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Animal sexuality may not be as binary as we're led to believe, according to new book

May 24, 2022
NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Eliot Schrefer, author of Queer Ducks (And Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality. It's about how "natural sex" may not be as binary as some think.
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Elif Batuman

Elif Batuman's sequel 'Either/Or' follows a young woman's sexual awakening

May 24, 2022
Either/Or is Batuman's sequel to her bestselling Pulitzer finalist novel The Idiot.
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Novelist Emma Straub asks life's big questions in 'This Time Tomorrow'

May 23, 2022
Straub's new novel is a time-travel fantasy about a 40-year-old woman who's tending to her ailing father — until, that is, the day she's transported to her childhood home on her 16th birthday.
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LSD, vodka and burner phones fuel the shadowy world of Dan Chaon's novel 'Sleepwalk'

May 21, 2022
Scott Simon speaks with author Dan Chaon about his new novel, "Sleepwalk," about an eccentric character who finds those indebted to a shadowy corporation.
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Race

Biography examines how systemic racism shaped the troubled life of George Floyd

May 18, 2022
Floyd was murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis in 2020. Washington Post reporters Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa reconstruct the course of his life in His Name is George Floyd.
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Race
A mural of George Floyd at the intersection where he was murdered in Minneapolis, Minn.

Many know how George Floyd died. A new biography reveals how he lived

May 18, 2022
NPR's Adrian Florido talks with Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa about their new book, His Name is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice.
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On Aging

After a stroke blinded one eye, Frank Bruni focused on the future

May 17, 2022
The New York Times columnist says the stroke forced him to choose: He could focus on what had been lost, or on what remained. His memoir is The Beauty of Dusk. Originally broadcast March 22, 2022.
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Planet Money

The case for revolutionizing child care in America

May 17, 2022
A new book argues that greater public support for parents is critical for the brain development of America's kids.
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Emma Straub on using time travel to escape the pandemic in 'This Time Tomorrow'

May 16, 2022
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Emma Straub about her new novel, This Time Tomorrow, in which the central character is turning 40 — but wakes up and is age 16 again.
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Angela Davis is escorted by two FBI agents after her arrest in New York on Oct. 13, 1970. She was taken from FBI headquarters to the Women's House of Detention.

This forgotten women's prison helped cement Greenwich Village's queer identity

May 16, 2022
In his book The Women's House of Detention, Hugh Ryan writes about the New York City prison and the role it played in the gay rights movement of the '60s, including the 1969 Stonewall Uprising.
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Selma Blair's memoir, 'Mean Baby,' is the result of all the drama in her life

May 16, 2022
NPR's Rachel Martin talks to actress Selma Blair about her book. She recounts her bizarre upbringing, her battles with depression and alcoholism and her battle with multiple sclerosis.
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Timely new horror novel 'Just Like Mother' follows the escape from a motherhood cult

May 15, 2022
Ayesha Rascoe speaks with author Anne Heltzel about her gothic horror novel, "Just Like Mother," where a young woman reunites with her cousin after escaping a cult.
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'River of the Gods' dives into the 19th century British exploration of the Nile

May 14, 2022
Scott Simon talks with Candice Millard about 19th century British exploration and her new book, "River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile."
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Writer and director George Stevens Jr. releases memoir 'My Place In The Sun'

May 14, 2022
Scott Simon talks to writer and director George Stevens Jr. about his life, growing up in Hollywood, and even Elizabeth Taylor, in his memoir, "My Place In The Sun."
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Many know how George Floyd died. A new biography centers on how he lived

May 12, 2022
NPR's Adrian Florido talks with Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa about their new book, His Name is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice.
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Law

Former Attorney General Eric Holder continues the fight for voting rights

May 11, 2022
Obama's attorney general says that when it comes to voting rights, the Supreme Court has increasingly become "an impediment to justice." Holder's new book is Our Unfinished March.
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How Brooke Hayward's marriage to Dennis Hopper helped ignite the 1960s' art explosion

May 10, 2022
Mark Rozzo talks about his latest book Everybody Thought We Were Crazy. It offers a look into the relationship between Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward and their impact on 1960s Los Angeles.
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Mark Esper to speak about new memoir on All Things Considered

May 08, 2022
Monday on All Things Considered, co-host Michel Martin speaks with former Defense Secretary Mark Esper about his book, A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times.
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Code Switch
The cover of Mothercoin next to the author.

In 'Mothercoin', the labor of love transcends borders

May 08, 2022
Mothercoin, by Elizabeth Cummins Muñoz, takes an intimate look at the lives of immigrant nannies in Houston, and how their work in private homes affects their relationship with their own children.
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'No Escape' details the history of Uyghurs in China up to their modern-day oppression

May 08, 2022
Ayesha Rascoe asks Nury Turkel about his new book, "No Escape," and about China's persecution of Uyghur people inside China and across the globe.
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Two teens set out to be a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde in the new novel 'Teenager'

May 07, 2022
Scott Simon interviews writer and heavy construction worker Bud Smith about his new novel, "Teenager," in which a young couple in love hit the road on a wild road trip.
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A widow's unlikely friendship with a giant Pacific octopus

May 06, 2022
NPR's Adrian Florido talks with Shelby Van Pelt about her new novel, Remarkably Bright Creatures. It centers heartache, loss — and how friendship can help us get through that kind of pain.
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Goats and Soda
CNN international anchor Zain Asher poses with her mother, Obiajulu Ejiofor. After losing her husband in a car crash, Ejiofor raised four children with strict and innovative practices — including, when Asher was a teenager, using scissors to cut the po

CNN's Zain Asher is grateful for her mom's tough love — even if it meant no TV

May 06, 2022
Asher's dad died in a car crash in Nigeria when she was 5. Her grief-stricken mother used strict and innovative methods to raise 4 kids. Asher honors her mom in the memoir Where the Children Take Us.
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In Minnie Driver's new memoir, <em>Managing Expectations,</em> the actress shares stories about the messiness of life from her childhood in England and Barbados, to her unexpected path into acting, becoming a single mom and her complicated relationship w

Minnie Driver on the paradox of fame and her 'complicated' notion of marriage

May 04, 2022
Decades after breaking into Hollywood, Driver is ready for the world to see a little bit more of her. In her memoir she shares stories about her life from childhood to her unexpected path into acting.
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Mourners gather in Littleton, Colo., on April 20, 2021, to remember the victims of the 1999 Columbine High School shooting.

How behavioral threat assessment can stop mass shootings before they occur

May 02, 2022
Journalist Mark Follman says that understanding the psychology of shooters and intervening where appropriate can help prevent massacres from happening. His new book is Trigger Points.
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