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Remembering Michael Denneny, an editor who championed LGBTQ voices

2:55pm April 21, 2023

by Terry Gross

One of the first openly gay editors working at a major publishing house, Denneny launched the Stonewall Inn Editions imprint. He died April 12. Originally broadcast in 1987 and 1994.

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Remembering historical crime novelist Anne Perry

1:55pm April 21, 2023

by Terry Gross

For decades, Perry, who died April 10, kept secret the fact that she was one of the teenage girls involved in the murder depicted in the 1994 film Heavenly Creatures. Originally broadcast in 1994.

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Author Judy Blume is finally ready to tell her own story in new documentary

4:28pm April 20, 2023

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with author Judy Blume and filmmaker Davina Pardo about Judy Blume Forever, a documentary on the life and impact of one of the most celebrated children's writers.

White women in rural America are dying. This memoir examines why

4:27pm April 19, 2023

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Monica Potts about her memoir, The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America.

Julia Lee's book cover for Biting the Hand: Growing up Asian in Black and White America.

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'Biting the Hand': Korean American author calls for weaponizing invisibility

7:57am April 19, 2023

by Reena Advani

Korean American author Julia Lee pulls no punches about the experience of being Asian in the U.S. today, in her memoir Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America.

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'The Wager' chronicles shipwreck, mutiny and murder at the tip of South America

2:03pm April 18, 2023

by Sam Briger

Author David Grann tells the story of an 18th-century British warship that wrecked along the coast of Patagonia. The survivors sailed thousands of miles to safety, and later faced charges of mutiny.

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Jon Ward says writing about the evangelical movement released bottled up emotions

5:08am April 18, 2023

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Jon Ward, Yahoo News chief national correspondent, about his memoir: Testimony, which details his upbringing in, and break from, an influential evangelical church.

David Grann's latest book, "The Wager," delves into the mysteries of an 18th-century maritime disaster that occurred off Cape Horn.

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From cannibalism to cover-up, David Grann sees his new shipwreck mystery as a parable

6:42am April 17, 2023

by Jan Johnson

Steve Inskeep talks to David Grann about his retelling of the dramatic Wager Mutiny of 1741.

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Musician Questlove and crime writer S.A. Cosby on their new children's book

7:48am April 16, 2023

by Ayesha Rascoe

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with the duo behind a new time travel adventure for middle-grade readers: musician Questlove and crime writer S.A. Cosby. The book is called "The Rhythm of Time."

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Traci Sorell and Arigon Starr on their children's book about two Native baseball stars

7:59am April 15, 2023

by Miles Parks

NPR's Miles Parks talks with Traci Sorell and Arigon Starr about their children's book "Contenders: Two Native Baseball Players, One World Series."