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Cover detail from Howard Stern Comes Again, by Howard Stern.

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Howard Stern Tells Terry Gross His 'Pure Id' Days Are Behind Him

2:09pm May 14, 2019

by Terry Gross

Stern says he's not the raunchy shock jock he once was. "If I hadn't grown and evolved and changed ... I don't know that I could still be on the radio." His new book is Howard Stern Comes Again.

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A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father, by David Maraniss

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In 'A Good American Family,' A Son Details How The Red Scare Upended His Father

11:55am May 14, 2019

by Mark Katkov

Pulitzer prize-winning David Maraniss immerses himself in family records and interviews with relatives of others to piece together how his parents paid for supporting communism in their youth.

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David Brooks On Climbing Toward Faith

3:11pm May 13, 2019

2013 was not a good year for the *New York Times* columnist. But then, things changed.

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An Ethereal Child Causes Earthly Problems In 'Lanny'

7:00am May 13, 2019

by Heller McAlpin

Max Porter's propulsive, original new novel is set in a small, seemingly idyllic English village that quickly turns darker when the whimsical young son of a newly-arrived couple goes missing.

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A Fictional Biography In 'Life Of David Hockney'

11:41am May 12, 2019

David Hockney is one of the most influential artists of his time. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to Catherine Cusset about her latest novel, a fictionalized biography, Life of David Hockney.

Halley's Comet, photographed by the Soviet probe "Vega" in 1986.

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Hansel, Gretel And Halley's Comet Link The Tales In 'Alternate Endings'

10:00am May 12, 2019

by Ilana Masad

The storylines in Lindsey Drager's new novel take place across a millennium, from a version of Hansel and Gretel wandering the woods in 1378 to a girl fetching water on the dying earth of 2136.

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Did This Novel About LSD Trials Get It Right? We Ask Someone Who Was There

9:04am May 12, 2019

by Tom Vitale

T.C. Boyle's Outside Looking In fictionalizes Timothy Leary's hallucinogenic drug experiments in the 1960s. A graduate student who participated says Boyle did a "great job describing the zeitgeist."

"We go into parenting expecting something like parity ... but it doesn't manifest," says psychologist Darcy Lockman. "Our expectations are really not being met and that leads to a lot of anger."

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'All The Rage' Isn't About Moms Having It All — It's About Moms Doing It All

8:25am May 12, 2019

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

Psychologist Darcy Lockman says there's been progress since the 1950s, but equal partnerships are a long way off. Her book All the Rage explores uneven distribution of childcare and domestic labor.

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Plutocracy, Not Theocracy Compels The Handmaids Of 'The Farm'

7:00am May 12, 2019

by Jean Zimmerman

Joanne Ramos builds her own experience into this story of a young Filipino woman who ends up on a seemingly cushy "gestational retreat" where women — called "hosts" — carry babies for rich families.

With the Fire on High, by Elizabeth Acevedo

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'With The Fire On High' Cooks Up A Powerful Message

10:00am May 11, 2019

by Caitlyn Paxson

Elizabeth Acevedo follows up her National Book Award-winning The Poet X with this story of a young woman juggling high school, single motherhood, and work while dreaming of becoming a chef.