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One Book 2020-2021 Educated by Tara Westover: Interviews and Reviews

Video Interviews

Podcasts

Memoirist Retraces Her Journey From Survivalist Childhood to Cambridge Ph.D.
From NPR 's Fresh Air
Tara Westover on Her Remarkable Life, From Survivalist Childhood to Cambridge Ph.D.
New York Times Book Review Podcast
From isolated homeschooling to a PhD from Cambridge: How Tara Westover was saved by her education
CBC Radio - The Current
Senator Chris Van Hollen On The Student Lead Push For Gun Control And Tara Westover, Author Of The New Memoir, “Educated”
The Diane Rehm Show
Tara Westover – Nothing Final Can Be Known
Think Again - a Big Think Podcast #141

Print Interviews

Left Behind: The Real Roots of the Urban/Rural Divide
Tara Westover in conversation with Jeffrey Goldberg in the Atlantic.
She Never Saw A Classroom Until College. Now She Has A Ph.D. And A Lot Of Thoughts About Education
Interview with Catherine Brown
Is School the Only Way to Get an Education? What Tara Westover learned from writing Educated
Writing the book Educated, says Tara Westover, “allowed me to reclaim some of my beautiful memories.” She shared a few of those reflections with Masthead members recently in an exclusive conversation about her book
“I Feel Like I’m Never Alone…I Am with My Phone, and Because of That, I Am with Everyone.”
Interview with Gretchen Rubin
Tara Westover: ‘In families like mine there is no crime worse than telling the truth.’
Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, The Guardian
Tara Westover Turns Her Isolated Childhood into the Gripping Memoir Educated
Erin Vanderhoof, Vanity Fair

Reviews of Educated