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    Magician Derek DelGaudio Traces His Journey From Card Cheat To Illusionist

    Mar 01, 2021
    The sleight-of-hand master explores themes of identity, honesty and the emotional cost of keeping secrets in the memoir, AMORALMAN. DelGaudio's one-man show In & Of Itself is now available on Hulu.
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    Britain's MI5 Spy Agency Proves More Comic Than Tragic In 'Slough House'

    Mar 01, 2021
    Mick Herron's brilliantly plotted series follows a group of maladroit MI5 agents who've somehow blown it with the agency. The latest installment is a timely novel set in a post-Brexit U.K.
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    Journalist Explores Challenges For 'Power Moms' In New Book

    Feb 28, 2021
    NPR's Michel Martin speaks with journalist Joann Lublin about her new book, Power Moms: How Executive Mothers Navigate Work and Life.
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    'The Conductors' Is A History Buff's Dream Fantasy Novel

    Feb 28, 2021
    NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to Nicole Glover about her debut novel, The Conductors, which focuses on a couple solving crimes and mysteries using magic in post-Civil War Philadelphia.
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    Self-portrait of John Porcellino
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    King Cat John Porcellino On Comics, Zines And Trying To Make The World Less Crazy

    Feb 28, 2021
    Cartoonist and zine-maker John Porcellino has been a hugely influential figure in the world of zine-making. As several of his classic books are reissued, we talk to him about his life and work
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    The Coronavirus Crisis
    Tenzin Kalsang's in-person story times in Tibetan and English on were held at the Williamsburgh branch of the Brooklyn Public Library system.
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    Brooklyn Librarian Becomes Unlikely Star With Her Bilingual Story Time

    Feb 28, 2021
    The pandemic has yielded a silver lining for the Brooklyn Public Library. Tenzin Kalsang's Tibetan story time has been drawing audiences in the tens of thousands.
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    To Summarize, 'Infinite Country' Can Be Frustrating

    Feb 27, 2021
    Patricia Engels' novel about the experiences of a Colombian family migrating to the U.S. stands out for its sharp writing — but frustrates in equal measure because of its reliance on summary.
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    Love May Be 'For Losers,' But This Book Is For Everyone

    Feb 27, 2021
    Wibke Brueggemann's charmingly snarky YA novel follows teenaged Phoebe as she recovers from the Worst New Year's Ever and learns that not all of life's answers can be found via Google.
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    The Legacies Of Black Icons Sam Cooke, Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) And Malcolm X

    Feb 26, 2021
    The film One Night in Miami imagines a night in 1964 where Cooke, Clay, Malcolm X and Jim Brown meet. We listen back to interviews with biographers Peter Guralnick, Jonathan Eig and Alex Haley.
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    The Picture Show
    <strong>Fairytale Lion</strong>: Jhene Santana Brown
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    Photographers Make Kids' Wildest Dreams Come To Life

    Feb 26, 2021
    A husband and wife photography team create avant-garde and futuristic shoots for their clients. The couple hopes the portraits transcend the typical images of beauty.
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    Véronique Tadjo's 'In The Company Of Men' Focuses On West Africa's Ebola Outbreak

    Feb 24, 2021
    NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with writer Véronique Tadjo about her book, In The Company of Men. It's a novel about the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, first published in French in 2017.
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    The Pandemic Has Made An Unlikely Star Out Of A Brooklyn Librarian

    Feb 24, 2021
    The pandemic has yielded a silver lining for the Brooklyn Public Library. Bilingual librarian Tenzin Kalsang's Tibetan story time has been drawing audiences in the thousands.
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    A Botched Execution Leads To A Search For Answers In 'Two Truths And A Lie'

    Feb 24, 2021
    Ellen McGarrahan was a young reporter for The Miami Herald, when she witnessed an execution that went horribly wrong. She revisits the case of Jesse Tafero in an intense new true crime book.
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    Movie Interviews
    Tim O'Brien was a foot soldier during the Vietnam War. "The problem for me really is that I questioned the rectitude of the war," he says. "I thought I was doing the wrong thing by being there."
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    Tim O'Brien On Late-In-Life Fatherhood And The Things He Carried From Vietnam

