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Kenji Lopez-Alt is managing culinary director of Serious Eats, author of the James Beard Award-nominated column "The Food Lab," and a columnist for Cooking Light. His first book is The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science.

A Kitchen Science Savant Shares His Secrets In 'The Food Lab'

12:46pm November 13, 2015

by NPR Staff

Kenji Lopez-Alt left a restaurant job to test and write about the mysteries of food science. His new book details findings from how best to sear a steak to how to get more golden pancakes.

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Hemingway, Mailer, PewDiePie? YouTube Stars Hit The Best-Seller Lists

7:41pm November 12, 2015

by Lynn Neary

Books by three YouTube stars are on The New York Times best-seller list right now. That's not an anomaly — NPR's Lynn Neary reports it's a trend that more and more publishers are starting to embrace.

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The 'Amazing Fantastic Incredible' Life Of Stan Lee, Now In Comic Form

5:15pm November 12, 2015

by NPR Staff

Stan Lee is a comic book legend. He's the writer behind Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk and Iron Man. Host Renee Montagne sits down with the 92-year-old to talk comics and his own superheroic life.

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'This Old Man' Is A Wry, Nimble Take On Life, Aging And Baseball

2:33pm November 12, 2015

by Maureen Corrigan

At 95, New Yorker editor Roger Angell has written decades' worth of books and articles. Maureen Corrigan says it's a great pleasure to spend time in the company of his latest book, This Old Man.

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'Hotels Of North America' Gets 4 Stars

11:53am November 12, 2015

by Jason Sheehan

Rick Moody's new novel takes the form of online travel reviews written by the lonely but oddly eloquent Reginald Morse. Critic Jason Sheehan says it's Moody at his most inventive, playful and biting.

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A Rambling Love Letter To The Silver Screen In 'How To Watch'

10:03am November 12, 2015

by Genevieve Valentine

Veteran film critic David Thomson's new book will get you thinking about the magic of film — but his personal, meandering arguments are sometimes too personal and too disjointed to land solidly.

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'The Night Clock' Ticks With Wit, Fright And Fantasy

5:57pm November 11, 2015

by Jason Heller

Paul Meloy's debut novel fuses humor, horror and personal experience. It's the story of a 40-something psychiatric nurse who discovers he's a part of a cosmic battle against the forces of nightmare.

Shonda Rhimes appears on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Sept. 24. Her new memoir is called Year of Yes.

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Shonda Rhimes On Running 3 Hit Shows And The Limits Of Network TV

5:44pm November 11, 2015

The force behind ABC's Grey's Anatomy, Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder says she has fought to get important images — like same-sex couple love scenes — on air.

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There may be a shift occurring in our willingness to eat alone that has to do with the pleasure and power of food itself.

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Why Eating Out Alone Doesn't Have To Be Lonely

3:32pm November 11, 2015

by Jill Neimark

More Americans are eating alone — at restaurants and at home. Writer Simran Sethi argues in a new book that eating alone can be a courageous act that deepens appreciation of food and place.

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The Entire Soviet Union Fits Into 'The Big Green Tent'

12:03pm November 11, 2015

by Colin Dwyer

Ludmila Ulitskaya's new novel follows three childhood friends in the years after Stalin's death — and the dozens of characters their lives intersect with — in a masterpiece of detail and ambition.