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Susan Cain in conversation with Whitney Pennington Rodgers during a TED Membership event online. Photo courtesy of TED.

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Susan Cain: The glorious complexity of being human

9:44am September 09, 2022

Words like introvert and extrovert help us make sense of the world, but one label can't sum up a person. Susan Cain explores how we can embrace the nuances that give our lives meaning and beauty.

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Gabby Rivera speaks at Design Salon: Radical Craft at the TED World Theater, November 8, 2018, New York, NY. Photo: Ryan Lash / TED

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Gabby Rivera: Writing the story of Marvel's first queer Latina superhero

9:44am September 09, 2022

In Marvel's "America," Gabby Rivera wrote a superhero who's queer, Latina, and punches portals across dimensions. She shares why it's empowering to write characters that mirror her identity.

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How YouTube became one of the planet's most influential media businesses

1:32pm September 08, 2022

by Dave Davies

Like, Comment, Subscribe author Mark Bergen says YouTube has ushered in a world of abundant content and creativity, of influencers and hustlers, of information overload and endless culture wars.

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Encore: Werner Herzog's new novel is a story of the jungle and obsession and delusion

4:55pm September 06, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with filmmaker Werner Herzog about his debut novel, The Twilight World. It tells the story of Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese soldier who kept fighting decades after the end of WWII.

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A new novel honors the forgotten — and possibly murdered — Lucrezia de Medici

4:55pm September 06, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Maggie O'Farrell about her novel The Marriage Portrait, an imagined account of the life of Lucrezia de' Medici, who was rumored to have been murdered by her husband.

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Social media can inflame your emotions — and it's a byproduct of its design

4:23pm September 06, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Max Fisher, author of The Chaos Machine, about how social media companies leverage content that elicits anger and outrage to keep users engaged on their platforms.

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A.M. Homes on writing about characters that have different set of values from her

4:23pm September 06, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with author A.M. Homes about her new book, The Unfolding, which focuses on a Republican power broker between election night 2008 and Inauguration Day in January 2009.

Melissa Clark and NPR's Ayesha Rascoe pose with the cheesy baked pasta.

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When Melissa Clark cooks, it's 'Dinner in One'

8:01am September 04, 2022

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe visits the food writer's home to talk and cook. Clark has a new book of recipes promising minimal fuss (and dirty dishes).

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Encore: 'Peach Blossom Spring' interrogates the meaning of home

4:16pm August 31, 2022

In this encore presentation, NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Melissa Fu about her debut novel Peach Blossom Spring, a multigenerational story of war and migration inspired by her father's life.

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When is nice too nice? One author explores that question in her new book

4:05pm August 30, 2022

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with author Mia Mercado about her new book She's Nice Though, which explores why women, in particular, feel the need to perform niceness in so many situations.