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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.

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

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.

May 16, 2022
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  • Terry Gross
Mark Esper has written a book about the challenges he faced as Defense secretary in the Trump administration.

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Former Pentagon chief Esper says Trump asked about shooting protesters

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Mark Esper about his forthcoming book, "A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times."

May 09, 2022
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By:
  • Michel Martin and
  • Tinbete Ermyas
The cover of Mothercoin next to the author.

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In 'Mothercoin', the labor of love transcends borders

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.

May 08, 2022
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  • Diba Mohtasham
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 power cord of the TV set. Obiajulu told her daughter she could watch television again once she'd earned admission to Oxford.

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  • Family

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

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.

May 06, 2022
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  • Dave Davies
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 with her own parents.

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  • Author Interviews

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

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.

May 04, 2022
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  • Ailsa Chang,
  • Courtney Dorning,
  • and 1 more
Mourners gather in Littleton, Colo., on April 20, 2021, to remember the victims of the 1999 Columbine High School shooting.

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  • Author Interviews

How behavioral threat assessment can stop mass shootings before they occur

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.

May 02, 2022
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  • Dave Davies
Filmmaker and author John Waters at his home in Baltimore. This year marks the 50th anniversary of his landmark film, <em>Pink Flamingos, </em>and he's releasing his first novel, <em>Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance</em>.

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A lot of material from this John Waters interview couldn't be published

It's been 50 years since the famed director released the movie Pink Flamingos. And as much as the world's changed since then, his first-ever novel shows that his propensity for bad taste ...hasn't.

April 30, 2022
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  • Andrew Limbong
Dolly Parton and James Patterson pose for a picture in August 2021. Their new novel, <em>Run, Rose, Run</em>, is about an aspiring country singer in Nashville.

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  • Author Interviews

'Dreams do still come true' in a new novel by Dolly Parton and James Patterson

Parton didn't just co-write the novel, she also recorded a whole album to go with it. Run, Rose, Run is about an aspiring country singer trying to shake a dark past and make it big in music.

April 30, 2022
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  • Rachel Martin,
  • Reena Advani,
  • and 2 more

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  • Book News & Features

Behold! 'The Great Zapfino' takes a big leap to overcome his fears

A circus performer whose act is called "The Leap For Life" loses his nerve and gets a regular job as an elevator operator. Then a moment comes when The Great Zapfino must finally perform.

April 30, 2022
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  • Samantha Balaban
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  • Author Interviews

A writer lost his singing voice, then discovered the gymnastics of speech

John Colapinto developed a vocal polyp when he began "wailing" with a rock group without proper warmup. He talks about the frailty and feats of the human voice. Originally broadcast Jan. 26, 2021.

April 29, 2022
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  • Dave Davies

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  • Books

For neurodivergent, non-speaking poets, collaboration is the basis of language

Poet Adam Wolfland identifies as neurodivergent and autistic. He says poetry is in his body — he types and moves to communicate and his poetry is multidimensional.

April 29, 2022
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By:
  • Jeevika Verma

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  • Author Interviews

Creators on the Cusp: Meet Roye Okupe, father of African superheroes

Okupe incorporates African myth and history into his books –- his "YouNeek YouNiverse." Here he weighs in on creating Afrocentric comics for a global audience — and on his new book WindMaker Vol. 1.

April 29, 2022
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By:
  • Etelka Lehoczky
Amy Schumer, left, creator, executive producer and star of Comedy Central's <em>Inside Amy Schumer</em>, comedian Bridget Everett, center, and author and comedian Jessi Klein attend the show's 3rd season premiere party in New York City in April 2015.

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Comedy writer Jessi Klein reflects on the disorienting experience of new motherhood

Having a baby changes everything: "There's just no way to comprehend how completely your old identity vanishes," Klein says. Her new book is I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife & Motherhood.

April 27, 2022
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  • Terry Gross
Delegate Danica Roem applauds visitors during opening ceremonies at the start of the 2019 session of the Virginia General Assembly in Richmond. The Virginia lawmaker, the first openly transgender U.S. state legislator, has written a new memoir in which she embraces the idea of using what was written about her to empower her to tell her story.

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Danica Roem did opposition research on herself. It's one way she reclaimed her story

The Virginia lawmaker is the first openly transgender U.S. state legislator. In her new memoir, she embraces the idea of using what was written about her to empower her to tell her story.

April 27, 2022
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By:
  • Juana Summers and
  • Lexie Schapitl
Volume 58 is the latest in the <em>Saga</em> series that has been running for a decade now.

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  • Pop Culture

Radical pacifism and violence collide in one family's epic sci-fi 'Saga'

There's a frog playing drums, an alien on guitar and a humanoid with a TV for a head on vocals. If the cover of the Saga comic seems a bit confusing, you have some catching up to do.

April 27, 2022
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  • Mallory Yu
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