NPR's Book of the Day

'Pig Years' and 'What the Chicken Knows' consider the interior worlds of farm animals

29 Nov 2024

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Today's books take readers into the secret lives of farm animals. The first, Pig Years, is a memoir by the writer Ellen Gaydos, who began working as a...

A new cookbook from food journalist Mark Bittman invites kids into the kitchen

28 Nov 2024

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Cooking with young kids can be a mess, but embracing this idea is the point of Mark Bittman's new cookbook. In How to Cook Everything Kids, the journa...

In 'Growing Up Urkel,' actor Jaleel White reflects on a career-defining role

27 Nov 2024

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Steve Urkel, the nerdy, bespectacled neighbor in Family Matters, is one of '90s television's most iconic characters. Urkel's nasally voice, oversized ...

NPR staffers pick their favorite reads of the year

26 Nov 2024

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The 2024 edition of Books We Love is here. Each year, NPR staffers and critics submit their favorite reads of the year across genres. Those selections...

Bonnie Kistler's new thriller explores ageism from the lens of a murder

25 Nov 2024

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Kate's new husband, who she reunites with 50 years after they were high school sweethearts, has just confessed that he was behind the Tylenol murders ...

Two nonfiction books take critical views of bankruptcy and microlending systems

22 Nov 2024

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Two nonfiction books question the efficacy of financial systems that are meant to help lift people out of poverty. In Unjust Debts, law professor Meli...

'Say Nothing' tells the story of 'The Troubles' through one woman's murder

21 Nov 2024

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In the late 1900s, Protestants and Catholics were in conflict over who should rule Northern Ireland, the British or the Irish. The time was dubbed "Th...

In 'Citizen,' former President Clinton reflects on his post-White House years

20 Nov 2024

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Since leaving the White House more than two decades ago, Bill Clinton has remained a leader in the Democratic Party, but has mostly focused on philant...

In a new version of 'The Cake Bible,' Rose Levy Beranbaum updates a culinary classic

19 Nov 2024

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When Rose Levy Beranbaum's The Cake Bible was first published in 1988, it took the baking world by storm. It was the first cake book to list ingredien...

In the new novel 'Pony Confidential,' a crime-solving pony seeks revenge

18 Nov 2024

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Pony Confidential, a new novel by author Christina Lynch, is about an unlikely detective: a crime-solving pony who sets off to find his long-lost firs...

Two new books on Johnny Carson and Shirley MacLaine offer intimate views of celebrity

15 Nov 2024

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New books focused on Johnny Carson and Shirley MacLaine offer intimate portraits of two of television and Hollywood's biggest stars. Johnny Carson hos...

Brit Barron's new book is a guide on maintaining relationships in a polarized world

14 Nov 2024

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We live in a time where it can be difficult to maintain good relationships with people with opposing views. While writing her new book, Do You Still T...

With 'Mystical Lotería,' Yvette Montoya reimagines a traditional Latino party game

13 Nov 2024

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Author Yvette Montoya didn't grow up playing Lotería, but she discovered the classic Latino party game in college. There, she fell in love with Loter...

A parenting book by author Kelley Coleman focuses on the care of disabled children

12 Nov 2024

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Parents of disabled children are responsible for navigating a number of complex systems, from educational services and accommodation to medical care. ...

A shocking discovery follows an artist's death in Paula Hawkins' 'The Blue Hour'

11 Nov 2024

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Author Paula Hawkins is best known for her 2015 novel The Girl on the Train. Her new book, The Blue Hour, is also a thriller, this time set on a remot...

'Tías and Primas' and 'Linguaphile' are new nonfiction books on family and language

08 Nov 2024

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Two new nonfiction books blend research and memoir to explore ideas of family, language and culture. Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez's Tías and Prima...

'Big Jim and the White Boy,' a new graphic novel, reinterprets a Mark Twain classic

07 Nov 2024

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Since its publication in 1885, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been celebrated as one of the great American works of literature. But the novel has ...

