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'Felon' Author Says, 'Everybody Has To Tell Their Kids Something'

5:41pm November 03, 2019

by Leila Fadel

Lawyer-poet Reginald Dwayne Betts for years hid the fact that he had served time in prison. Now, this time in his life is at the center of his new collection of poems.

In the Dream House: A Memoir, by Carmen Maria Machado

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In The 'Dream House,' Carmen Maria Machado Recounts Nightmares

3:39pm November 03, 2019

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

Carmen Maria Machado's new memoir is a haunting account of an abusive relationship with a former girlfriend. One of the hardest things in the book, she says, was acknowledging the damage it did.

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You'll Float Away On The Warm Waters Of 'The Starless Sea'

7:00am November 03, 2019

by Amal El-Mohtar

Erin Morgenstern's long-awaited followup to The Night Circus imagines a world of magical doors leading to a literal underground sea — surrounded by layers of pleasurable mystery and mythography.

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Book: 'Faith In American Public Life'

5:12pm November 02, 2019

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with author Melissa Rogers, who served as Special Assistant to President Obama and Executive Director of the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

Nesma (left) and Anys are Algerian siblings who came out to each other at a party. They live in Paris, and both identify as queer. "It now makes us stronger and committed together for the queer and Algerian causes," Anys says.

'Un-African'? Photos Challenge Notions Of LGBTQ Identity In The African Diaspora

12:55pm November 02, 2019

by Isabella Gomez Sarmiento

Mikael Owunna's new book captures the stories of LGBTQ African immigrants, refugees and asylum-seekers reconciling their identity and their heritage.

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Margaret Wilkerson Sexton On 'The Revisioners'

7:57am November 02, 2019

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton tells NPR's Scott Simon about her book The Revisioners, which reached across a century to tell the story of generations of women in a family line.

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'On Swift Horses,' Shannon Pufahl's Celebration Of Her Grandmother

7:57am November 02, 2019

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Shannon Pufahl about her debut novel, On Swift Horses, a celebration of her grandmother featuring gamblers, ponies, card sharks and unfinished highways of the West.

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Kevin Wilson Is On Fire In 'Nothing To See Here'

7:00am November 02, 2019

by Heller McAlpin

Wilson's new novel centers on a young woman taking care of two kids with a disturbing ability: When upset, they burst into flames. But in Wilson's hands, what could be scary is funny, even beautiful.

As of Friday, Macmillan Publishers Ltd. is drastically restricting the sales of eBooks to libraries.

You May Have To Wait To Borrow A New E-Book From The Library

8:03pm November 01, 2019

by Lynn Neary

Macmillan Publishers Ltd. will begin restricting sales of new e-books to libraries to one per library system for the first eight weeks after publication. Libraries are fighting back.

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Punk Icon And Memoirist Viv Albertine On A Lifetime Of Fighting The Patriarchy

2:18pm November 01, 2019

by Terry Gross

"We weren't going to try and be this constructed ideal of femininity," the Slit's guitarist says of the band. Albertine's memoir is To Throw Away Unopened. Originally broadcast July 16, 2018.

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