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'I Can't Save You' is a tale of a doctor's struggle to save himself, and others

9:18am April 04, 2023

by Thúy Đinh

Anthony Chin-Quee captures the space between medicine's all-consuming demands and its practitioners' fallibility in a cautionary tale of his own mental and physical struggles as a Black physician.

Women now dominate the book business. Why there and not other creative industries?

6:31am April 04, 2023

by Greg Rosalsky

A new study finds that women are excelling in the book business. Yet, they still lag in other creative industries. We search for an explanation why.

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Nicole Chung follows 'All You Can Ever Know' with 2nd memoir 'A Living Remedy'

5:10am April 04, 2023

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Nicole Chung about her new memoir: A Living Remedy.

'Armageddon' shows how literal readings of the Bible's end times affect modern times

2:05pm April 03, 2023

by Terry Gross

Bible scholar Bart Ehrman says interpretations of the Book of Revelation have created disastrous problems — from personal psychological damage to consequences for foreign policy and the environment.

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A new book about grief has its roots in the long-lost diaries of a 9/11 victim

12:27pm April 03, 2023

Bobby McIlvaine was killed on 9/11 at age 26. The Atlantic writer Jennifer Senior, who knew him, read his diaries. They were the basis for a Pulitzer Prize-winning essay that she's turned into a book.

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'A Living Remedy' tells a story of family, class and a daughter's grief

7:26am April 03, 2023

by Kristen Martin

In her first memoir All You Can Ever Know, Nicole Chung reflects on her adoption story. In her new book, she addresses family and class and her struggles to help her adoptive parents.

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Rachel Eve Moulton on her horror novel 'The Insatiable Volt Sisters'

8:20am April 02, 2023

by Ayesha Rascoe

A Victorian mansion on a Lake Erie island and half-sisters with a terrifying legacy: NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Rachel Eve Moulton about her new horror novel, "The Insatiable Volt Sisters."

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Artist Christine Suggs on their graphic novel 'Ay, Mija'

7:56am April 01, 2023

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with artist Christine Suggs about their new graphic novel, "Ay, Mija," which follows a teenager's first trip to Mexico to connect with relatives and their own heritage.

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5 mysteries and thrillers to transport you this spring

5:22am March 31, 2023

by Bethanne Patrick

As the weather improves around many parts of the U.S, grab some green space and sit down to let these books transport you to 1950s London, 1920s Manhattan, 21st-century Finland, and more.

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Richard Kammen was a defense attorney at Guantanamo Bay. Now he's written a novel

8:48am March 30, 2023

by Sacha Pfeiffer

Attorney Richard Kammen's new novel — Tortured Justice Guantánamo Bay — is partly based on his experience. He describes the justice system there as broken. Why didn't he go the nonfiction route?

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