Stanley Tucci records 12 months of eating in his food diary 'What I Ate in One Year'

06 Nov 2024

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Stanley Tucci of Searching for Italy and The Devil Wears Prada fame loves food—especially the comforting taste of home-cooked Italian cuisine. But i...

In Winsome Bingham's 'The Walk,' a community bands together to head to the polls

05 Nov 2024

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Author Winsome Bingham was raised in a community that gathered together to vote. But as a kid, she didn't realize how important this practice was to h...

Bob Woodward's new book 'War' invites readers into a world of back-channel diplomacy

04 Nov 2024

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It's been 50 years since the publication of All the President's Men, but journalist Bob Woodward says he hasn't changed his approach to political repo...

'Patriot' is a posthumous memoir by the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny

01 Nov 2024

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Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader, died in a Siberian prison this past February–and in his diary entries, Navalny wrote that he knew he ...

'American Scary' documents a cultural obsession with horror in the United States

31 Oct 2024

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Horror and scary stories are part of a long American tradition that dates back to the Salem witch trials. Columbia professor and cultural historian Je...

In 'Ottolenghi Comfort,' Yotam Ottolenghi takes an expansive view of comfort food

30 Oct 2024

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Yotam Ottolenghi's books are a fixture on the shelves of many home cooks. In his latest cookbook, written with co-authors Helen Goh, Verena Lochmuller...

Al Pacino's memoir 'Sonny Boy' is a story of adventure, starting in the South Bronx

29 Oct 2024

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Al Pacino's childhood was spent in a tough neighborhood in the South Bronx. But he grew up among a crew of wild kids who often found themselves on adv...

Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha bears witness to war in 'Forest of Noise'

28 Oct 2024

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Since the war in Gaza began, Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha says he has not lived a normal life. He lost 31 members of his extended family in an airs...

Rebecca Yarros on literary tropes, writing through chronic illness and 'Fourth Wing'

26 Oct 2024

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Rebecca Yarros is the author of The Empyrean series, a wildly popular collection of "romantasy" novels. In a conversation with NPR's Emily Kwong at th...

In new children's books from Trevor Noah and Travis Jonker, adventure is not far off

25 Oct 2024

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In two new children's books, characters discover worlds of adventure just outside their doorsteps. Trevor Noah's first picture book, Into the Uncut Gr...

A new biography portrays Queen Elizabeth II as the British public's emotional anchor

24 Oct 2024

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Author and essayist Craig Brown is perhaps best known for his sketch comedy writing and satirical columns poking fun at the British government. But he...

'How Women Made Music' reexamines the history of music with women at its center

23 Oct 2024

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Earlier this week, several legendary female artists–including Cher, Mary J. Blige and Big Mama Thornton–were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of...

With a new cookbook, TikTok creator Owen Han aims to perfect the art of the sandwich

22 Oct 2024

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Owen Han used to work in hospitals, but his life changed in 2020 when his father died. Motivated by his late father's encouragement to pursue his pass...

'The Indian Card' explores the question of Native identity in the United States

21 Oct 2024

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Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz is a self-proclaimed data nerd. So, when she started work on a project on Native identity, she turned to the Census data. Qui...

Food meets family in new books from Ina Garten and Stephen Colbert

18 Oct 2024

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Ina Garten and Stephen Colbert share some big commonalities. They've both had long and successful careers in television, they're friends–and they lo...

'Twenty-Four Seconds from Now' is a love story for Black boys–and everyone else, too

17 Oct 2024

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Earlier this month, novelist and poet Jason Reynolds received a grant from the MacArthur Foundation for his work "depicting the rich inner lives of ki...

In 'In Praise of Mystery,' U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón looks to the stars

16 Oct 2024

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NASA's Europa Clipper took off earlier this week, headed for Jupiter's fourth-largest moon. Etched on the outside of the spacecraft is a poem by U.S. ...