    Feb 24, 2021
    Now 74, O'Brien didn't become a father until his late 50s. He reflects on writing, mortality and his experiences in Vietnam in the new documentary, The War and Peace of Tim O'Brien.
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    On 'The Kitchen Front,' 4 Women Cook Their Way To Victory

    Feb 24, 2021
    In Jennifer Ryan's new novel, set in England in 1942, four women from different backgrounds compete in a cooking contest with a possibly life-changing prize: The chance to cohost a BBC cooking show.
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    Obituaries
    Poet and author Lawrence Ferlinghetti, pictured above in 1960, was born on March 24, 1919.
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    Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Beat Poet And Small-Press Publisher, Dies At 101

    Feb 23, 2021
    In 1956, Ferlinghetti published the first edition of Allen Ginsberg's Howl. According to one critic, his greatest accomplishments were fighting censorship and starting a small-press revolution.
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    Health Care

    What Does The 'War' Over Obamacare Reveal About Our Governing Bodies?

    Feb 23, 2021
    In his new book, The Ten Year War, Jonathan Cohn looks at the intense debate surrounding the Affordable Care Act, the compromises of the law itself, and the ongoing fight for universal health care.
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    Book Reviews
    <em>Flight of the Diamond Smugglers: A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa,</em> by Matthew Gavin Frank
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    Pigeons Star In A Tale Of Mining In 'Flight Of The Diamond Smugglers'

    Feb 23, 2021
    Journalist Matthew Gavin Frank exposes the history of South Africa's nefarious diamond industry, accompanied by a tale of pigeons and their role in subversion, in crisp and poetic prose.
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    Journalist Margaret Coker Retells The Story Of The Battle Against ISIS In New Book

    Feb 21, 2021
    NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with journalist Margaret Coker about her new book, The Spymaster of Baghdad. It chronicles the work of Iraqi intelligence agents against extremist groups.
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    Are You There God? It's Me, Juanita
    <em>Nubia: Real One</em>, by L.L. McKinney and Robyn Smith
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    In 'Nubia: Real One,' Trying To Be A Hero When Society Thinks You're A Threat

    Feb 21, 2021
    Nubia has been many things over decades of comics: Wonder Woman's sister, her rival, a guardian of the underworld. Now, L.L. McKinney and Robyn Smith have re-imagined her as a Black American teenager.
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    Winter Not Cold Enough? Here Are 3 YA Thrillers To Chill You

    Feb 20, 2021
    Prickly, angry girls get to the bottom of mysterious disappearances — or cause them — in these three angsty YA novels, from a retelling of "The Cask of Amontillado" to a wild and frozen dystopia.
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    Books

    Ali Benjamin Explores The Fallout Of The 2016 Election In Her New Novel

    Feb 20, 2021
    The 2016 election turned many lives upside down, including the characters in Ali Benjamin's new novel, The Smash-Up. NPR's Scott Simon asks Benjamin about her portrait of a family in upheaval.
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    Exclusive 1st Read: 'Klara And The Sun,' By Kazuo Ishiguro

    Feb 20, 2021
    We're excited to bring you an exclusive prepublication excerpt of Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel Klara and the Sun, a gentle fable about a world in which androids serve as companions to children.
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    What Fashion History Says About A Vice Presidential 'Vogue' Controversy

    Feb 19, 2021
    NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Richard Thompson Ford, author of the book Dress Codes: How The Laws Of Fashion Made History.
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    Race

    'Black Radical' Traces The Life And Legacy Of Activist William Monroe Trotter

    Feb 19, 2021
    Trotter was a Black newspaper editor in the early 20th century who advocated for civil rights by organizing mass protests. Historian Kerri Greenidge tells his story. Originally broadcast January 2021.
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