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Peter Navarro, White House director of trade and manufacturing policy, has admitted quoting a fictional character in several of his nonfiction books.

White House Adviser Peter Navarro Calls Fictional Alter Ego An 'Inside Joke'

7:51pm October 18, 2019

by Scott Horsley

Peter Navarro, a key architect of President Trump's trade policy, made up one of the people the adviser repeatedly quotes in his nonfiction books. Navarro's publisher is not amused.

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Show People: A History of the Film Star, by Michael Newton

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Movies Cast A Spell In 'Show People'

4:34pm October 18, 2019

by Genevieve Valentine

Author Michael Newton waxes rhapsodic in his new book about a century of acting, with a special fondness for performances about performance; it's taken for granted how much we love movies.

No Stopping Us Now: The Adventures of Older Women in American History ,byGail Collins

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'Past Their Prime' At 20? Book Chronicles Attitudes Toward Female Aging In America

1:45pm October 18, 2019

by Heller McAlpin

Known for the punch of her columns, The New York Times' Gail Collins sprinkles conversational, sardonic asides throughout No Stopping Us Now in an effort to keep the decades-long hike spry.

'Geography of Risk' Calculates Who Pays When A Storm Comes To Shore

2:27pm October 17, 2019

by Dave Davies

Journalist Gilbert Gaul says federal subsidies encourage developers to keep building on the coasts — despite accelerating and increasing risks from climate change.

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Heading Out On The Ice With Adam Rippon

2:23pm October 17, 2019

In his new book, the figure skater opens up about his road to the Olympics and beyond.

Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me, by Adrienne Brodeur

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A Daughter Becomes An Accomplice To Her Mother's Affair In 'Wild Game'

2:06pm October 17, 2019

by Ilana Masad

As a teen, Adrienne Brodeur helped her mother keep a long-term affair a secret. In her memoir, she writes of realizing that being her mother's confidant didn't equal the unconditional love she sought.

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Lupita Nyong'o On 'Sulwe'

6:11am October 17, 2019

NPR's Noel King speaks with Lupita Nyong'o about her new children's book, Sulwe.

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Detail from the cover of Metropolitan Stories by Christine Coulson

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18th Century Butts, Moving Statues And Other 'Metropolitan Stories'

8:42pm October 16, 2019

Christine Coulson has written her debut novel about the hidden life of the place where she worked for 25 years: the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

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Actor Roger Moore, who played secret agent James Bond in the '70s and '80s, holds a martini. A new book written by a former CIA agent details how restaurants and cafes "are in many ways the lifeblood of espionage."

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Eat, Drink And Be Wary: Ex-CIA Agent Reveals How Eateries Are Key To Spycraft

2:11pm October 16, 2019

by Nina Martyris

"Restaurants and cafés are in many ways the lifeblood of espionage," says Amaryllis Fox in a new book. They're ideal places to clandestinely meet people with access to a government or terrorist group.

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In 'Heaven, My Home' Attica Locke Shows A Part Of Texas We Don't Usually See

1:57pm October 16, 2019

by Sam Briger

Locke says her new novel "was about place before it was about a character." The story follows a black ranger who patrols East Texas searching for the missing son of an Aryan Brotherhood leader.

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