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James Beard Award-winning chef David Chang says fatherhood changed the way he cooks: "I had never been in a position where I'm trying to generally feed someone else with love and I just want to nurture them."

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Chef David Chang On Depression, Being A Dad And The Burden Of 'Authenticity'

5:37pm November 25, 2020

by Terry Gross

The Momofuku chef says COVID-19 has introduced "seismic" changes to his industry. "We're doing anything and everything to stay afloat," he says. Chang's new memoir is Eat a Peach.

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Remembering Travel Writer And Memoirist Jan Morris

1:38pm November 25, 2020

by Terry Gross

Morris, who died Nov. 20, transitioned to female in 1972 when she was 46. She later reflected on gender in her memoir, Conundrum. Originally broadcast in 1989.

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Morning Edition poet in residence Kwame Alexander on Oct. 23, 2018 in New York City.

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Kwame Alexander Offers New Poems On Race And Hope As 'Psalms And Balms' For The Soul

6:10am November 24, 2020

by Rachel Martin

In Light For The World To See: A Thousand Words On Race And Hope, Kwame Alexander writes of the killing of George Floyd, Colin Kaepernick's kneeling protests, and the election of Barack Obama.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates On HBO Adaptation Of 'Between The World And Me'

4:06pm November 23, 2020

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with American author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates about the HBO adaptation of his book Between the World and Me and what it means in 2020.

Catherine Coleman Flowers is the founding director of the Alabama Center for Rural Enterprise.

'Waste' Activist Digs Into The Sanitation Crisis Affecting The Rural Poor

2:19pm November 23, 2020

by Dave Davies

In 2017, a study reported one in three people in one rural Alabama county had been exposed to hookworm. Catherine Coleman Flowers says the study reveals big gaps in sanitation in rural America.

An archival postcard of the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, N.C., where much of the novel Even As We Breathe is set.

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'Even As We Breathe': A First Novel From A Teacher Who Writes For Her Students

6:41pm November 22, 2020

by Neda Ulaby

The book is a mystery of sorts, set at an upscale North Carolina resort during World War II. Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle teaches at a high school with a student population that's 30% Native American.

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'How Fascism Works' Author On Trump's Attempts To Overturn Election Results

5:19pm November 21, 2020

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks to Jason Stanley, author of How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, about President Trump's refusal to concede and his party's willingness to go along with it

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Simon Han Explores The Immigrant Experience In His Debut Novel

7:56am November 21, 2020

Simon Han's debut novel is set in the Texas suburbs he grew up in. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Han about his book chronicling the immigrant experience, Nights When Nothing Happened.

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'To Be A Man': Book Of Stories Filled With Small Estrangements

5:02pm November 20, 2020

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with author Nicole Krauss about her new book of short stories, To Be A Man.

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The CIA's Secret Quest For Mind Control: Torture, LSD And A 'Poisoner In Chief'

1:45pm November 20, 2020

by Terry Gross

Journalist Stephen Kinzer reveals how the CIA worked in the 1950s and early '60s to develop mind control drugs and deadly toxins that could be used against enemies. Originally broadcast Sept. 9, 2019.

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