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New Thriller 'The Chain' Has An Origin Almost As Exciting As Its Plot

9:09am July 14, 2019

by Lynn Neary

Novelist Adrian McKinty had several books and prestigious awards under his belt — but no one was buying, and he'd given up writing to drive an Uber when a blog post led to some new opportunities.

Thomas Abt Talks New Book On Urban Violence, 'Bleeding Out'

5:26pm July 13, 2019

NPR's Michel Martin talks with researcher Thomas Abt about his book Bleeding Out, which offers strategies for stopping urban violence.

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Colson Whitehead On 'The Nickel Boys'

2:25pm July 13, 2019

NPR's Scott Simon talks to acclaimed novelist Colson Whitehead about his new novel, The Nickel Boys, which is based on the horrors of a real juvenile reformatory academy.

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Keith Hernandez On Baseball, 'Seinfeld' And Being His Own 'Worst Enemy'

3:29pm July 12, 2019

by Dave Davies

The former first baseman played on championship teams with the Cardinals and Mets, and made a memorable appearance on Seinfeld. His memoir is I'm Keith Hernandez. Originally broadcast June 4, 2018.

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Angela Saini, author of Superior: The Return of Race Science.

Is 'Race Science' Making A Comeback?

3:35pm July 10, 2019

We talked to Angela Saini, author of the new book Superior: The Return of Race Science, about how race isn't real (but you know ... still is) and how race science crept its way into the 21st century.

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Rulings On Gerrymandering And The Census Could Define The Political Future

1:25pm July 09, 2019

by Terry Gross

Mother Jones journalist Ari Berman says recent Supreme Court decisions on redistricting and the 2020 census citizenship question will help determine which party is in power in the next decade.

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detail from the cover of The Book of Collateral Damage by Sinan Antoon

In 'The Book Of Collateral Damage,' An Accounting Of What Baghdad Lost

5:05am July 09, 2019

by Steve Inskeep

The novelist and poet Sinan Antoon, raised in Iraq and now living in New York, returned home following the 2003 U.S. occupation. That experience inspired his new work of fiction.

"I consider myself one who creates clothes, and fashions clothes, and uses it as a vehicle to fashion young minds," says clothier Dapper Dan.

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Dapper Dan, Telling Stories In Leather, Fur And Logos

7:55pm July 08, 2019

by Audie Cornish

The legendary hip-hop designer is now partnering with the big fashion labels who originally shut him down for bootlegging their logos. He's got a new memoir out, called Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem.

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Travis Rieder, author of In Pain: A Bioethicist's Personal Struggle With Opioids, says none of the doctors who prescribed opioids for his waves of "fiery" or "electrical" pain taught him how to safely taper his use of the drugs when he wanted to quit.

Motorcycle Crash Shows Bioethicist The Dark Side Of Quitting Opioids Alone

4:50pm July 08, 2019

by Terry Gross

When medical bioethicist Travis Rieder tried to taper off pain medication after a roadway accident, he was disappointed by his doctors' reaction: "Everybody had a reason to send me to somebody else."

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Nigerian Schoolgirls' Abduction Told In 'Beneath The Tamarind Tree'

6:13am July 08, 2019

NPR's Noel King talks to former CNN journalist Isha Sesay about her book: Beneath the Tamarind Tree — A Story of Courage, Family, and the Lost Schoolgirls of Boko Haram.

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