Andrew Limbong
speaker
279 appearances
31 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 6d ago
Andrew Limbong’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 19 in all, peaking in Sep 2026 with 11.
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How many minutes can you pump your legs and wave your arms around and stay afloat?
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As someone who learned to swim as an adult, uh, my time isn't great, but it feels like forever.
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The protagonist in today's novel has to be able to last a while, because the book opens and he's stranded in the water, in the middle of nowhere.
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The book is called Man Overboard by Kathleen Rooney, and while our hero floats and treads and stays alive.
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He does have time to re examine his life, both with horror and with some good humor.
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Rooney talks to NPR Scott Simon about the importance of mixing the funny with the sad after the break.
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Hey, it's Empire's Book of the Day.
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I'm Andrew Limbaugh.
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I spent the week, just like you probably have, reading remembrances and reflections on Dolly Parton, the country superstar who died on Tuesday.
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And an aspect of her life that I think has gone a bit overlooked is her writing.
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Particularly post-2020, she published a lot of writing, mostly kids' books, but also a novel, a cookbook, a coffee table book about her fashion.
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So today on the pod, we are going to write that wrong.
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In a bit, an interview with Parton about her children's book, Billy the Kid Makes It Big.
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But first, something for the grown-ups.
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In 2022, she teamed up with none other than James Patterson to write a novel titled Run, Rose, Run by a country singer who moves to the big city of Nashville to make it big.
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The two joined NPR's Rachel Mard to talk about the book and why it was important to highlight the non-superstars in Nashville who make the music industry work.
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That's up ahead.
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If you're into Dolly Parton and books, you probably already know about her Imagination Library, the program that sends free books to kids five and younger.
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She talks about it in this interview about her children's book, Billy the Kid Makes It Big, about a dog who, you guessed it, wants to make it in music.
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Here's NPR's Melissa Block.
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