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October Book-Ahead: What We're Excited To Read Next Month

11:05am September 28, 2021

by Meghan Collins Sullivan

October has plans to bring us some new works from established authors — and some attention-grabbing books from new ones. Here are some of the books we're excited about coming next month.

Anita Hill teaches courses on gender, race, social policy and legal history at Brandeis University.

Anita Hill Started A Conversation About Sexual Harassment. She's Not Done Yet

9:39am September 28, 2021

by Terry Gross

Hill doesn't regret testifying against Clarence Thomas during his 1991 Supreme Court confirmation hearing: "There is victory in being able to come forward and state what has happened to you."

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Anthony Doerr's New Novel Spans Centuries, Yet Fits Together Like Clockwork

7:00am September 28, 2021

by Jason Sheehan

Cloud Cuckoo Land follows four people in very different times and places, all connected by an imaginary manuscript — also called "Cloud Cuckoo Land" — by a real author, the philosopher Diogenes.

How Our Brains Create Meaning From The Sounds Around Us

5:39pm September 27, 2021

How do our brains create meaning from the sounds around us? That is the question at the heart of a new book from neuroscientist Nina Kraus, called Of Sound Mind.

'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.