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Jason Mott is among the winners of the 2021 National Book Awards

5:45am November 18, 2021

by Neda Ulaby

Comedian Phoebe Robinson hosted the 2021 National Book Awards ceremony over Zoom Wednesday night. Jason Mott won the fiction prize for Hell of a book. Tiya Miles was the winner for nonfiction.

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Nikole Hannah-Jones won a MacArthur "Genius" Grant in 2017. She is a tenured faculty member at Howard University.

'1619 Project' journalist says Black people shouldn't be an asterisk in U.S. history

1:25pm November 17, 2021

by Arun Venugopal

Nikole Hannah-Jones says the contributions of Black people are often left out of the American story. Her mission is to reframe U.S. history through the lens of slavery.

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3 books our poetry reviewer Tess Taylor is excited about

4:52pm November 16, 2021

Poetry reviewer Tess Taylor talks about her recommendations for some new books by poets: Generations by Lucille Clifton, Two Murals by Jesus Castillo and The Curious Thing by Sandra Lim.

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Blair Braverman is a contributing editor to Outside Magazine. She's also appeared on the Discovery reality show Naked and Afraid, in which she and a partner were left in a remote area of South Africa without clothes, food or water for three weeks.

Don't get dragged! Iditarod musher shares tales from the trail

1:17pm November 16, 2021

by Dave Davies

Blair Braverman says if she lets go of the sled, the dogs will race on without her. The question, she says, is not how to get sled dogs to go. Rather, it's how do you get them to stop?

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Trump supporters clash with police and security forces during the insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

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ABC's Jonathan Karl details Trump's efforts to overturn the election in 'Betrayal'

12:51pm November 16, 2021

by James Doubek

The new book from ABC News' chief Washington correspondent focuses on how Trump worked to overturn the election — but Karl also has a message about the rally at the Capitol that became a riot.

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Karl's new book 'Betrayal' begins where 'Front Row at the Trump Show' left off

6:08am November 16, 2021

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Jonathan Karl about his latest book on former President Donald Trump and his final months in office when he purged anyone he deemed disloyal.

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Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show, by Jonathan Karl

In 'Betrayal,' ABC's Jonathan Karl asks: 'Must the Trump show go on?'

3:14pm November 15, 2021

by Ron Elving

Karl notes often that Trump continues his campaign to invalidate the 2020 election — even now. The "Trump show" remains very much on stage, finding an audience and threatening to extend its run.

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Memoir explores how racism and violence impacted 'Three Girls from Bronzeville'

1:25pm November 15, 2021

by Terry Gross

Journalist Dawn Turner revisits her own past, and tells the story of her sister, who died at 24 from chronic alcoholism, and her childhood best friend, who served 20 years in prison for murder.

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Fall is filled with celebrity memoirs. Read tales from stage and screen

11:19am November 15, 2021

by Mia Estrada

There are many paths to fame. You can read several this fall, as there are a number of celebrity memoirs hitting shelves — books from Mel Brooks and Jamie Foxx to Will Smith and Drew Barrymore.

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'The Island Of Missing Trees' is Elif Shafak's latest novel

6:03am November 15, 2021

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Elif Shafak about her book, "The Island of Missing Trees." It's about the trauma of civil war imperiling future generations.

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