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Suki Kim is the author of Without You, There Is No Us.

Mislabeled As A Memoirist, Author Asks: Whose Work Gets To Be Journalism?

1:38pm July 01, 2016

by NPR Staff

Suki Kim wrote Without You, There Is No Us after working undercover as a teacher in North Korea. She says the response to her book is also a response to her identity as Korean and a woman.

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Gay Talese attends a movie screening in New York City this past February.

Gay Talese Disavows His Disavowal Of His New Book

1:06pm July 01, 2016

by Annalisa Quinn

Talese had told The Washington Post he wouldn't promote his new nonfiction book, The Voyeur's Motel, after the paper found flaws in its story. But now he says the book will go ahead as planned.

"Tarzan serve Blue Steel! Want tell you about Tarzan's paleo regimen!": Alexander Skarsgard in The Legend of Tarzan.

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Me, Tarzan: Get To Know Your Friendly Neighborhood Ape Man

11:51am July 01, 2016

by Glen Weldon

To help you prepare for this weekend's new Tarzan film, we offer this primer on the many lives of the world's very first Vine celebrity.

Encore: 'Future Shock' 40 Years Later

4:26pm June 30, 2016

by Martin Kaste

Future Shock by Alvin Toffler was a huge sensation when it was published in 1970. The book perfectly captured the angst of that time and prepared society for more changes to come.

Harriet Logan, owner of Loganberry Books in Shaker Heights, Ohio, shares her summer reading recommendations including a graphic novel about trash and a George Eliot classic.

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Pack These Pages: Three Must-Reads For Summer

5:07pm June 29, 2016

Harriet Logan, owner of Loganberry Books in Shaker Heights, Ohio, recommends a graphic novel about trash, a George Eliot classic and a children's book about a bear pianist.

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'A Hundred Thousand Worlds' Might Be A Few Too Many

1:45pm June 29, 2016

by Michael Schaub

Bob Proehl's sprawling novel follows actor Valerie and her son Alex on an epic road trip, punctuated by stops at comic conventions. It's a charming but messy debut that crams in too many ideas.

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'They May Not Mean To, But They Do' Is A Sparkling, Sad Family Affair

1:24pm June 29, 2016

by Maureen Corrigan

Cathleen Schine's new novel explores how one character's physical and mental decline ripples out to affect his whole family. Critic Maureen Corrigan calls it a mix of "fun and bad behavior."

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'The Big Sheep' Plays Hardboiled Sci-Fi To The Hilt

10:31am June 29, 2016

by Jason Heller

It's not hard to parse the two main influences on Robert Kroese's new novel, The Big Sheep: Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler. But Kroese's knack for humor helps elevate their gonzo grimness.

'The Innocent Have Nothing To Fear' Echoes Real-Life Republican Race

4:38pm June 28, 2016

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Stuart Stevens, a former strategist for Mitt Romney, whose new novel, The Innocent Have Nothing to Fear, tells the story of a neck-and-neck Republican primary campaign that ends up at a brokered convention.

In 'Hustling Hitler,' A Jewish Vaudevillian Scams The Third Reich

4:38pm June 28, 2016

It seems everyone has one: the eccentric relative much gossiped about. For Walter Shapiro, it's his great-uncle, Freeman Bernstein. The vaudeville manager, boxing promoter, card shark and stock swindler managed to scam the Third Reich. Shapiro writes about this in his new book, Hustling Hitler.