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'The Plot Against America' Asks: What If The U.S. Had Sided With The Nazis?

1:49pm March 13, 2020

David Bianculli reviews HBO's new miniseries, which imagines that Charles Lindbergh became president in 1940. And we listen back to a 2004 with Philip Roth, who wrote the novel the series is based on.

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Too Busy? Make Time To 'Do Nothing'

5:00am March 12, 2020

by David Greene

As many Americans start thinking about what a self-quarantine might look like, author Celeste Headlee has some advice: Put down your phone. Her book explains how we're "overdoing and underliving."

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A Native American Woman's Search For Truth In 'Yellow Bird'

5:18pm March 11, 2020

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with journalist Sierra Crane Murdoch about her new book Yellow Bird. It follows the story of a Native American woman and her quest to find a missing oil worker.

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'MBS' Traces The Rise Of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman

1:21pm March 11, 2020

by Dave Davies

New York Times reporter Ben Hubbard says Saudi Arabia's leader is full of contradictions: He ended a ban on women driving, but his agents also carried out the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

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'New Waves' Asks: How Can We Form True Friendships In An Online World?

10:36am March 11, 2020

by Ari Shapiro

In journalist Kevin Nguyen's first novel, characters build relationships with each other online that translate to the real world — with mixed results.

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"You can't be a novelist, you can't be a creative person, if you are so cynical about the world that everything you say and write is negative," says novelist James McBride. He won the 2013 National Book Award for his novel The Good Lord Bird.

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'Emphasize The Positive': James McBride On The Kindness That Shaped Him

2:07pm March 09, 2020

by Terry Gross

McBride's novel, Deacon King Kong, takes place in 1969, in a Brooklyn housing project similar to the one he grew up in. "In this book and in this community, people generally love each other," he says.

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Pulitzer Prize-Winning N. Scott Momaday Talks About His New Collection Of Poetry

9:39am March 08, 2020

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to native American poet N. Scott Momaday about his new collection, The Death of Sitting Bear.

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'The Mirror And The Light' Author Says Trilogy Is: 'The Central Project Of My Life'

8:43am March 08, 2020

The Mirror and the Light is beloved writer Hilary Mantel's last novel in her acclaimed series about Thomas Cromwell.

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'Crack' Author Interview

5:23pm March 07, 2020

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with historian David Farber about his new book, Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed.

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New Book Tells Story Of A Secret Love In A Small Town

11:04am March 07, 2020

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with author Dennis E. Staples about his debut novel, "This Town Sleeps."

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