Catherine Coldstream spoke with Terry Gross about her years as nun in a Carmelite monastery. She talks about what drew her to the vocation, what it was like to live a silent and obedient life, and why she ran away. Her memoir is called Cloistered. Maureen Corrigan reviews Percival Everett's new novel, James. It's a reimagining of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. When Mark Daley and his husband became foster parents to two brothers, they fell in love with the children right away. But they also knew that their family could change at any moment. Eventually, the boys were reunified with their biological parents. Daley's memoir is Safe: A Memoir of Fatherhood, Foster Care, and the Risks We Take for Family. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
On the Ted radio hour, linguist Ann.
Curzan says she gets a lot of complaints about people using the pronoun they to refer to one person.
I sometimes get into arguments with people where they will say to me, but it can't be singular.
And I will say, but it is.
The history behind words causing a lot of debate.
That's on the Ted radio hour from NPR.
From why yy in Philadelphia, I'm Terry Gross with fresh air weekend.
Today, poverty, chastity, obedience and rebellion.
We talk with Kathryn Coldstream about her years as a nun in a cloistered carmelite monastery, the beauty of the silence and prayer and the loneliness when her idealism and intellectualism were frowned on.
After ten years, she ran away.
She's written a memoir.
Also, we hear from Mark Daley.
He and his husband wanted children.
Their choices were surrogacy, private adoption, which can take years, or becoming foster parents.
They decided to foster.
He's written a memoir about fostering two young children who suffered trauma.
And Maureen Corrigan reviews Percival Everett's new novel James.
It's a reimagining of Mark Twain's the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Everett's 2001 novel Erasure was adapted into the recent film american fiction.
That's coming up on Fresh Air weekend.