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Two Determined Mothers Clash Over Integration Efforts In 'What's Mine And Yours'

5:58pm March 01, 2021

by Audie Cornish

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Naima Coster about her novel What's Mine And Yours, about a North Carolina high school in the middle of an integration program in the early 2000.

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Magician Derek DelGaudio Traces His Journey From Card Cheat To Illusionist

1:26pm March 01, 2021

by Dave Davies

The sleight-of-hand master explores themes of identity, honesty and the emotional cost of keeping secrets in the memoir, AMORALMAN. DelGaudio's one-man show In & Of Itself is now available on Hulu.

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Journalist Explores Challenges For 'Power Moms' In New Book

4:46pm February 28, 2021

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with journalist Joann Lublin about her new book, Power Moms: How Executive Mothers Navigate Work and Life.

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'The Conductors' Is A History Buff's Dream Fantasy Novel

8:01am February 28, 2021

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to Nicole Glover about her debut novel, The Conductors, which focuses on a couple solving crimes and mysteries using magic in post-Civil War Philadelphia.

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King Cat John Porcellino On Comics, Zines And Trying To Make The World Less Crazy

7:00am February 28, 2021

by Etelka Lehoczky

Cartoonist and zine-maker John Porcellino has been a hugely influential figure in the world of zine-making. As several of his classic books are reissued, we talk to him about his life and work

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Will Nico Walker Watch 'Cherry?' Probably Not

8:00am February 27, 2021

by Andrew Limbong

The new movie Cherry follows an Iraq war vet who gets addicted to heroin and starts robbing banks. It's based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Nico Walker, who was just released from prison.

The Committed: A Novel by Viet Tanh Nguyen

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'It's Hard To Leave Him': 'Sympathizer' Spy Story Continues In 'The Committed'

8:00am February 27, 2021

by Scott Simon

Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer Prize-winning spy novel The Sympathizer told the story of a communist double agent just after the Vietnam War — his quest for revolution resumes in The Committed.

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The Legacies Of Black Icons Sam Cooke, Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) And Malcolm X

1:29pm February 26, 2021

by Terry Gross

The film One Night in Miami imagines a night in 1964 where Cooke, Clay, Malcolm X and Jim Brown meet. We listen back to interviews with biographers Peter Guralnick, Jonathan Eig and Alex Haley.

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Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans, by Michaeleen Doucleff

'Hunt, Gather, Parent' Offers Lessons Collected Around The World

6:00am February 25, 2021

by Rachel Martin

NPR's Michaeleen Doucleff found that parenting books she read after becoming a mom left a lot out. When she went through a tough period with her daughter, she traveled the world in search of guidance.

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Véronique Tadjo's 'In The Company Of Men' Focuses On West Africa's Ebola Outbreak

5:09pm February 24, 2021

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with writer Véronique Tadjo about her book, In The Company of Men. It's a novel about the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, first published in French in 2017.