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Reza Farazmand is the author of Comics for a Strange World.

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Cartoonist Reza Farazmand Walks Us Through Some Of His 'Comics For A Strange World'

12:00pm November 16, 2017

by Allen Peng

We asked the artist behind the popular webcomic Poorly Drawn Lines to share the thinking behind a few of the hilariously deadpan comics from his latest book.

Priest Responds To Gang Members' 'Lethal Absence Of Hope' With Jobs, And Love

2:28pm November 13, 2017

Homeboy Industries founder Father Greg Boyle has spent 30 years working in LA with gang members and young people transitioning out of prison. His new book is Barking to the Choir.

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A Book On 'Bunk' For Our Post-Truth Times

10:17am November 13, 2017

by Michel Martin

Poet and critic Kevin Young attempts to make sense of a worsening surge in hoaxes — from plagiarism to fake news — in a new deeply researched history.

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Author Explores A Dark History Through A Magical Story In 'Rise Of The Jumbies'

6:05pm November 12, 2017

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Tracey Baptiste about her new novel. Drawing on myths of her native Trinidad and Tobago, Baptiste tackles the history of the slave trade for young readers.

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Economics in Wonderland, by Robert B. Reich

Robert Reich Shows Off His Cartooning Skills in 'Economics in Wonderland'

7:00am November 12, 2017

by Etelka Lehoczky

"Economic concepts don't readily lend themselves to cartoons," says the former Secretary of Labor, a talented cartoonist who's put a lot of thought into drawing abstract ideas like tax expenditures.

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Paul Hollywood Recounts His 'Baker's Life,' From Ginger Biscuits To Fancy Cakes

5:56pm November 11, 2017

by Scott Simon

Paul Hollywood shot to fame as the gimlet-eyed judge on the Great British Bake-Off. His new book is a memoir in recipes, beginning with childhood favorites and ending with special-occasion bakes.

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Helping Refugees Is The Test Of Our Times, David Miliband Says

8:07am November 11, 2017

NPR's Scott Simon talks to David Miliband, head of the International Rescue Committee, about his new book, Rescue: Refugees and the Political Crisis of Our Time.

A supermoon appears above Antwerp, Belgium, on Sept. 28, 2015. Andy Weir's second novel takes place on the first human colony on the moon.

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In New Novel, 'Martian' Author Andy Weir Builds A Colony On The Moon

7:51am November 11, 2017

by Scott Simon

Artemis imagines the first moon settlement as a mining town and tourist trap. "I had a lot of fun doing the world building," Weir says.

'The Annotated African American Folktales,' By Henry Louis Gates and Maria Tatar

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'Annotated African American Folktales' Reclaims Stories Passed Down From Slavery

2:29am November 11, 2017

by Robert Siegel

The new anthology, edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar, aims to make century-old stories — of flying Africans, quizzical animals and even Uncle Remus — available to new generations.

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'Hue 1968' Revisits An American 'Turning Point' In The War In Vietnam

2:44pm November 10, 2017

Author Mark Bowden says the capture of Hue, Vietnam, was part of a wave of well-planned Communist attacks that helped turn U.S. public opinion against the war. Originally broadcast June 12, 2017.

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