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You'll Float Away On The Warm Waters Of 'The Starless Sea'

7:00am November 03, 2019

by Amal El-Mohtar

Erin Morgenstern's long-awaited followup to The Night Circus imagines a world of magical doors leading to a literal underground sea — surrounded by layers of pleasurable mystery and mythography.

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Book: 'Faith In American Public Life'

5:12pm November 02, 2019

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with author Melissa Rogers, who served as Special Assistant to President Obama and Executive Director of the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

Nesma (left) and Anys are Algerian siblings who came out to each other at a party. They live in Paris, and both identify as queer. "It now makes us stronger and committed together for the queer and Algerian causes," Anys says.

'Un-African'? Photos Challenge Notions Of LGBTQ Identity In The African Diaspora

12:55pm November 02, 2019

by Isabella Gomez Sarmiento

Mikael Owunna's new book captures the stories of LGBTQ African immigrants, refugees and asylum-seekers reconciling their identity and their heritage.

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Margaret Wilkerson Sexton On 'The Revisioners'

7:57am November 02, 2019

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton tells NPR's Scott Simon about her book The Revisioners, which reached across a century to tell the story of generations of women in a family line.

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'On Swift Horses,' Shannon Pufahl's Celebration Of Her Grandmother

7:57am November 02, 2019

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Shannon Pufahl about her debut novel, On Swift Horses, a celebration of her grandmother featuring gamblers, ponies, card sharks and unfinished highways of the West.

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Kevin Wilson Is On Fire In 'Nothing To See Here'

7:00am November 02, 2019

by Heller McAlpin

Wilson's new novel centers on a young woman taking care of two kids with a disturbing ability: When upset, they burst into flames. But in Wilson's hands, what could be scary is funny, even beautiful.

As of Friday, Macmillan Publishers Ltd. is drastically restricting the sales of eBooks to libraries.

You May Have To Wait To Borrow A New E-Book From The Library

8:03pm November 01, 2019

by Lynn Neary

Macmillan Publishers Ltd. will begin restricting sales of new e-books to libraries to one per library system for the first eight weeks after publication. Libraries are fighting back.

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Punk Icon And Memoirist Viv Albertine On A Lifetime Of Fighting The Patriarchy

2:18pm November 01, 2019

by Terry Gross

"We weren't going to try and be this constructed ideal of femininity," the Slit's guitarist says of the band. Albertine's memoir is To Throw Away Unopened. Originally broadcast July 16, 2018.

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A giant tortoise on Santa Cruz Island in the Galapagos Islands.

'On The Backs Of Tortoises' Challenges Us To Consider How Much Of Life Is Intertwined

10:48am November 01, 2019

by Genevieve Valentine

Nominally an environmental and social history of the Galápagos Islands, it lays bare the entangled issues confronting us as we attempt conservation efforts while facing a sweeping ecological crisis.

Dafne Keen as Lyra (alongside her daemon Pantalaimon) in HBO's new adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy.

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'His Dark Materials' Producer Jane Tranter Stays True To The Story

7:08pm October 31, 2019

by Audie Cornish

Where will HBO go next after Game of Thrones? The network is betting on a big-budget adaptation of Philip Pullman's classic His Dark Materials trilogy, helmed by veteran TV producer Jane Tranter.

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