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'Light Perpetual' Imagines Adulthood For 5 Fictional Kids Killed In WWII Attack

12:33pm June 22, 2021

by Maureen Corrigan

In 1944 an attack on a London Woolworths killed 168 people. In his new novel, Francis Spufford explores what "might have been" for five young casualties of war.

In 'The Last Ballad,' Wiley Cash Explores North Carolina Labor History

2:12pm October 23, 2017

by Eddie Garcia

North Carolina author Wiley Cash's new novel focuses on a significant moment in the state's labor history.

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Imagining The Power Of Edouard Manet's 'Very Active Muse'

3:04pm April 25, 2015

by NPR Staff

Maureen Gibbon's new novel, Paris Red, delves into the life of Victorine Meurent, Manet's favorite model and the central figure in some of his most famous paintings.

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Fact Meets Fiction In Tale Of A Slave, Explorer And Survivor

4:56pm September 12, 2014

by NPR Staff

A Moroccan slave named Estebanico was one of only four men to survive a 1528 expedition to America from Spain. The Moor's Account, a fictional memoir by Laila Lalami, tells the story through his eyes.

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