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Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

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'Fleishman Is In Trouble': A Debut About Divorce, Dating And Disappearance

7:58am June 15, 2019

by Scott Simon

One day, Toby Fleishman's ex-wife drops off the kids and disappears. Author Taffy Brodesser-Akner says too many people are "locked into" marriage; her new novel explores wedlock, and what comes after.

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Essayist Breaks Free From Conventional Relationships In 'Because I Love You'

2:22pm June 14, 2019

by Dave Davies

Tim Kreider says the longest relationship of his adult life was with the stray cat. He writes about that relationship and others in his essay collection. Originally broadcast Feb. 26, 2018.

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What An NPR Correspondent Learned By Working As A Taxi Driver In Shanghai

5:41pm June 13, 2019

by Frank Langfitt

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Frank Langfitt about his new book, Shanghai Free Taxi. It's born out of a project he started to meet ordinary Chinese citizens as a correspondent for NPR.

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Astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. walks near the lunar module during the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, 1969.

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'One Giant Leap' Explores The Herculean Effort Behind The 1969 Moon Landing

12:02am June 13, 2019

by Dave Davies

Fifty years after Apollo 11's historic moon landing, journalist Charles Fishman tells the story of the 410,000 men and women who helped make the mission a success.

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Blake Crouch's New Novel, 'Recursion,' Is A Thriller With A Dash Of Sci-Fi

5:05pm June 12, 2019

Blake Crouch's new novel, Recursion, is a thriller with a dash of sci-fi. It makes the case that we are the sum of our memories and asks what happens when our memories fail us.

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A suicidal depression almost ended Ella Risbridger's life, but the London poet and journalist instead ended up writing an uplifting cookbook that promises to "make you fall in love with the world again."

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How The Author Of 'Midnight Chicken' Unexpectedly Built A Life Worth Living

6:06pm June 11, 2019

by Jean Fain

Ella Risbridger was suicidally depressed when she roasted a chicken and ended up writing an uplifting, genre-bending cookbook that reads like a magical mix of memoir, novel and self-help book.

Former Teen Vogue Editor-In-Chief Elaine Welteroth, pictured here in 2017, has a new memoir out called More Than Enough.

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Former 'Teen Vogue' Editor Shares Her Memoir — And Her Manifesto

6:16am June 11, 2019

by Noel King

Elaine Welteroth became the first black beauty director at a Condé Nast magazine. Then she oversaw its political transformation. More Than Enough is her new book.

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'Great Successor' Warns Kim Jong Un Is A Threat, Not A Joke

5:01am June 11, 2019

Rachel Martin talks to Washington Post reporter Anna Fifield about her new book — The Great Successor — where she sought to piece together the puzzle of North Korea's Kim Jong Un.

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Nicole Dennis-Benn On 'Patsy'

11:14am June 09, 2019

In Nicole Dennis-Benn's new novel Patsy, she explores the demands on one woman who immigrates from Jamaica to New York and leaves her young daughter behind. She talks with NPR's Barrie Hardymon.

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Story Of The 1972 Andes Plane Crash In 'Out Of The Silence'

8:44am June 09, 2019

Eduardo Strauch survived the 1972 Andes plane crash of the Uruguayan rugby team. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with him about his story of hope in his book, Out of the Silence: After the Crash.