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'Afrominimalist' author on why it's best to live with less

6:27pm January 22, 2022

NPR's Michel Martin talks with Christine Platt, author of The Afrominimalist's Guide to Living With Less, about how to declutter and why it's especially important for communities of color.

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Catching up with the author of 'Journal For Jordan,' a memoir turned movie

5:04pm January 22, 2022

The new film is based on the bestselling memoir by Dana Canedy. She tells NPR's Michel Martin about the film's release and the story of love and devotion at the center of it.

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'Girl, Woman, Other' author Bernardine Evaristo on new memoir about perseverance

5:04pm January 22, 2022

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo about her new book, Manifesto: On Never Giving Up.

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Edmund White's new novel 'A Previous Life' is a steamy, but very real, romance story

10:07am January 22, 2022

by Scott Simon

Scott Simon asks Edmund White about his new novel, "A Previous Life."

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Remembering André Leon Talley, a titan of the fashion world

1:32pm January 21, 2022

by Terry Gross

The former creative director at Vogue magazine and larger-than-life fashion influencer died Jan. 18. Talley spoke to Fresh Air in 2018 about growing up in Durham, N.C., and discovering fashion.

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'Joan Is Okay,' explores the meaning of home, having roots

12:02pm January 21, 2022

by Thúy Đinh

By exploring the spectrum of commitment in this book, and in her debut novel Chemistry, Weike Wang has shown us myriad ways to build a sense of home, myriad ways to feel okay in our skin.

Dave Eggers: How Can Kids Learn Human Skills in a Tech-Dominated World?

10:07am January 21, 2022

Fiction can serve as a window into multiple realities--to imagine different futures or understand our own past. This hour, author Dave Eggers talks tech, education, and the healing power of writing.

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Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World, by Peter S. Goodman

'Davos Man' is an angry, powerful look at economic inequality

11:40am January 20, 2022

by Michael Schaub

New York Times writer Peter S. Goodman does not like Davos Man. At all. And his new book does an excellent job explaining why — focusing on the rich getting richer as the COVID-19 pandemic raged.

Carl Erik Fisher, psychiatrist and author of The Urge: A History of Addiction.

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'The Urge' says calling addiction a disease is misleading

6:02am January 20, 2022

by Jeevika Verma

A psychiatrist says calling it a disease takes important attention away from racism and other things that are often associated with addiction.

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Why finding the missing pieces of Anne Frank's family story is still important today

6:37pm January 19, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with author Rosemary Sullivan about working on a book that potentially reveals who betrayed Jewish teenage diarist Anne Frank and her family.