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Trans Woman Reflects On Love, Loss And The Fight For Equality

2:32pm February 28, 2018

Sarah McBride was the first transgender person to speak at the political convention of a major party. Now she's the spokesperson for the LGBTQ rights organization the Human Rights Campaign.

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2 Decades In The Making, 'Green Sun' Is Worth The Wait

1:40pm February 28, 2018

by Michael Schaub

Kent Anderson's new novel is a sequel to 1997's Night Dogs, and it picks up with antihero Hanson, once an English teacher, now working as a police officer in Oakland — bad attitude entirely intact.

Fresh and dried yeast. It might not look like much, but it has shaped the way we eat and live, according to a new book.

The Rise Of Yeast: How Civilization Was Shaped By Sugar Fungi

8:00am February 28, 2018

by Menaka Wilhelm

Without yeast, bread wouldn't rise and beer wouldn't foam. As Nicholas Money's new book, The Rise of Yeast, points out, it leaves its mark on other foods, too, including coffee, and even chocolate.

Cover detail of Blue Dreams, by Lauren Slater

Long-Term Effects Of Psychotropic Drugs Are 'Cloaked In Mystery'

5:18pm February 27, 2018

by Terry Gross

When it comes to antidepressants and other psychotropic drugs, author Lauren Slater says, "We don't really know what we're taking into our bodies." Her new book is Blue Dreams.

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June Jo Lee's interest in food anthropology inspired her husband Philip Lee to create a publishing company that would bring books about good food to kids.

Children's Publishing House Takes Food Literacy Literally

2:48pm February 27, 2018

by Lela Nargi

Teaching kids how to eat healthfully and appreciate the cultural diversity of food begins with getting books about these themes into their hands, says Readers to Eaters' founding publisher.

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More Than Just Nostalgia, 'Time Pieces' Is A Multilayered Memoir Of Dublin

9:44am February 27, 2018

by Heller McAlpin

Irish writer John Banville's new book is a shimmering, frequently elusive book about a city, but also an inquiry into memory, shifting attention, and above all time as it passes and becomes the past.

Matt Young enlisted in the Marines when he was 18 and served three tours in Iraq.

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'Eat The Apple' Is A Brilliant And Barbed Memoir Of The Iraq War

3:59pm February 26, 2018

by Maureen Corrigan

In his experimental new memoir, Matt Young conveys the chaos of his three deployments in Iraq. Critic Maureen Corrigan calls Young "a frank, funny and mercilessly self-lacerating narrator."

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"The job of a cartoonist is not just to capture a likeness," Tim Kreider says. "A caricature brings out aspects of someone's character that they're trying to conceal."

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Essayist Breaks Free From Conventional Relationships In 'Because I Love You'

3:11pm February 26, 2018

by Dave Davies

Tim Kreider says the longest relationship of his adult life was with the stray cat. He writes about that, his fling with a sexual performance artist and much more in a new essay collection.

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The Long, Obvious Path To Corporations Being People

2:48pm February 26, 2018

A new book argues that "Citizens United" was decades in the making.

Former first lady Michelle Obama, pictured in October 2016, announced on Sunday that her new memoir titled Becoming will be released on November 13.

Michelle Obama Drops Due Date For 'Deeply Personal' Memoir

9:12pm February 25, 2018

by Vanessa Romo

Writing Becoming "has been a deeply personal experience," the former first lady tweeted. Publisher Penguin Random House says readers can expect "an unusually intimate" read this November.