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Chanel Miller's new children's novel follows lost socks in New York City

8:06am April 21, 2024

by Andrew Limbong

Chanel Miller talks about her new book for children, "Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All." Set in New York City, it's about a little girl and her friend who reunite people with their lost socks.

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Writer Caoilinn Hughes on 'The Alternatives'

5:36pm April 20, 2024

NPR's Andrew Limbong talks to Irish writer Caoilinn Hughes, whose new novel explores the bonds of sisterhood and the ways those bonds can be tested.

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<em>My Lost Freedom</em>, written by George Takei and illustrated by Michelle Lee

George Takei 'Lost Freedom' some 80 years ago – now he's written that story for kids

8:00am April 20, 2024

by Samantha Balaban

When actor George Takei was 4 years old, he was labeled an "enemy" by the U.S. government and sent to a string of incarceration camps. His new children's book about that time is My Lost Freedom.

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Allen Bratton's 'Henry Henry' gives the Shakespearan character a modern twist

8:00am April 20, 2024

by Scott Simon

In "Henry Henry," Shakespeare's Prince Hal gets a modern, queer recast. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Allen Bratton about his debut novel.

Cookbook author Joan Nathan looks at her own culinary history in 'My Life in Recipes'

6:52pm April 19, 2024

Joan Nathan has spent her life exploring Jewish culture through recipes. Now in her 80s, her new book is her most personal work yet — excavating her own culinary history.

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Salman Rushdie tells of the violent attack that nearly killed him in memoir 'Knife'

5:56pm April 18, 2024

In his new memoir, Salman Rushdie writes about the young man who leapt from the audience and stabbed and almost killed him in August of 2022. He also describes his love for his wife, Eliza.

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'When I Think of You' could be a ripped-from-the-headlines Hollywood romance

1:07pm April 18, 2024

by Carole V. Bell

Myah Ariel's debut is like a fizzy, angsty mash-up of Bolu Babalola and Kennedy Ryan as the challenges of doing meaningful work in Hollywood threaten two young lovers' romantic reunion.

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Author Salman Rushdie On Surviving Attack and The Value of Every Day of Life

4:33pm April 17, 2024

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Salman Rushdie about his new book, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder.

In Alua Arthur's 2023 TED Talk, she said her ideal death would happen at sunset.

Death doula says life is more meaningful if you 'get real' about the end

1:22pm April 17, 2024

by Tonya Mosley

Alua Arthur helps people plan for death. A big part of her work is helping them reconcile the lives they lived with the lives they might have wanted. Her memoir is called Briefly Perfectly Human.

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Salman Rushdie says writing Knife allowed him to change his relationship to the attack. "Instead of just being the person who got stabbed, I now see myself as the person who wrote a book about getting stabbed," he says.

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Two nights before the attack, Salman Rushdie dreamed he was stabbed onstage

12:05pm April 17, 2024

by Terry Gross

Rushdie was onstage at a literary event in 2022 when he was attacked by a man in the audience: "Dying in the company of strangers — that was what was going through my mind." His new book is Knife.

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