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Author Kanishk Tharoor On Language And Short Stories

8:30am March 11, 2017

Author Kanishk Tharoor's first book, Swimmer Among the Stars, is a compilation of short stories. He tells Scott Simon the format requires intensity and offers an opportunity to be playful.

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'Celine' Is An Ace Detective With A Crack Shot, A Quick Wit And A Good Story

7:00am March 11, 2017

by Jason Sheehan

Peter Heller's detective novel is a romp — complete with a taking-names heroine, action-packed adventures, and a sense that you've known these characters for years.

Amy Dickinson is also the author of The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, a Daughter, and the Town That Raised Them.

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In 'Strangers Tend To Tell Me Things,' An Advice Columnist Comes Home

5:20am March 11, 2017

by Scott Simon

After moving away, Ask Amy columnist Amy Dickinson returned to her hometown of Freeville, N.Y. There, she married a man she first met at age 12, and cared for her mother in her final days.

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What's Inside 'The Hearts Of Men'? A New Novel Forages For Answers

6:38pm March 10, 2017

by Lynn Neary

Nickolas Butler's second novel unfolds over three generations at a Wisconsin Boy Scout camp. The story echoes Butler's own experience both at camp and learning about his father's affair.

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In Many Ways, Author Says, Spanish Civil War Was 'The First Battle Of WWII'

1:38pm March 10, 2017

Adam Hochschild says American involvement in the Spanish Civil War resulted in Americans being bombed by Nazis years before the U.S. entered World War II. Originally published March 28, 2018.

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In 'White Tears' Appropriation Has Horrifying Consequences

11:53am March 10, 2017

by Michael Schaub

Suspense is the driving force in Hari Kunzru's thriller about two young white men who invent a fictional blues singer.

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Malcolm Gladwell: Do More Choices Make Us Happier?

8:48am March 10, 2017

by NPR/TED Staff

We assume that our choices come with prepackaged consequences. But author Malcolm Gladwell explains how we aren't simply passive recipients of our decisions.

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Dan Ariely: When Are Our Decisions Made For Us?

8:48am March 10, 2017

by NPR/TED Staff

We often think that our decisions are our own. But Behavioral Economist Dan Ariely explains how our environment — even something as simple as how a question is framed — can affect what we choose.

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The Comfort Woman statue, with bird on shoulder, beside an empty chair symbolizing survivors who are of an old age without having yet witnessed judgement, in Glendale, California.

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This Week In Race: Honoring Forgotten Women, A Sporty Hijab, Carson The Revisionist

5:01am March 10, 2017

by Karen Grigsby Bates

Cities in several states have honored "comfort women" who were forced into sex work during World War II. Memorials have appeared in New Jersey, Michigan, Virginia and California, with more on the way.

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Myth And History Collide In 'The Erstwhile'

11:18am March 09, 2017

by Jason Heller

The second installment of B. Catling's trilogy is full of oddities and quirks and familiar characters.