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'Gone to the Wolves' masterfully portrays the heavy metal scene of the '80s and '90s

1:54pm May 04, 2023

by Ilana Masad

John Wray's latest novel is a powerful and juicy story about a particular time, subculture, and the ways people can find themselves in — or can deliberately disappear into — fandom.

Gabriel García Márquez attends a Latin American film festival in Havana, on Dec. 5, 2006. A previously unpublished novel by the late Colombian author is due out next year.

An unpublished novel by Gabriel García Márquez is set for release next year

5:00am May 04, 2023

by Joe Hernandez

Arriving 10 years after the author's death, the roughly 150-page novel will contain five sections centered around a character named Ana Magdalena Bach.

Alexandra Auder's memoir is Don't Call Me Home.

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Daughter of Warhol star looks back on a bohemian childhood in the Chelsea Hotel

1:39pm May 03, 2023

by Terry Gross

Alexandra Auder's mother, Viva, was one of Andy Warhol's muses. Auder's memoir, Don't Call Me Home, describes her early life in the Chelsea Hotel, in a world of underground artists and "weirdos."

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'Shy' follows the interior monologue of a troubled teen boy

10:24am May 03, 2023

by Heller McAlpin

Max Porter's compulsively readable primal scream of a novel offers a compassionate portrait of boy jerked around by uncontrollable mood swings that lead to self-sabotaging decisions.

Meghan Trainor gives TMI advice on motherhood in her new book

4:44pm May 02, 2023

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Meghan Trainor about her new book Dear Future Mama. Grammy-winning singer-songwriter recently became a new mom.

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Author-illustrator Vashti Harrison wants her book and the word 'big' to affirm kids

4:44pm May 02, 2023

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Vashti Harrison, illustrator and author of the new picture book Big, about a young Black girl's journey to self love.

'The Covenant of Water' tells the story of three generations in South India

11:13am May 02, 2023

by Jenny Bhatt

Much will be written about Abraham Verghese's latest novel in the coming months and years; it's a literary feat that deserves to be lauded as much as those of the likes of Dickens and Eliot.

The author Jason Reynolds has a new novel out, Miles Morales Suspended.

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Author Jason Reynolds on book bans, racism and Spiderman

5:38am May 02, 2023

by Julie Depenbrock

In a sequel to Miles Morales: Spiderman, writer Jason Reynolds crafts a response to censorship in the classroom. He speaks to NPR's A Martinez about his second Spiderman novel.

Eastwind Books, an anchor for the SF Bay Area's Asian community, shuts its doors

5:33pm May 01, 2023

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Harvey and Beatrice Dong about the closing of their Berkeley shop Eastwind Books and the decades they've spent promoting Asian-American authors.

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Deepa Varadarajan on the humor and humanity of rediscovery in 'Late Bloomers'

4:26pm May 01, 2023

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with author Deepa Varadarajan about her debut novel Late Bloomers.