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New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin's new book collects his reporting on the media

7:58am February 10, 2024

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon asks writer Calvin Trillin about his new collection of reporting on reporters. It's called "The Lede: Dispatches from a Life in the Press."

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Yangsze Choo on her new novel 'The Fox Wife'

7:58am February 10, 2024

by Scott Simon

A fox's spirit, able to take the form of a woman, hunts for the man who killed her daughter in Yangsze Choo's new novel. Choo talks with NPR's Scott Simon about "The Fox Wife."

Covers of five books with over-50 female protagonists.

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Move over, senior center — these 5 books center seniors

7:00am February 10, 2024

by Heller McAlpin

These books, including Roxana Robinson's Leaving, which comes out on Tuesday, all concern older women — some in their 60s, others in their 90s — who fully intend to enjoy all their years.

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Maurice Sendak delights children with new book, 12 years after his death

6:48am February 09, 2024

by Elizabeth Blair

Maurice Sendak's previously unpublished Ten Little Rabbits was released this week. On a visit to the late writer's home, we learned he whistled while he worked. (Story aired on ATC on 2/6/24.)

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A person dressed as Bigfoot makes their way through the snow during a blizzard in Boston in January 2015. John O'Connor's The Secret History of Bigfoot explores the myth and its lingering appeal.

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Is Bigfoot real? A new book dives deep into the legend

6:00am February 09, 2024

by Gabino Iglesias

The Secret History of Bigfoot is a smart, hilarious, and wonderfully immersive journey into the history of Bigfoot, the culture around it, the people who obsess about it, and the psychology behind it.

Robie Harris, who wrote an often-banned book about sexuality for kids, dies at 83

5:15pm February 08, 2024

by Neda Ulaby

Robie Harris' book about sexuality for kids called It's Perfectly Normal was often banned, but has sold more than a million copies. Harris died last month at 83 years old.

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Book covers of: Like Other Girls; The Dating Playbook; Before the Ever After; Snapped; The Redshirt: A Novel; The Right Swipe: A Novel

Pregame the Super Bowl with our favorite football fiction

10:46am February 08, 2024

by Beth Novey

Of course, leave it to the gigantic nerds at NPR to throw a literary tailgate ... but to thine own self be true, even if it means getting stuffed into your locker later this afternoon.

Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake perform at the Super Bowl halftime show in 2004.

Reexamining the 'upskirt decade' and the public ridicule of female pop stars

8:10am February 08, 2024

The new book Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s reassesses a time when popular culture policed, ridiculed and even took down a variety of women in the public eye.

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Covers of You Dreamed of Empires, Confrontations and A Woman of Pleasure.

Books from Mexico, Netherlands, and Japan bring rewrites of history, teen tales

6:01am February 08, 2024

by Lily Meyer

Books from writers Álvaro Enrigue, Simone Atangana Bekono, and Kiyoko Murata may not come from the same place — but they still work in conversation with each other.

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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe kicks off 'HBCU Made' book tour at WSSU

3:27pm February 07, 2024

by David Ford

Author and NPR Weekend Edition Sunday host Ayesha Rascoe talks with WFDD's David Ford about her new book HBCU Made: A Celebration of the Black College Experience.

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