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Celebrating 30 Years Of 'Fresh Air': Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist John Updike

2:38pm August 30, 2017

Over the course of his decades-long career, Updike authored more than 25 novels, including the Rabbit series. He also penned short stories, poems, essays and a memoir. Originally broadcast in 1989.

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The Consequences Of Anti-Vaccination In 'Keep You Safe'

7:58am August 27, 2017

Host A Martinez talks with Melissa Hill about her new novel, Keep You Safe, a story which takes on the heated topic of childhood vaccinations and the tragic repercussions of a parent's decision.

'Ghost Of The Innocent Man': A Story Of 24 Years Of Wrongful Imprisonment

7:58am August 27, 2017

A Martinez interviews Willie Grimes, who spent 24 years in prison, wrongly accused of rape, and Benjamin Rachlin, who chronicles his fight for exoneration in Ghost of the Innocent Man.

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Love And Cruelty Are Bound Together In 'My Absolute Darling'

2:15pm August 26, 2017

by Scott Simon

Gabriel Tallent's debut novel has been called a masterpiece on the level of To Kill a Mockingbird. It's the difficult story of a young girl living in the California woods with her abusive father.

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'The Burning Girl': Girls Who Make Each Other Who They Are

8:10am August 26, 2017

Claire Messud's newest novel, The Burning Girl, focuses on the adolescent relationships that deeply impact our lives. She talks with NPR's Scott Simon about the book.

A U.S. Marine from the 1st Battalion, 8th Marines, Alpha Company looks out as an evening storm gathers above an outpost near Kunjak, in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province.

A Retired Marine And A Photojournalist Confront War's 'Invisible Injuries'

6:46pm August 24, 2017

by Dave Davies

Marine Sgt. TJ Brennan suffered from memory loss after being injured by a grenade in Afghanistan in 2010. Finbarr O'Reilly captured the event on film. Now the two men have written a memoir.

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Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard is the author of a series of six autobiographical novels called My Struggle, as well as the novels Out of the World and A Time for Everything.

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Knausgaard's 'Autumn' Considers Everything From Toilet Bowls To Twilight

11:41am August 23, 2017

by Ari Shapiro

Karl Ove Knausgaard — known for his six-volume autobiographical series My Struggle — is now writing meditative, short texts, focused on a variety of topics, interspersed with letters to his daughter.

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'What She Ate': The Culinary Biographies Of Some Remarkable Women

8:20am August 22, 2017

by Susan Stamberg

A new book examines the lives of six different women — such as Eleanor Roosevelt and Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown — through the food they ate. It's called What She Ate by Laura Shapiro.

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Comedian Jerry Lewis Dies At 91, Also Known For Muscular Dystrophy Telethon

6:46am August 21, 2017

Jerry Lewis, a comedic fixture on big screens and charity telethons for decades, has died at the age of 91. David Greene talks to Shawn Levy, author of King of Comedy: The Life and Art of Jerry Lewis.

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'Y Is For Yesterday': Sue Grafton's Penultimate Mystery Series Novel

6:29pm August 20, 2017

Sue Grafton's latest novel is the second to last in a series spanning A to Z and 35 years worth of best-selling murder mysteries featuring fictional female detective Kinsey Millhone.

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