Malcolm Gladwell revisits old ideas in a new book, 'Revenge of the Tipping Point'

15 Oct 2024

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When Malcolm Gladwell released The Tipping Point in 2000, the book became a huge bestseller–and Gladwell became a star. Nearly a quarter-century lat...

Han Kang, winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in literature, on her novel 'The Vegetarian'

14 Oct 2024

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South Korean author Han Kang is this year's recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature, making her the first Korean writer to win the award. In its ci...

American Library Association president Cindy Hohl on why book bans are hard to stop

11 Oct 2024

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Cindy Hohl, the current president of the American Library Association, says the political temperature surrounding book bans has remained at a boiling ...

In Simone St. James' 'Murder Road,' a lakeside honeymoon turns into a murder mystery

10 Oct 2024

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In 1995, a mostly pre-digital age, it was much easier to get lost–especially on a strange road in the middle of the night. This time period is the s...

'Building Material' is the memoir of a Park Avenue doorman

09 Oct 2024

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Stephen Bruno is a doorman for a high-end building on Manhattan's Park Avenue, where he's worked for 14 years. Bruno says that while he treats every o...

Jules Feiffer, 'The Phantom Tollbooth' illustrator, is out with a new graphic novel

08 Oct 2024

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Jules Feiffer has been drawing and writing for a living since he was 17 years old. Now 95, the illustrator behind The Phantom Tollbooth is out with hi...

'How to Build a Fashion Icon' is stylist Law Roach's guide to image architecture

07 Oct 2024

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Stylist Law Roach grew up in Chicago watching his grandmother get ready for church. He said observing her process first exposed him to the art form of...

'Hope for Cynics' and 'On Freedom' ask big-picture questions about how we live

04 Oct 2024

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In today's episode, two new nonfiction books take on big themes: cynicism and freedom. In his new book, Hope for Cynics, Stanford psychology professor...

In 'We Solve Murders,' Richard Osman introduces a new detective trio

03 Oct 2024

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Richard Osman is the author of the popular Thursday Murder Club book series. But despite the success of that project, Osman said he wanted to spread h...

Lyndsay Rush's new book of poems, 'A Bit Much,' was written for poetry skeptics

02 Oct 2024

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Lyndsay Rush was never a big fan of poetry. But after discovering the world of internet poets through Instagram, she discovered that writing poetry co...

Ta-Nehisi Coates returns to political writing in his new book 'The Message'

01 Oct 2024

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Ta-Nehisi Coates is no stranger to political writing–or controversy. But his new book, The Message, marks the author's return to nonfiction almost a...

Richard Powers' new novel 'Playground' is filled with awe for the ocean

30 Sep 2024

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In Richard Powers' new novel Playground, technology and the environment meet on the island of Makatea in French Polynesia. The book weaves stories tog...

Newbery Medalist Meg Medina and NBA star Jayson Tatum are out with children's books

27 Sep 2024

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Newbery Medalist Meg Medina remembers her childhood babysitter perfectly. Medina called her Señora Mimí–and now, the author is celebrating caregiv...

'What If We Get It Right?' envisions new possibilities for our climate future

26 Sep 2024

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It can be difficult to feel optimistic when faced with the existential threat of climate change. But a new book from marine biologist and writer Ayana...

In the new book 'Want,' Gillian Anderson collects other women's sexual fantasies

25 Sep 2024

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The actress Gillian Anderson plays a sex therapist on Netflix's Sex Education. Now, in her off-screen life, Anderson has taken on a similar role: gath...

'City in Ruins' is the finale of the Danny Ryan trilogy–and of Don Winslow's career

24 Sep 2024

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Novelist Don Winslow says City in Ruins is his last book. The third novel in the author's Danny Ryan trilogy completes the series, a contemporary crim...

In 'Who's That Girl?' Eve reflects on her time in a male-dominated hip-hop industry

23 Sep 2024

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With songs like "Let Me Blow Ya Mind," "Satisfaction" and "Tambourine," Eve's music was a staple of early 2000s hip-hop. In her new memoir, Who's That...

