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Sean Sherman is the co-founder of the Minneapolis restaurant, Owamni.

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The Sioux Chef uses only native ingredients, but isn't 'cooking like it's 1491'

3:29pm October 24, 2022

by Sam Briger

You won't find wheat, dairy or sugar at Sean Sherman's award-winning Minneapolis restaurant. The menu has been "decolonized," but that doesn't mean it feels antiquated.

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"You like it? Is it too much? It's not too much, right?" Rhaenyra (Emma D'Arcy) zazzes up Dragonstone with a statement piece.

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'House of the Dragon' episode 10: Dance, dragons, dance

3:07pm October 24, 2022

by Glen Weldon

In the season finale of HBO's Game of Thrones spinoff, Rhaenyra assesses her position and the skies over Westeros become less than friendly.

Salman Rushdie has lost sight in one eye and the use of one hand, his agent says

2:56pm October 24, 2022

by The Associated Press

Literary agent Andrew Wylie told newspaper El Pais that Rushdie suffered three serious wounds to his neck and 15 more wounds to his chest and torso after a stabbing attack in August.

The Year of the Puppy, by Alexandra Horowitz

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A canine psychologist with a new puppy explores 'how dogs become themselves'

11:02am October 24, 2022

by Maureen Corrigan

Alexandra Horowitz is an authority on how dogs perceive the world, but her new book is not a training manual. In The Year of the Puppy, she says there's plenty she doesn't know about canine cognition.

Bob Woodward's new audiobook features hours of his interviews with ex-President Trump

5:06am October 24, 2022

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Bob Woodward about his recorded interviews with former President Donald Trump, which are featured in The Washington Post journalist's new audio book: The Trump Tapes.

Woodward's taped time with Trump reveals much about both the author and his subject

2:01pm October 23, 2022

by Ron Elving

We hear the former president striving to court Woodward's favor, praising him as "a great historian" and "the great Bob Woodward." Yet these interviews veer often into disagreements and even debates.

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A new book of short stories twists familiar moments in unexpected and chilling ways

7:54am October 23, 2022

by Ayesha Rascoe

Samanta Schweblin's new short stories take place against familiar everyday scenes. But she twists and turns those moments in unexpected and chilling ways. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with the author.

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A new bookstore in Louisville, KY specializes in horror novels

7:54am October 23, 2022

by Ayesha Rascoe

Jenny Kiefer is the owner of Butcher Cabin Books in Louisville, KY. The new bookstore specializes in horror novels.

In her debut graphic novel, Numb To This, Kindra Neely shares the mental toll that surviving a mass shooting left her.

She survived a mass shooting — then created a graphic novel to help others

7:01am October 23, 2022

In Kindra Neely's debut graphic novel, Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting, she opens up about surviving a mass shooting and dealing with the aftermath.

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Dani Shapiro on her new novel 'Signal Fires'

8:23am October 22, 2022

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Dani Shapiro about her new novel, "Signal Fires," which follows how lives in one neighborhood change following a car accident in 1985.