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'The Way Through the Woods': Mourning Author Finds Comfort In Mushrooms

5:07pm July 07, 2019

Litt Woon Long and her husband had a running joke about taking a mushrooming class. When he died, she went for it. NPR's Michel Martin talks to Long about her book, The Way Through the Woods.

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Jack Fairweather On The 'Secret Mission To Destroy Auschwitz'

8:09am July 07, 2019

Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Jack Fairweather about his new book, The Volunteer, which chronicles a Polish man who volunteered to go to Auschwitz in order to start a resistance movement there.

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New Novel Asks: What Would You Do To Get Your Kid Into 'The Gifted School'?

3:28pm July 06, 2019

by Renee Montagne

The school is fictional but the anxiety is real — the plot bears striking resemblance to actual college admissions scandals. "There's a sense that parents will stop at nothing," says Bruce Holsinger.

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'Slaughterhouse-Five' At 50

8:04am July 06, 2019

Fifty years ago Kurt Vonnegut published his anti-war novel Slaughterhouse-Five. NPR's Renee Montagne revisits an earlier conversation she had with the author about the book.

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Sports

Former MLB Commissioner Selig Opens Up In 'For The Good Of The Game'

8:30am July 03, 2019

by Tom Goldman

As commissioner, Bud Selig led Major League Baseball through a major restructuring. He was also at the helm during the 1994 strike and the steroid era. He's candid about it all in a new book.

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Author Pulls Back The Iron Curtain On The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster

2:04pm July 02, 2019

by Dave Davies

Midnight In Chernobyl author Adam Higginbotham spent years investigating the 1986 explosion and its aftermath. He says design flaws, human hubris and Soviet secrecy all contributed to the disaster.

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Author Mo Willems supervises a rehearsal of the musical adaptation of Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. As the very first Education Artist-in-Residence, "I can say at this point that I am the greatest ... " he l

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Kids' Author Mo Willems Has A New Creative Challenge (And So Should You)

5:32am July 02, 2019

by Rachel Martin

The creator of the Pigeon series, Knuffle Bunny, and Elephant & Piggie is currently an Artist-in-Residence at the Kennedy Center. He says if you want kids to draw, you should let them see you drawing.

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'Reviving Ophelia' Turns 25

5:31pm June 30, 2019

The 1994 book Revivng Ophelia spotlighted the mental health of teenage girls. Years later, author Mary Pipher and her daughter Sara Pipher Gilliam have updated the book for the modern era.

The list of names for the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season are seen on a map at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida.

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How The Advance Weather Forecast Got Good

8:19am June 30, 2019

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

Under the radar (so to speak), predictions have improved dramatically of late. In The Weather Machine, Andrew Blum writes that it's due to an international (and imperiled) alliance of supercomputers.

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'Three Women' Puts Female Desire At The Forefront

10:28am June 29, 2019

by Sarah McCammon

For her new book, Lisa Taddeo spent nearly a decade immersed in the sex lives of three women. She says desire is one of the things we think about the most, and it's time to talk about women's desires.

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