Sapphire

In this national pledge special, Kurt Andersen talks with the writer Sapphire about her novel The Kid. The comedian Patton Oswalt breaks down the universe to its three essential pa...

When you’ve invested hours in the lives of characters in a book, you naturally imagine what becomes of them after the last page.  The novelist Sapphire has done the same, in a sequel ...

Sapphire, the author of Push and The Kid, tells us what she enjoys reading in her spare time and more!

Sapphire, author of the novel Push, which became the screenplay for "Precious," talks about her latest novel, The Kid. It tells the story of Abdul Jones, the son of Precious, the heroine of Push, orphaned at 9 and left alone to navigate a violent world in which love and hate sometimes intertwine.

[Watch the trailer for the just-released film "Precious"] Before it was a film, "Precious" was a screenplay. And before it was a screenplay, it was a novel called "Pu...