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'Horror Movie' questions the motivation behind evil acts

10:03am June 12, 2024

by Gabino Iglesias

Paul Tremblay's latest tale is dark, surprisingly violent, and incredibly multilayered — a superb addition to his already impressive oeuvre showing he can deliver for fans and also push the envelope.

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Judge David Tatel on becoming the blind role model he never had

9:20pm June 11, 2024

NPR's Ari Shapiro sits down with retired D.C. Circuit judge David Tatel to talk about his new memoir "Vision."

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One woman's summer of pleasure in Paris

9:20pm June 11, 2024

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks to author Glynnis Macnicol about her new memoir, I’m Mostly Here To Enjoy Myself.

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Questlove on hip-hop, history and the first time he heard 'Rapper's Delight'

5:35pm June 11, 2024

by Terry Gross

The Roots bandleader says hearing The Sugarhill Gang's 1980 hit felt like a paradigm shift: "Suddenly they start talking in rhythmic poetry and we didn't know what to make of it."

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Queenie's second life on screen gives her more room to grow

5:08pm June 11, 2024

by Carole V. Bell

An irresistible new Hulu series follows the quarter-life growing pains of a lonely South Londoner. It's based on a 2019 novel by showrunner Candice Carty-Williams.

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An arresting memoir of 'Consent' asks: Does a marriage's end excuse its beginning?

3:20pm June 10, 2024

by Maureen Corrigan

Jill Ciment was 17 in 1970 when she got involved with the 47-year-old teacher who would become her husband. Now widowed, she reconsiders the relationship — and its "poisonous" beginnings.

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Actor Griffin Dunne revisits his Hollywood childhood in 'The Friday Afternoon Club'

3:20pm June 10, 2024

by Tonya Mosley

In a new memoir, Dunne writes about growing up in a family of storytellers, his complicated relationship with fame and the trauma the family experienced after the 1982 murder of his sister, Dominique.

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In 'Consent,' an author asks: 'Me too? Did I have the agency to consent?'

11:21am June 10, 2024

by Heller McAlpin

Jill Ciment wrote about a relationship she had with a teacher when she was very young – that turned into a marriage – in Half a Life. Now, eight years after his death at 93, she reconsiders their relationship in light of the #MToo movement.

What's a book ban anyway? Depends on who you ask

9:24am June 10, 2024

by Elizabeth Blair

The term "book ban" is used a lot in media and elsewhere when addressing the rise in challenges to certain books being allowed in schools and public libraries. But is it more political hyperbole or a censorship alarm bell?

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Nicola Yoon on her novel 'One of Our Kind' and trauma in Black American life

3:45pm June 09, 2024

Jasmyn Williams moves to an all-Black community, where everyone is suspiciously happy. Is it the spa treatments? NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Nicola Yoon about her new novel, "One of Our Kind."

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