James McBride on music, writing and 'The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store'

20 Sep 2024

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James McBride, the literary giant and author of books like The Color of Water and Deacon King Kong, was awarded this year's Library of Congress Prize ...

'Represent' charts the United States' long struggle for the right to vote

19 Sep 2024

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Election denialism and myths of voter fraud have long been part of the history of the United States. In their new book, Represent: The Unfinished Figh...

In 'Entitlement,' a young woman helps an elderly billionaire give away his fortune

18 Sep 2024

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In Rumaan Alam's new novel, Entitlement, Brooke, a former teacher, is given a rare opportunity. She takes a job with an 83-year-old billionaire and is...

Venus Williams' new book 'Strive' is a personal guide to physical and mental health

17 Sep 2024

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Tennis legend Venus Williams has a lot on her plate. There's her tennis career, of course, but also business pursuits in fashion, interior design, nai...

Rachel Kushner's new novel 'Creation Lake' is inspired by real-life espionage

16 Sep 2024

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Rachel Kushner's new novel, Creation Lake, has all the makings of a great spy thriller: a cool and unknowable secret agent, a mysterious figure who co...

'At War with Ourselves' and 'Broken Open' are memoirs chronicling internal conflict

13 Sep 2024

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New memoirs by former National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster and recovery advocate William Cope Moyers document conflicts of different kinds. In At ...

'The Museum of Failures' follows a father-to-be as he stumbles upon family secrets

12 Sep 2024

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The Museum of Failures follows Remy Wadia, an Indian American ad executive who left India for the United States years ago. But when Remy returns to Bo...

In 'The Stories We Cannot Tell,' difficult pregnancies unite two very different women

11 Sep 2024

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Over 25 years ago, author Leslie Rasmussen connected with a stranger over challenges with their fertility. That friendship inspired her 2023 novel, Th...

In 'We're Alone,' Edwidge Danticat's essays extend an invitation to be together

10 Sep 2024

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Edwidge Danticat is known for her novels and short stories. But her new book, We're Alone, is a collection of eight wide-ranging essays. These essays ...

'A Pair of Wings' draws inspiration from Bessie Coleman, the first Black woman to fly

09 Sep 2024

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Carole Hopson wanted to be a pilot since childhood, but it wasn't until her mid-30s that she learned about Bessie Coleman, the first Black woman to ea...

'Anything's Pastable' and 'My Life in Recipes' explore viral pasta and family history

06 Sep 2024

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Anything's Pastable and My Life in Recipes, new cookbooks from Dan Pashman and Joan Nathan, get personal in very different ways. Pashman, the James Be...

'Eruption' is a collaboration between Michael Crichton and James Patterson

05 Sep 2024

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Jurassic Park creator Michael Crichton spent years working on a manuscript about a volcano on the verge of a disastrous eruption in Hawaii. After he d...

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson talks Supreme Court ethics, family in 'Lovely One'

04 Sep 2024

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Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson remembers her first brush with the national spotlight as "white hot." When President Biden nomin...

'The Instrumentalist' is a story about music, imagination and Anna Maria della Pietà

03 Sep 2024

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Harriet Constable learned a lot about the real life of Anna Maria della Pietà — that she grew up in an orphanage, that she was a star violinist and...

'Ruin their Crops on the Ground' tracks the history and politics of food in the U.S.

02 Sep 2024

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Food is a source of nourishment, joy and autonomy for a lot of people – but in her new book, Ruin their Crops on the Ground, Andrea Freeman also tra...

'The 15-Minute City' and 'Rethinking Rescue' reimagine existing systems

30 Aug 2024

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Today's episode features two books that advocate for new approaches to big problems: urban planning, poverty, and dog rescue. First, Here & Now's Scot...

