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    Simon Says
    When F. Scott Fitzgerald published <em>The Great Gatsby</em> in 1925, it didn't sell many copies. Now it's sold nearly 30 million.
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    Opinion: 'The Great Gatsby' Enters Public Domain But It Already Entered Our Hearts

    Jan 02, 2021
    NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the legacy of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. The literary classic's copyright expired on the first day of 2021.
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    Are You There God? It's Me, Juanita
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    The Kids' Books That Helped 2020 Go By — And A Few To Look Forward To

    Dec 29, 2020
    As the year draws to a close, our kids' books columnist Juanita Giles looks back at some of the books that helped her family get through 2020 — and ahead to some exciting titles for next year.
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    Obituaries
    Barry Lopez won the National Book Award in 1986 for <em>Arctic Dreams</em>.
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    Barry Lopez, Acclaimed Author And Traveler Beyond Many Horizons, Dies At 75

    Dec 26, 2020
    Lopez — who won a National Book Award in 1986 for Arctic Dreams — wrote about his travels to far places. But his writings aren't just travelogues, they remind us of how precious life on Earth is.
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    Shirley Jackson's Son On His Mother's Newly Discovered Short Story

    Dec 19, 2020
    NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Laurence Hyman, son of Shirley Jackson, about his mother's recently discovered short story which was recently published in The Strand Magazine.
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    Latinx Authors Celebrated In Virtual Children's Book Fest

    Dec 12, 2020
    Las Musas, the Muses, is a group of Latina writers who held their first LatinX KidLit Book Festival to celebrate authors, illustrators and books by and about LatinX people.
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    The Tattered Cover's location in Littleton, Colo.
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    Denver's Tattered Cover Becomes Nation's Largest Black-Owned Indie Bookstore

    Dec 10, 2020
    The beloved local chain, founded in 1971, has had a rough year, including severe revenue losses during the pandemic. Its new owners are led by two Denver natives and self-described high school rivals.
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    NPR's Book Concierge Is Back For Another Year Of Reading Recommendations

    Dec 08, 2020
    People looking for holiday gift ideas have a resource: the NPR Book Concierge. The interactive book finder has hundreds of titles selected by NPR critics and staff.
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    Critics Oppose Penguin Random House Acquiring Simon & Schuster

    Nov 30, 2020
    NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to literary agent Laura Zats about ViacomCBS' decision to sell its publishing arm Simon & Schuster to Penguin Random House in a $2 billion deal.
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    Are You There God? It's Me, Juanita
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    A Stutterer Finds His Voice In 'I Talk Like A River'

    Nov 28, 2020
    Jordan Scott is a poet, a master of words, and a stutterer. His new kids' book, gorgeously illustrated by Sydney Smith, chronicles his childhood journey towards coming to terms with his stutter.
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    Bob Woodward's book <em>Rage</em> was one of a wave of highly publicized books <em></em>Simon & Schuster published this year critical of President Trump.
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    Book Publisher Simon & Schuster Sold To Rival

    Nov 25, 2020
    The third largest of the "big five" book publishers, was sold by its parent company to Penguin Random House.
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    Book News & Features
    Author R.F. Kuang grounded her Poppy War books in her own interpretations of history, and her family's history.
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    In The Poppy War Series, R.F. Kuang Asks: 'What If Mao Was A Teenage Girl?'

    Nov 24, 2020
    The third volume in Kuang's Poppy War series is out now. She grounded the story in history, both her own and China's; it follows a passionate, ruthless young woman who becomes a military leader.
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    Books
    An archival postcard of the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, N.C., where much of the novel <em>Even As We Breathe</em> is set.
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    'Even As We Breathe': A First Novel From A Teacher Who Writes For Her Students

    Nov 22, 2020
    The book is a mystery of sorts, set at an upscale North Carolina resort during World War II. Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle teaches at a high school with a student population that's 30% Native American.
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    2020's National Book Awards Strive For Inclusivity

