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Alison Bechdel is the author of the long-running syndicated comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For.

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Lesbian Cartoonist Alison Bechdel Countered Dad's Secrecy By Being Out And Open

5:18pm August 17, 2015

The musical and graphic novel Fun Home describe Bechdel's coming out, and her dad's closeted homosexuality. She says, "In many ways ... my professional career has been a reaction to my father's life."

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Take It From David Brooks: Career Success 'Doesn't Make You Happy'

4:38pm August 17, 2015

by NPR Staff

The New York Times columnist wrote The Road to Character after seeing the gratitude for life of people who tutor immigrants. He thought, "I've achieved career success ... but I haven't achieved that."

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Farewell To The Legendary League Of The Pink Carnation

2:27pm August 17, 2015

by Bobbi Dumas

This week, we're setting the NPR Books Time Machine for the Napoleonic Wars, and Lauren Willig's swashbuckling Pink Carnation series, about florally themed spies battling it out across Europe.

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NPR Bestsellers: Week Of August 13, 2015

12:03pm August 17, 2015

The lists are compiled from weekly surveys of close to 500 independent bookstores nationwide.

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NPR Bestsellers: Hardcover Fiction, Week Of August 13, 2015

12:03pm August 17, 2015

Alice Hoffman's The Marriage of Opposites is a fictional account of painter Camille Pissarro's early life and family. It debuts at No. 12.

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NPR Bestsellers: Hardcover Nonfiction, Week Of August 13, 2015

12:03pm August 17, 2015

Talk-radio host Mark R. Levin calls for a new civil rights movement in Plunder and Deceit, which debuts at No. 12.

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NPR Bestsellers: Paperback Fiction, Week Of August 13, 2015

12:03pm August 17, 2015

In The Boston Girl, Anita Diamant tells the story of a Jewish girl born in 1900 to immigrant parents in Boston. It appears at No. 10.

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NPR Bestsellers: Paperback Nonfiction, Week Of August 13, 2015

12:03pm August 17, 2015

At No. 11, Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything explains why the environmental crisis challenges us to abandon free market ideologies.

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The Blazing World Of Clarice Lispector, In 'Complete Stories'

11:06am August 17, 2015

by Juan Vidal

Readers everywhere are rediscovering the work of Brazil's Clarice Lispector. Critic Juan Vidal calls Lispector a singular artist, whose newly collected stories linger in the mind like poetry.

Voracious: A Hungry Reader Cooks Her Way Through Great Books by Cara Nicoletti

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Equal Parts Memoir, Cookbook And Lit-Crit, 'Voracious' Tells Delicious Stories

9:34am August 16, 2015

by NPR Staff

Through recipes and biographical vignettes, author Cara Nicoletti's new book brings literature to life. Nicoletti tells NPR's Rachel Martin that food has always been part of her reading.

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