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'Believing' Is A Book Only Anita Hill Could Have Written

9:11am September 27, 2021

by Danielle Kurtzleben

Altogether, Believing is an elegant, impassioned demand that America see gender-based violence as a cultural and structural problem that hurts everyone, not just victims and survivors.

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Man Wrongfully Convicted In Central Park Five Case Discusses Memoir In Triad

10:28pm September 26, 2021

by Paul Garber

A man wrongfully convicted in connection with a horrific attack on a jogger in New York's Central Park has a new book out.

In his 30 years of sharing sex advice, Dan Savage has seen changes in how his audience communicates, what they ask and how opinions — even his — evolve.

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Dan Savage Looks At What Has Changed In The 30 Years He's Been Giving Sex Advice

10:24am September 25, 2021

Savage has a new book celebrating 30 years writing his sex advice column "Savage Love." He talked with NPR about where he's been wrong, what's changed and why gay people know more about sex.

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Ruth Ozeki Tackles Capitalism, Materialism And Neoliberalism In New Book

8:56am September 25, 2021

NPR's Scott Simon asks Ruth Ozeki about her new novel, The Book of Form and Emptiness.

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Anthony Doerr On The Spark That Inspired 'Cloud Cuckoo Land'

8:56am September 25, 2021

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with author Anthony Doerr about his latest novel, Cloud Cuckoo Land.

Before We Disappear, by Shaun David Hutchinson

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Fall Brings YA Historicals About Thieves And The Rapscallions Who Love Them

5:00am September 25, 2021

by Caitlyn Paxson

Both The City Beautiful and Before We Disappear feature young crooks getting by in big cities at the turn of the 19th century, one haunted by his past and the other trapped by his magic powers.

Novelist Edwidge Danticat: Allow Haitians To Determine Their Own Future

4:52pm September 24, 2021

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with award winning Haitian-American novelist Edwidge Danticat about the challenges in Haiti.

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Kat Chow's 'Seeing Ghosts' Is A Memoir Of Grief And Joy

6:00am September 24, 2021

by Bethany Chafin

Author and journalist Kat Chow writes in her new memoir, "Seeing Ghosts," that “grief is a container of contradictions.” Chow explores that gr

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Communication Is The Challenge In This Novel Of Loss And Discovery

5:00am September 23, 2021

by Lily Meyer

Jon McGregor's new novel follows an expedition guide who suffers a stroke in the middle of an Antarctic ice storm and loses the ability to speak — and the people around him at a loss for what to say.

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Richard Powers' Book 'Bewilderment' Explores Life On And Beyond Earth

4:29pm September 22, 2021

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with novelist Richard Powers about his new book, Bewilderment, about a widowed father and his son trying to make sense of the world.