'How to Leave the House' follows a quest for a missing package

29 Aug 2024

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Natwest, 23, is about to finally leave for university. But a package he's waiting for has gone missing and – fearing humiliation if its contents are...

In 'On the Edge,' Nate Silver analyzes professional risk-takers

28 Aug 2024

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What do hedge fund managers, poker players and the scientist behind the mRNA vaccine have in common? In his new book, On the Edge: The Art of Risking ...

'Hurdles in the Dark' is a memoir about a kidnapping, juvenile detention and racing

27 Aug 2024

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Elvira K. Gonzalez says there was a lot of beauty to growing up in the culturally rich border town of Laredo, Texas. But there were some challenges, t...

Graphic novel 'Einstein in Kafkaland' ponders how two great minds met in Prague

26 Aug 2024

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From 1911 to 1912, Albert Einstein and Franz Kafka both lived in Prague. A new graphic novel by Ken Krimstein uses both history and artistic imaginati...

'Us, After' and 'A Haunted Girl' tackle mental health

23 Aug 2024

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Warning: this episode contains mention of suicide and mental illness. If you or someone you know may be considering suicide or is in crisis, call or t...

Gabino Iglesias' 'House of Bone and Rain' is a tale of vengeance in Puerto Rico

22 Aug 2024

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Bram Stoker Award-winning author, Gabino Iglesias, knows what it's like for grief and anger to turn deadly. That's what he explores in his new novel, ...

'Drawn Testimony' is a courtroom sketch artist's memoir spanning 40 years

21 Aug 2024

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Courtroom sketch artist Jane Rosenberg has worked on some of the biggest trials of the last 40 years, drawing the likes of Martha Stewart, Jeffrey Eps...

Rufaro Faith Mazarura's 'Let the Games Begin' is a rom-com set in the Olympic village

20 Aug 2024

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The fictional Olympics at the heart of Rufaro Faith Mazarura's novel, Let the Games Begin, kick off in Athens. And in the middle of one of the most im...

'We Were Illegal' examines Texas history through multiple generations of one family

19 Aug 2024

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After she worked on a book about refugee resettlement in the U.S., writer Jessica Goudeau says she realized she knew very little about how her own fam...

Two books revisit the cultural impacts of Tina Turner, Duke Ellington and more

16 Aug 2024

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Today's episode highlights two books that revisit the cultural contributions of some pretty big names. First, Here & Now's Deepa Fernandes speaks with...

Sheetal Sheth pens a children's book about Raksha Bandhan in 'Raashi's Rakhis'

15 Aug 2024

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The Hindu holiday Raksha Bandhan is just around the corner – and in a new children's book called Raashi's Rakhis, actor and activist Sheetal Sheth w...

In 'Bringing Ben Home,' Barbara Bradley Hagerty examines a wrongful conviction

14 Aug 2024

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In 1987, a Black 22-year-old named Ben Spencer was convicted of murdering a white man in Texas. In 2021, he was cleared of those charges and released ...

In 'Five-Star Stranger,' a man gets hired on an app to pretend to be a girl's father

13 Aug 2024

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There's an app for everything. In Kat Tang's debut novel Five-Star Stranger, there's even one that allows you to hire someone you've never met to play...

In 'Midnight in Moscow,' a U.S. ambassador recounts his time in Russia

12 Aug 2024

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John J. Sullivan served as U.S. ambassador to Russia from 2019 to 2022. He was there during Russia's invasion of Ukraine – and he writes about that ...

Nancy Pelosi opens up about how she wields 'The Art of Power'

09 Aug 2024

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Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi says her new book, The Art of Power, is not a memoir. Instead, she says, it's an inside look at specific mome...

M.T. Anderson's 'Nicked' follows a heist to steal the bones of Saint Nicholas

08 Aug 2024

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National Book Award winner M.T. Anderson has written his first novel for adults. Nicked is set in 1087 and follows a monk and treasure hunter looking ...

