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Gentrifier: A Memoir, by Anne Elizabeth Moore

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'Gentrifier' crafts a narrative about Detroit in darkly comic vignettes

1:22pm October 20, 2021

by Kristen Martin

Culture critic Anne Elizabeth Moore's project is also an investigation of the costs — monetary, psychological, ethical — of the free house she was given for writing, and an ode to her neighbors.

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Author profiles workers who were laid off when their jobs went to Mexico

7:52am October 20, 2021

An Indiana steel plant closed in 2017 and hundreds of jobs went to Mexico. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Farah Stockman about her book: American Made — What Happens to People when Work Disappears.

Billy Porter attends the 2020 Vanity Fair Oscar Party. "Fabulous and serious can go hand in hand. I am proof positive of that," he says.

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Billy Porter makes peace with himself: 'I set myself free, honey. No more secrets'

4:21pm October 19, 2021

by Terry Gross

Fourteen years after his initial diagnosis, the Pose actor revealed publicly that he is HIV-positive. Porter says being open about his health status felt like a rebirth. His new memoir is Unprotected.

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Lucy Barton returns — and reconnects with an old love — in 'Oh William!'

8:57am October 19, 2021

by Heller McAlpin

Lucy Barton — the redoubtable memoirist we've met in two previous novels — returns in Elizabeth Strout's Oh William!, reconnecting with her estranged first husband after her second husband dies.

How Not to Be Afraid of Everything, by Jane Wong

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This book of poetry says, 'I have fists,' and the world needs to know

7:52am October 19, 2021

by Jeevika Verma

Chinese American poet Jane Wong's new collection, How Not to Be Afraid of Everything, grapples with fear and anger at her family's silence about what they suffered in China's Great Leap Forward.

Primatologist Jane Goodall is honored for her lifetime achievements at a ceremony on her 85th birthday at City Hall in Los Angeles on April 3, 2019.

Jane Goodall encourages all to act to save Earth in 'The Book of Hope'

7:40am October 19, 2021

by Barbara J. King

The primatologist says it's crucial that young people know how positive action can still shift the frightening trajectories of climate crisis, biodiversity loss, and the ongoing global pandemic.

The writer Carmen Mola, pseudonym of the writers Jorge Diaz, Agustin Martinez and Antonio Mercero, winner of the 70th edition of the Planeta Novel Prize, gives a press conference after the award ceremony, at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, on 15 Oc

Carmen Mola was a popular Spanish novelist. Three male writers made her up

3:14pm October 18, 2021

by Joe Hernandez

Antonio Mercero, Agustín Martínez and Jorge Díaz not only created a series of highly successful novels in Mola's name, but also invented the author herself.

Dr. Jane Goodall in 2019. She has co-authored a new book, The Book Of Hope.

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As Jane Goodall grieves climate change, she finds hope in young people's advocacy

1:35pm October 18, 2021

by Nell Clark

The world-renowned primatologist explains how small acts to protect the planet can spiral upwards. She has a new book, co-authored by Douglas Abrams, called The Book of Hope.

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Jamie Foxx, out with a new book, talks childhood, therapy and parenting

5:04pm October 17, 2021

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with award-winning actor and musician Jamie Foxx about his new book, Act Like You Got Some Sense: And Other Things My Daughters Taught Me.

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Drew Magary processes his recovery from a traumatic brain injury in a new memoir

7:54am October 17, 2021

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro humorist and novelist Drew Magary about his new book, "The Night The Lights Went Out," about his harrowing recovery from a brain injury.