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Stories in 'Sidle Creek' offer an insider look at Appalachia

9:36am May 17, 2023

by Ilana Masad

The 22 stories in Sidle Creek charm, surprise, and convey a deep love of the people and place — the Appalachian plateau of western Pennsylvania — that author Jolene McIlwain has long called home.

Podcast tile art for More Perfect, from WNYC Studios; Ten Thousand Things, from KUOW; Rightnowish, from KQED; Seeking A Scientist, from KCUR; Embedded, from NPR; Sea Change, from WWNO, WRKF and PRX.

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Can't-miss public media podcasts to listen to in May

9:19am May 17, 2023

by The NPR One Team

Need a new podcast? The NPR One team has gathered a few returning favorites as well as some fresh releases from across public media.

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Author R.F. Kuang on unlikable narrators and cultural appropriation in 'Yellowface'

5:24pm May 16, 2023

R.F. Kuang talks about her new novel Yellowface and why she wanted to write a book about cultural appropriation in the publishing world.

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R.F. Kuang says fiction should be about imagining outside our own perspective.

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She wants fiction writers to step outside their experiences. Even if it's messy

5:09pm May 16, 2023

by Manuela López Restrepo

R.F. Kuang's novel Yellowface offers a literary exploration of cultural appropriation taken to a new degree.

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Trevor Noah, Judy Woodruff among speakers planned for Triad appearances in 2023-24

3:51pm May 16, 2023

by Turner Jones

Wake Forest University and Guilford College have both announced the line-up for the upcoming 2023-24 seasons of their respective speaker series.

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Move over Studs Terkel: Obama's on the job in Netflix's modern take on 'Working'

1:46pm May 16, 2023

by David Bianculli

Hosted by the former president, this documentary series is a modern take on Terkel's influential 1974 book of interviews, cataloging the concerns of people on all levels of the economic scale.

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Samantha Irby's new memoir is Quietly Hostile. Her previous books include Meaty; New Year, Same Trash; We Are Never Meeting in Real Life; and Wow, No Thank You.

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'Quietly Hostile' is Samantha Irby's survival guide (of sorts)

12:43pm May 16, 2023

by Tonya Mosley

Irby shares almost everything in her new book of essays, Quietly Hostile but, she says, "If I can't have a conversation with a stranger about the thing that I wrote, I won't put it in a book."

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Martha Stewart is the oldest cover model ever for a 'Sports Illustrated' swim issue

11:18am May 16, 2023

by Ayana Archie

The magazine called her a true influencer, with her variety of lifestyle books, television shows, and product lines. Stewart said on Instagram that she wants to inspire people to try new things.

Joel Edgerton plays a horticulturist with a secret past as a white nationalist in Master Gardener.

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Actor Joel Edgerton avoids conflict in real life, but embraces it on-screen

11:14am May 16, 2023

by Terry Gross

Edgerton stars as a horticulturist with a secret past as a white nationalist in Master Gardener. He says director Paul Schrader challenged him be "less of an actor" in the role.

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'The Three of Us' tracks a married couple and the wife's manipulative best friend

10:46am May 16, 2023

by Heller McAlpin

We've seen jealous, possessive friends and housewreckers with no boundaries before, though perhaps not quite so thoroughly, unapologetically unlikeable as in Ore Agbaje-Williams's debut novel.