Ta-Nehisi Coates on writing's role in politics

Take a look back at some interviews with great authors that stopped by The Daily Show.

Jon Stewart talks book tour fashion with humorist David Sedaris and the day-to-day of revolutionaries with historian David McCullough. Trevor Noah talks to Roxane Gay about her memoir and life. Jon talks pessimism with David Rakoff, and American history with Sarah Vowell, and grapples with big ideas with Ta-Nehisi Coates.

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