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A Tale Of Revenge, Magic And Nuance, All 'Woven In Moonlight'

7:00am January 08, 2020

by Caitlyn Paxson

Isabel Ibañez's debut novel blends fiber art magic and Bolivian-inspired fantasy, for a story that seems at first to be about revenge — but blossoms into something more complex and surprising.

Author Peggy Orenstein's new book, Boys & Sex, is based on extensive interviews with more than 100 college and college-bound boys and young men across the U.S. between the ages of 16 and 22 on intimacy, consent and navigating masculinity. They spanned a b

'Boys & Sex' Reveals That Young Men Feel 'Cut Off From Their Hearts'

5:51pm January 07, 2020

by Terry Gross

Author Peggy Orenstein spoke to more than 100 young men of diverse backgrounds about sex, porn, gender and intimacy. Boys, she found, often lack "permission or space" to discuss their interior lives.

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Behind The Kushners And The Trumps With 'American Oligarchs' Author Andrea Bernstein

5:40pm January 07, 2020

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Andrea Bernstein, a host of the podcast Trump, Inc., about her new book American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps and the Marriage of Money And Power.

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Elizabeth Wurtzel, Bestselling Author Of 'Prozac Nation,' Dies At 52

5:40pm January 07, 2020

Bestselling author Elizabeth Wurtzel was 27 when Prozac Nation, her sensational memoir of a difficult life complicated by depression, was published. Wurtzel had cancer. She died Tuesday at age 52.

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Elizabeth Wurtzel, Who Stirred Conversation With 'Prozac Nation,' Dies At 52

3:14pm January 07, 2020

by Colin Dwyer

The 1994 memoir opened a national dialogue about clinical depression and introduced readers to Wurtzel's brash, unapologetic voice. Wurtzel died of breast cancer at a Manhattan hospital Tuesday.

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There's Heart Amid The Ruins Of 'The Heap'

12:51pm January 07, 2020

by Jason Heller

Sean Adams' debut novel is set in the collapsed remains of a gargantuan, 500-story building somewhere in the American desert, once an entire metropolis and now surrounded by scavenger camps.

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The 1A Movie Club Sees 'Little Women'

12:37pm January 07, 2020

Greta Gerwig's 2019 adaptation breathes new life into Louisa May Alcott's classic story of family, love and future.

Topics of Conversation, by Miranda Popkey

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There's Plenty To Talk About In 'Topics Of Conversation'

10:00am January 07, 2020

by Heller McAlpin

Miranda Popkey's novel tackles the complicated issues of female desire, sex and failed relationships through a troubled, unnamed narrator who reports on her conversations with a series of other women.

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'Why We Can't Sleep' Documents The Unique Pressures On Gen X Women

6:03am January 07, 2020

by Rachel Martin

Ada Calhoun talked to a lot of Gen X women about the angst they feel as they approach midlife — the pressure to have it all and the feeling that they should have done better for themselves.

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Miranda Popkey On 'Topics Of Conversation'

7:59am January 05, 2020

NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with debut novelist Miranda Popkey about her new book, Topics of Conversation.