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Ellen Pao is a tech investor, co-founder of inclusion nonprofit Project Include, and former Reddit CEO.

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Silicon Valley's Ellen Pao Tackles Sex Discrimination, Workplace Diversity In Memoir

1:46pm September 19, 2017

by Mary Louise Kelly

The tech investor dives into the lawsuit that thrust her into the national spotlight and the workplace conditions that prompted it. She says firms are largely applying "tepid diversity solutions."

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Hillary Clinton outside the Fresh Air studio in Philadelphia on Sept. 14.

Clinton Won't Rule Out Questioning 2016 Election, But Says No Clear Means To Do So

7:34pm September 18, 2017

by Terry Gross

Hillary Clinton tells Fresh Air the mechanism for such a challenge does not exist in the U.S. "and usually we don't need it." She also says she is "optimistic about our country, but I am not naive."

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Detail from the book cover of Quests for Glory by Soman Chainani.

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'School For Good And Evil' Is A Kids' Fantasy Series For The Fake News Era

5:44pm September 18, 2017

by Selena Simmons-Duffin

"Good and evil — they mix in the world," says author Soman Chainani. "Both sides claim to be good, both sides claim to be telling the truth." His latest in the series is called Quests for Glory.

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Brooklyn Is Magical In 'Shadowhouse Fall'

7:59am September 17, 2017

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Daniel José Older about his new book, Shadowhouse Fall.

The Hughes Glomar Explorer was custom-built to secretly house a sunken Soviet submarine.

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'The Taking Of K-129': How The CIA Stole A Sunken Soviet Sub Off The Ocean Floor

6:08pm September 16, 2017

by Michel Martin

Author Josh Dean describes how the CIA worked to secretly resurface a sub that the Soviet Union considered lost. Their cover story involved eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes.

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Katy Tur is now an anchor for MSNBC and a reporter for NBC News.

Reporter Katy Tur Shares Her 'Front-Row' View Of The Trump Campaign

2:13pm September 16, 2017

by Terry Gross

Tur was at a rally in South Carolina when Trump called her name and pointed at her from the podium. Then, she says, "The entire place turns and they roar as one ... like a giant, unchained animal."

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'Lightning Men' Is A Story About Police, Race And Atlanta

8:08am September 16, 2017

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with author Thomas Mullen about his new novel, Lightning Men. It is the story of black and white cops in Atlanta in 1950.

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Fiona Mozley On Making The Man Booker Shortlist With Her Debut Novel

8:08am September 16, 2017

Fiona Mozley wrote her first novel, Elmet, on her phone while commuting on the train between York and London. She talks with Scott Simon about being shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

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A Boy Grows Up In Harlem In 'The Stars Beneath Our Feet'

8:08am September 16, 2017

NPR's Scott Simon talks to author David Barclay Moore about his new book, The Stars Beneath Our Feet.

Bruce Springsteen: On Jersey, Masculinity And Wishing To Be His Stage Persona

3:43pm September 15, 2017

"People see you onstage and, yeah, I'd want to be that guy," Springsteen says. "I want to be that guy myself very often." Originally broadcast Oct. 5, 2016.

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