrances from the Vietnam Memorial by Laura Palmer When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman’s Journey from War to Peace by Le Ly Hayslip Dust Child by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Welcome to the bookcase. I am the Kate Gibson part, and welcome to the part two of two, David K. Schipler, the sequel. Who is my co-host? Oh, Charlie Gibson. I'm sorry. I'm so used to waiting in the wings while you talk. Yes, it is David K. Shippler.

0:57.4

We talked to David last week about the book, which is called The Interpreter.

1:01.9

And we really talked about how interesting the role of the interpreter is.

1:06.9

For a reporter who comes into a country and does not speak the native language,

1:10.7

the interpreter he had in Vietnam in the latter days of the Vietnam War.

1:15.8

And the book is largely based on that interpreter.

1:18.5

But it is a fictionalized version, and it's a really, really good book, I think.

1:23.5

And Kate does too.

1:24.4

I don't mean to speak for you, but yeah, I do mean to speak for you.

1:27.6

Sometimes you do that, and I just kind of sit and smile and say, uh-huh.

1:31.4

No, you don't usually say uh-huh. You say you normally say, dad, shut up.

1:37.3

But anyway, it is a wonderful book. But we also talk to David Chippler about writing, about making the transition from nonfiction,

1:45.7

which has been all of his writing so far, to writing his first book at the age of 83, his

1:51.3

first fiction book, which is the interpreter.

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