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Trump Tells Woodward He Deliberately Downplayed Coronavirus Threat

1:28pm September 10, 2020

A new book by Bob Woodward reveals that President Trump thought the threat posed by the coronavirus was much worse than what he revealed publicly. Woodward's book Rage is due out next week.

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Raz's Book Tracks How Inspiring Entrepreneurs Created Paths To Success

6:24am September 10, 2020

NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with NPR's Guy Raz about his book on successful entrepreneurs: How I Built This: The Unexpected Paths to Success from the World's Most Inspiring Entrepreneurs.

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News Brief: Oregon Wildfire, Bob Woodward Book, DHS Whistleblower,

6:02am September 10, 2020

Wildfires burn in every region of Oregon. New book says President Trump downplayed seriousness of COVID-19. And, whistleblower says Homeland Security told him to stop reporting on Russia threat.

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President Trump addresses a campaign rally Tuesday in Winston-Salem, N.C.

Trump Consistently Bends Reality, Sells His Narrative In Interviews For Woodward Book

6:05pm September 09, 2020

by Ron Elving

"I still like playing it down, because I don't want to create a panic," Bob Woodward quotes Trump as saying of COVID-19 in his book "Rage." The author concludes: "Trump is the wrong man for the job."

The Revelations In Bob Woodward's Book 'Rage'

4:28pm September 09, 2020

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Robert Costa, The Washington Post reporter and host of PBS' Washington Week, about the revelations in journalist Bob Woodward's book Rage.

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Yaa Gyasi On 'Transcendent Kingdom' And Communing With Our Childhood Selves

4:24pm September 09, 2020

by Bethany Chafin

The award-winning author of Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi, has just published her second novel titled&nbsp

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Yaa Gyasi's first novel, Homegoing, won a National Book Critics Circle Award and a PEN/Hemingway Award. Her latest is Transcendent Kingdom.

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Author Yaa Gyasi Says Writing Can Be 'An Act Of Love And Justice'

12:52pm September 09, 2020

by Terry Gross

Gyasi's debut novel, Homegoing, won a PEN/Hemingway Award. Her follow-up, Transcendent Kingdom, draws on Gyasi's life as the daughter of immigrants from Ghana.

Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger, by Lisa Donovan

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'Our Lady Of Perpetual Hunger' Is A Savory Memoir Of Food, Work And Love

9:36am September 09, 2020

by Maureen Corrigan

Southern pastry chef Lisa Donovan chronicles her messy, decades-long process of coming to own her worth in a smart and vulnerable new memoir.

What Are You Going Through, by Sigrid Nunez

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Attachment Brings Joy, And Inevitably, Loss In 'What Are You Going Through'

7:13am September 09, 2020

by Heller McAlpin

Sigrid Nunez's new novel follows an unnamed narrator who agrees to keep a dying friend company until the end — but despite encompassing all kinds of sadness, the story is never grim.

Former FBI Agent Addresses Post-Sept. 11 Torture In Newly Declassified Book

1:56pm September 08, 2020

by Dave Davies

Ali Soufan investigated terrorism cases and opposed the CIA's use of torture following the Sept. 11 terror attacks. After a legal battle, the redacted material in his 2011 memoir, Black Banners, has been restored.

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