Juli Min's novel 'Shanghailanders' unfolds in reverse

07 Aug 2024

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At the start of Juli Min's debut novel, it's 2040 in Shanghai, and a wealthy real estate developer is parting ways with his wife and adult daughters a...

Cory Richards' memoir covers mountains, photography and mental health

06 Aug 2024

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Cory Richards made a name for himself taking photographs across the globe for National Geographic. His new memoir, The Color of Everything, grapples w...

Sarah Perry's 'Enlightenment' ponders faith, astronomy and friendship

05 Aug 2024

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Sarah Perry's novel, Enlightenment, recently received a Booker Prize nomination. It follows the relationship between two friends, with a 30 year age d...

Novels by Claire Lombardo and Catherine Newman explore different stages of motherhood

02 Aug 2024

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Today's episode highlights two books that deal with what it means to be a mom, a wife and a multi-faceted, complicated woman. First, NPR's Danielle Ku...

'The Boiling Moat' plants a military strategy to prevent China's capture of Taiwan

01 Aug 2024

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Matt Pottinger used to cover China for Reuters and The Wall Street Journal before working as a deputy national security advisor for the Trump administ...

Jon M. Chu's memoir 'Viewfinder' traces his journey to making movies

31 Jul 2024

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Before he was the director behind films like Crazy Rich Asians, In the Heights and Wicked, Jon M. Chu was a teenager in Los Altos, California, playing...

In 'Liars,' Sarah Manguso explores a marriage falling apart

30 Jul 2024

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When author Sarah Manguso was going through a divorce a few years ago, she says she put her rage into writing her novel Liars. It's about the dissolut...

Stephen Graham Jones explores a new side of horror in 'I Was a Teenage Slasher'

29 Jul 2024

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A small Texas town in the late 1980s, two teenagers on the outside of the social scene, and a curse for revenge. That's the setup for Stephen Graham J...

Riley Sager and Johanna Copeland set thrillers in suburbia

26 Jul 2024

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Today's episode features two page-turners full of suspense. First, NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with Todd Ritter – who publishes as Riley Sager – about...

Khushbu Shah's cookbook 'Amrikan' honors the Indian American diaspora

25 Jul 2024

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Today's episode is packed with recipes from Khushbu Shah's new cookbook, Amrikan. But beyond that, it's also a conversation with the author and Here &...

A look back at Vice President Kamala Harris' memoir, 'The Truths We Hold'

24 Jul 2024

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On Sunday, President Joe Biden announced he was stepping down from his campaign for reelection this November. Soon after, he endorsed Vice President K...

Joyce Maynard follows 'Count the Ways' with 'How the Light Gets In'

23 Jul 2024

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Joyce Maynard's new book, How the Light Gets In, is a sequel to her 2021 novel Count the Ways, both following a family grappling with a tragic acciden...

Griffin Dunne's memoir chronicles fame, art and tragedy in his Hollywood upbringing

22 Jul 2024

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Actor, producer and director Griffin Dunne grew up during a fascinating time in Hollywood history. In today's episode, he tells Here & Now's Emiko Tam...

Two summer mysteries unravel in 'The Cliffs' and 'The God of the Woods'

19 Jul 2024

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Today's episode focuses on two summer reads trying to piece together some pretty big questions. First, NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with J. Courtney...

'We Were Once a Family' examines how the foster care system failed the Hart siblings

18 Jul 2024

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In 2018, Jennifer and Sarah Hart drove off a cliff in California, killing themselves and their six adopted children. While much of the media attention...

Revisiting J.D. Vance's memoir, 'Hillbilly Elegy'

17 Jul 2024

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This week, former President Donald Trump announced that Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance will be his running mate in the 2024 election. Vance rose to prominence w...

'Ultraviolet' follows a young boy going through puberty and first love

16 Jul 2024

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Aida Salazar's new book, Ultraviolet, has a lot in common with Judy Blume's Forever, but from the point of view of an eighth grade boy; it's all about...