I was deep in the mountains last week, researching settings of some last dramatic scenes in this novel I’m about to nail. I’m keenly aware of how this first draft is still flexible, molded by all manner of surprises I run across. Soon it will feel fixed and certain, the only novel it ever could have been. Like our lives, I guess. | Barbara Kingsolver

In Case You Missed It: Author Barbara Kingsolver joined #Oprah for a sit down conversation about "Demon Copperhead," the latest #OprahsBookClub pick 📚 It turns out that Kingsolver made her way into the writing of Demon Copperhead while seated at the desk of Charles Dickens, who wrote David Copperfield, on which her book was modeled. Watch their full conversation here 👉🏾 https://trib.al/R5fExT4 | Oprah Daily

In the early 1980s, young journalist @barbara.kingsolver wrote the true story of an Arizona miners strike. Now, the Pulitzer Prize winning writer’s book will be published in the UK for the first time. She tells #R4Today how the stories of unsung heroes inspire her work. The Today Programme | Listen on BBC Sounds | BBC Radio 4

Today’s Best of the National Book Festival features author and National Humanities Medal recipient, Barbara Kingsolver, discussing her works "The Poisonwood Bible" and "Unsheltered" in 2019. Watch the full video on the National Book Festival blog at http://blogs.loc.gov/national-book-festival/2020/04/best-of-the-national-book-festival-barbara-kingsolver-2019/?loclr=fbloc | The Library of Congress

"We have a generation of kids growing up without parents - they are incarcerated, addicted or dead." Pulitzer-winning writer Barbara Kingsolver tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy about America's opioid crisis and the impact it has on rural communities, in this week's Ways to Change the World podcast. | Channel 4 News

What did Donald Trump say to Barbara Walters back in 1987? Don't forget #ABC2020 tonight! | ABC 20/20

Welcome to our final discussion of “Demon Copperhead.” Was your heart racing reading those final chapters? Barbara Kingsolver truly leaves it all on the table while portraying the ravages of addiction and its impact on Demon and his community. The line that most spoke to Oprah’s heart in these chapters was this one: “What matters in a story is the heart of its hero.” When was the last time we read a novel with a heart as big and as resilient as Demon’s? And it was exhilarating to find out that D