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Poet Amanda Gorman will address a U.N. meeting on global challenges

9:46am September 19, 2022

World leaders will gather at the U.N. to address poverty, hunger and inequality. NPR's A Martinez talks to Amanda Gorman, who reads part of a poem she wrote for an appearance at the General Assembly.

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'The Divider' probes Trump's White House years for lessons about our political future

8:03am September 18, 2022

by Ayesha Rascoe

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with reporters Susan Glasser and Peter Baker. Their new book about former President Donald Trump probes his White House years for lessons about America's political future.

Randall Munroe's 'What If? 2' answers the absurd science questions you didn't know you had

7:59am September 18, 2022

by Ayesha Rascoe

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with author Randall Munroe about his new book, "What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions."

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The former Fox editor who announced the 2020 results says there's a media problem

4:59pm September 17, 2022

by Michel Martin

Chris Stirewalt, author of Broken News: Why the Media Rage Machine Divides America & How to Fight Back, says the country's leading news organizations have leaned into a model that fosters division.

Books

In 'The book of Goose', two French girls write a book that alters their lives

1:38pm September 17, 2022

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to author Yiyun Li about her new novel, "The Book of Goose," a story of two French girls who write a book that alters their lives.

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Q&A: Author Boyah J. Farah reflects on being Black in America

6:43am September 16, 2022

by Leah Donnella

In his memoir, America Made Me a Black Man, Farah tells of what American blackness has meant to him, from his childhood in Somalia to his adolescence in the Northeast — to his return to Somalia.

'Friday Night Lights' author tackles a historic WWII football match-up

1:26pm September 15, 2022

by Dave Davies

Buzz Bissinger revisits a football game among Marines that took place on a Pacific island in 1945, while they were waiting to engage in the assault on Okinawa. His new book is The Mosquito Bowl.

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Lisa McNair holds her memoir Dear Denise: Letters to the Sister I Never Knew, recounting growing up in Birmingham, Ala., after her sister Denise and three other Black girls were murdered in the Ku Klux Klan bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church.

Her sister was killed in the Birmingham church bombing. A new book tells their story

6:30pm September 14, 2022

In a new memoir, Lisa McNair recounts growing up in Birmingham, Ala., after her sister Denise and three other Black girls were murdered in the 1963 Ku Klux Klan bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church.

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Nina Totenberg looks back on her decades-long friendship with Ruth Bader Ginsburg

12:58pm September 14, 2022

by Terry Gross

The NPR legal affairs correspondent met the future SCOTUS justice in the early '70s, when Totenberg interviewed Ruth Bader Ginsburg for a story about a decision pertaining to women's rights.

We see rituals in almost every part of our lives, from celebrations to methods of alleviating stress.

Your everyday rituals do impact your life — just not how you might expect

10:17am September 14, 2022

In his new book, scientist and author Dimitris Xygalatas explores how performing all kinds of rituals will have tangible impacts on our everyday lives

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