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The Souvenir Museum, by Elizabeth McCracken

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'The Souvenir Museum' Is An Exhibit To Savor

7:00am April 13, 2021

by Heller McAlpin

Elizabeth McCracken's new story collection dazzles with verbal flexibility, insight and feeling, capturing the oddities and mixed bags, the loves and losses that make up most people's lives.

I Have Been Buried Under Years of Dust: A Memoir of Autism and Hope, by Valerie Gilpeer and Emily Grodin.

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Mother-Daughter Memoir Of Autism Exemplifies The Power Of Language

4:33am April 13, 2021

by Jason Heller

Heartbreaking and uplifting in equal measure, I Have Been Buried Under Years of Dust is a chronicle of not only finding one's voice, but of learning to make others understand that voice.

Actor Will Smith, here in Paris in January 2020, is starring in and producing the film Emancipation.

'Emancipation' Moving Production Out Of Georgia Due To New Voting Laws

5:21pm April 12, 2021

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

Actor Will Smith and director Antoine Fuqua, who are producing the Civil War-era film Emancipation, announced Monday that they are pulling the movie's production from Georgia.

In Promising Young Woman, Carey Mulligan plays a woman who hunts down sexual predators by pretending to be drunk at bars and then confronting the men who try to take advantage of her.

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Emerald Fennell's 'Promising Young Woman' Doesn't Let Anyone Off The Hook

3:13pm April 12, 2021

by Sam Briger

Writer-director Fennell describes her Oscar-nominated film about a woman who hunts down sexual predators as "a kind of fantasy" but also as something "much darker and, I hope, more honest than that."

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Leslie Odom Jr. Finds Sam Cooke's Voice In 'One Night In Miami'

1:41pm April 12, 2021

by Ann Marie Baldonado

Odom Jr. landed his first Broadway role at 16, and later starred as Aaron Burr in Hamilton. Now he's up for two Oscars, one for his role as Cooke in One Night in Miami.

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John Boehner, pictured in 2016, was speaker of the House during the Obama presidency. He says he sometimes went along with things he personally opposed because it was what members of his party wanted.

John Boehner On The 'Noisemakers' Of The Republican Party

9:44am April 12, 2021

Boehner was the Republican speaker of the House during much of the Obama presidency. His new memoir recounts his time leading House Republicans — even if that meant doing things he personally opposed.

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Hear My Voice/Escucha Mi Voz includes a child's account of crossing the Rio Grande. (Excerpted from Hear My Voice/Escucha mi voz. Foreword by Michael Garcia Bochenek; Compiled by Warren Binford; Workman Publishing. Copyright 2021.)

A Picture Book About Children At The Border Aims To Spark Family Conversations

7:00am April 12, 2021

by Anya Kamenetz

The new children's book Hear My Voice/Escucha Mi Voz pulls from the author's interviews with migrant children detained in U.S. facilities in 2019.

A boy holding a sign takes part in a Stop Asian Hate rally in Oakland, Calif.

'Today, I Am A Witness To Change': A Crowdsourced Poem Against Anti-Asian Hate

5:53am April 12, 2021

by Rachel Martin

NPR's resident poet Kwame Alexander created a community poem from submissions that reflected on increased violence and discrimination against Asian Americans.

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#NPRPoetry: Mark Doty

4:57pm April 11, 2021

Poet Mark Doty, winner of the 2008 National Book Award for poetry, discusses his favorite listener-submitted poems with NPR's Michel Martin.

Amy Sherald, Breonna Taylor, 2020, oil on linen

'Filled With Her Spirit,' A Louisville Art Exhibition Honors Breonna Taylor

4:57pm April 11, 2021

by Stephanie Wolf

Just over a year after police officers shot and killed Taylor in her home, the Speed Art Museum has opened a show in her memory. "To see it all come together is just a blessing," says Taylor's mother.