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A Summer Of Second Chances In 'Small Town Hearts'

7:00am March 21, 2019

by Alethea Kontis

Lillie Vale's new young adult novel follows Babe Vogel, who's perfectly happy in her small town life, even though her friends have mostly moved on — until a "summer boy" arrives to complicate things.

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Delbanco Writes About Americans' Complicity With Slavery In His Latest Book

6:47am March 21, 2019

Steve Inskeep talks with Andrew Delbanco about slavery and reparations. Delbanco is the author of, The War Before the War.

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The 2019 Whiting Award recipients (clockwise from top left): poet Kayleb Rae Candrilli, poet Tyree Daye, novelist Hernan Diaz, playwright Michael R. Jackson, fiction writer Terese Marie Mailhot, nonfiction writer Nadia Owusu, playwright Lauren Yee, poet V

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'The Future Of Literature': Whiting Awards Celebrate 10 Emerging Writers

7:35pm March 20, 2019

by Colin Dwyer

The novelists, poets and playwrights won Wednesday partly for their work so far, but also for the promise they've shown. If previous winners are an indication, it's a promise they're likely to keep.

An illustration depicting Johannes Gutenberg taking the first proof off his printing press.

'The Lost Gutenberg' Traces One Bible's 500-Year Journey

12:01pm March 20, 2019

by Gabino Iglesias

The depth of Margaret Leslie Davis' research on the tome's history cannot be understated — her writing is straightforward and, at times, heartbreaking, but outstanding reporting lies at the core.

In 'Horizon,' Considering All That Is Connected

9:34am March 20, 2019

by Genevieve Valentine

Barry Lopez's new book is a biography and a portrait of some of the world's most delicate places, but at heart it's a contemplation of the belief that the way forward is compassionately, and together.

The writer Lawrence Ferlinghetti, pictured here in Berlin in 2004, will turn 100 years old this weekend.

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A Lost 'Little Boy' Nears 100: Poet And Publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti

5:03am March 20, 2019

by Tom Vitale

The Beat Generation icon and owner of City Lights bookstore and press in San Francisco is still writing. He celebrates his centennial March 24, and his new autobiographical novel is out now.

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Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump walk on the South Lawn of the White House to board Marine One on their way to the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland on June 1, 2018.

'Kushner, Inc.' Adds Little To The Canon On Jared And Ivanka

5:37pm March 19, 2019

by Annalisa Quinn

Other journalists have previously reported many of the serious claims presented in Vicky Ward's book; her own yields generally feel meager, wrapping even the smallest scoops in a fog of insinuation.

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'The New Me' Is Meh About Ambition And Adulthood

5:11pm March 19, 2019

by Ailsa Chang

Halle Butler's new novel explores what it's like to work in a dead-end office job. Her satirical story focuses on a 30-year-old woman named Millie who wanders from temp job to temp job.

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For March, 3 Romances That Fight For Love

4:39pm March 19, 2019

by Maya Rodale

True love finds a way amid food trucks, ice skates and ... knife throwing? In other words, March is just another month in Romancelandia, and we've got three stories of people fighting hard for love.

A chimpanzee hugs her newborn at Burgers' Zoo in Arnhem, Netherlands, in 2010. Over the course of his long career, primatologist Frans de Waal has become convinced that primates and other animals express emotions similar to human emotions.

Sex, Empathy, Jealousy: How Emotions And Behavior Of Other Primates Mirror Our Own

4:03pm March 19, 2019

by Terry Gross

Primatologist Frans de Waal believes that the way humans experience emotion is not unique: "That's a spectrum of behavior that we have, and the same thing is true for many other species."

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