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'National Emergency Library' Lends A Hand — And Lots Of Books! — During Pandemic

12:28pm March 26, 2020

by Colin Dwyer

With coronavirus concerns closing libraries around the world, the nonprofit Internet Archive has suspended its waitlists for the digital copies of more than a million books.

Tigers, Not Daughters, by Samantha Mabry

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'Tigers, Not Daughters' Is Haunting — With Or Without A Ghost

7:00am March 26, 2020

by Caitlyn Paxson

In Samantha Mabry's new novel, three prickly sisters are haunted, maybe literally, by their fourth, who's died in an accident. She has a message for them, but they may be too sunk in grief to hear it.

ABC's Jonathan Karl Writes About 'Front Row At The Trump Show'

5:55am March 26, 2020

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to ABC's White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl about his book: Front Row at the Trump Show. Karl was a cub reporter for the New York Post when he first met Donald Trump.

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Wanted: Stories With Happily Ever Afters - Here's Where To Start Looking

5:00am March 26, 2020

by Glen Weldon

In uncertain times, we want stories that reassure us that everything will be okay. Here are some books, films, plays and TV shows that believe in Happily Ever After.

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New York Comes Alive — Literally — In 'The City We Became'

7:00am March 25, 2020

by Steve Mullis

Three-time Hugo Award winner N.K. Jemisin turns her attention to our world in her new book — or at least, a version of our world in which cities can be born in human form to fight evil.

A reporter wearing a latex glove raises his hand to ask President Trump a question during a coronavirus briefing at the White House on March 16.

'All Of This Panic Could Have Been Prevented': Author Max Brooks On COVID-19

6:13pm March 24, 2020

by Terry Gross

The World War Z novelist has done extensive research into real disaster preparedness. "There is no excuse not to mobilize the full forces of the federal government right now," he says.

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In 'Wine Girl,' Taking On The Old Boys Of The Wine World

2:31pm March 24, 2020

by Rachel Martin

Victoria James loves wine; she became a sommelier at 21 — but she discovered that the world of wine was an old boys' club that didn't welcome women. Her new memoir chronicles her fight to fit in.

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People of Japanese descent wait in line for their assigned homes at an internment camp reception center in Manzanar, Calif., the same camp in which John Tateishi was detained as a child.

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The Unlikely Story Behind Japanese Americans' Campaign For Reparations

8:25am March 24, 2020

by Isabella Rosario

In his new book Redress: The Inside Story of the Successful Campaign for Japanese American Reparations, John Tateishi recounts the fight for justice in the wake of World War II internment camps.

The Glass Hotel, by Emily St. John Mandel

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In 'The Glass Hotel,' The Disasters Are Smaller But Still Disruptive

7:00am March 24, 2020

by Michael Schaub

Emily St. John Mandel's powerful new novel follows a troubled brother and sister who get involved with a crooked hotel magnate whose Ponzi scheme destroys the lives of his investors.

Woody Allen's Book Published Amid #MeToo Backlash

9:55pm March 23, 2020

by Ted Robbins

Arcade has put out hardcover and e-book editions of the memoir. It had been dropped earlier by Hachette Publishing after company employees, along with author and Allen's son Ronan Farrow, protested.