Neda Ulibi

Tracy Kidder's breakthrough book came out in 1981.

The Soul of a New Machine is about the development of a then-unusual device known as a computer.

Kidder on NPR the year the book came out.

Now it's considered a tech classic.

He went on to write a book about a year he spent immersed in a low-income fifth-grade classroom.

And he wrote influential books about people on the front lines of what he called morality and medicine.

His biography of humanitarian Dr. Paul Farmer, Mountains Beyond Mountains, came out in 2003.

Tracy Kidder died Tuesday of lung cancer.

He was 80 years old.

Netta Ulibi, NPR News.

The parade is being broadcast on NBC stations and streamed online on Peacock once in the morning and again in the afternoon.

If you cannot be there to record it for social media.

Last year's telecast brought in more than 31 million viewers.

Thanksgiving, it seems, is for television as well as for turkey.

It's one of the biggest TV viewing days of the year.

The Macy's Thanksgiving parade for 2025 will feature 34 giant balloons and more than two dozen floats, many of which serve as enormous mobile advertisements for various things.

Celebrities set to perform and promote their projects include stars from the films Wicked for Good and K-Pop Demon Hunters.

Netta Ulibi, NPR News.