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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. ...  Show more

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