    Nov 18, 2020
    This year's National Book Awards — announced in a first-ever virtual streaming ceremony — went mostly to writers of color, as the foundation that gives the prizes vowed to be more inclusive.
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    Literary Puzzle Is Solved For The 1st Time In Nearly A Century

    Nov 11, 2020
    Cain's Jawbone is a murder mystery and its 100 pages are printed out of order. To make sense of the story, the reader must correctly re-arrange the pages. There are 32 million combinations.
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    Book News & Features
    The Aspen Words Literary Prize honors fiction that "illuminates a vital contemporary issue."
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    Exclusive: Brit Bennett, Yaa Gyasi Among Contenders For Aspen Words Literary Prize

    Nov 10, 2020
    Aspen Words — part of the Aspen Institute — has announced the longlist for this year's Aspen Words Literary Prize. The $35,000 award recognizes fiction that "illuminates a vital contemporary issue."
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    100 Years After 1st Book, Agatha Christie Continues To Be Bestselling Novelist

    Oct 30, 2020
    Agatha Christie published her first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, 100 years ago this month. Popular on the page, screen and stage, she continues to be the bestselling novelist of all time.
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    Are You There God? It's Me, Juanita
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    'Flamer' Offers Real Hope — Not Just Rainbows — To Queer Kids

    Oct 22, 2020
    Mike Curato's new young adult graphic novel Flamer follows a teenager struggling with self-hate and all the different parts of his identity — being a Catholic, a Boy Scout, and being gay.
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    'The Code For Love And Heartbreak' Isn't 'Emma' — But It Is Charming

    Oct 10, 2020
    Jillian Cantor's new YA novel lifts some of the elements of Jane Austen's classic — like character names — wholesale. But you'll enjoy it more if you don't expect the plot to follow exactly.
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    Book News & Features

    Poet Louise Glück Wins 2020 Nobel Prize In Literature

    Oct 08, 2020
    American poet Louise Glück won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature. Also a Pulitzer Prize winner, she becomes the 16th woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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    Poet Louise Glück received the the National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama in 2016. On Wednesday, Glück was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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    Nobel Prize In Literature Awarded To U.S. Poet Louise Glück

    Oct 08, 2020
    The 2020 Nobel Prize in literature was awarded to U.S. poet Louise Glück "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal."
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    Charles Yu, Kacen Callender Among National Book Award Finalists

    Oct 06, 2020
    Finalists for the National Book Award were announced today in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, literature in translation, and young people's literature. Winners are announced Nov. 18.
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    Are You There God? It's Me, Juanita
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    You Can't Send Your Kids To Dance Class Right Now, But You Can Read Them 'Bunheads'

    Sep 27, 2020
    Renowned ballerina Misty Copeland's new kids' book Bunheads draws on her own childhood experiences — if your kids love dance, it's just the thing to keep them going until classes come back.
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    Politics
    Copies of <em>The Room Where it Happened,</em> a memoir by former national security adviser John Bolton, are seen at a Barnes & Noble bookstore in Glendale, Calif., in June.
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    Grand Jury Issued Criminal Subpoenas In Connection With John Bolton Book

    Sep 15, 2020
    The move signals the Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation surrounding the publication of The Room Where It Happened after an unsuccessful effort to block it from being published.
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    Book News & Features
    <em>The House by the Lake: The True Story of a House, Its History, and the Four Families Who Made It Home,</em> by Thomas Harding. Illustrated by Britta Teckentrup
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    'The House By The Lake' Is A Story Of Reconciliation — And The Meaning Of Home

    Sep 15, 2020
    A few years ago, Thomas Harding wrote a memoir centered on what became of his great-grandparents' German house. Now he's made it into a children's book about belonging, with the home his protagonist.
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    Arts & Life
    Freeman Vines and his guitars in 2015.
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    Hanging Tree Guitars: The Wood's 'Not Good, Not Bad, Not Ugly - Just Strange'

    Sep 13, 2020
    Freeman Vines is an African American luthier who creates what have been called "contemporary art sculptures hidden as guitars" out of old wood, some of it from a tree used for a lynching.

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