Melissa Gray
Melissa Gray is a senior producer for Weekend Edition.
She got her start in public radio at WUGA in Athens, Georgia. Since joining NPR in 1999, she's written, produced, reported and edited thousands of stories and interviews. She's also directed all of the news magazines at one time or another.
Gray is known for her enthusiasm, wit and curiosity. She's especially proud of the Weekend Edition series "Outbreak Voices," which featured everyday Americans sharing their experiences during the first 2 years of the pandemic.
An avid reader, she contributes unfailingly to "Books We Love," and is also the author of "All Cakes Considered," a cookbook documenting the various experiments she conducted on the non-complaining staff of NPR's flagship news magazine.
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High prices are straining budgets for both a small business owner and a single mom in a rural part of Va.'s 1st Congressional district. They explain how they're handling the economic stress of these times. -
We take a moment to remember former NPR audio engineer Brian Jarboe, who died on Monday. As a colleague, he was kind, agile and skilled in the studio — and he always had a guitar pick on him.
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As Jane Austen fans celebrate the 250th anniversary of her birth, they also celebrate her characters. -
NPR staff share recommendations for non-fiction reading from our Books We Love list: "The War of Art," "Shattered Lands," "Toni at Random" and "Patchwork."
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Why do the works of Jane Austen still hold so much appeal 250 years after her birth? We ask members of the Jane Austen Society of North America as well as writers Sandra Cisneros and Brandon Taylor. -
A less-than-easy quest for a place to live after the housing crisis implodes. NPR's Adrian Ma talks with Emily Hunt Kivel about her surreal and funny debut novel, "Dwelling."
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Summer's lease hath all too short a date, so better get your reading on! NPR staffers share some recommendations from our "Books We Love" list.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen, authors of "Pseudoscience," about why people want to believe in things like Bigfoot, palm reading, and spontaneous human combustion.
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Promising violinists can get their hands on a Stradivarius and other 18th century instruments through a lending program out of Chicago.
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In the world of true crime, Fall River, Mass. is known for Lizzie Borden, but another murder 60 years earlier captivated New England. Kate Winkler Dawson tells the story in The Sinners All Bow.
