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Joan Didion leaves one more piece of writing to faithful fans

Didion's book is an intimate chronicle of the author's struggle to help her daughter, even if it meant digging into her own long-unexamined neuroses.

April 22, 2025
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  • Heller McAlpin

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After a tragic accident, a widow faces a lifetime of what-ifs

Live Fast won France's top literary prize in 2022. Brigitte Giraud's haunting book revisits the death of her husband in a motorcycle crash 20-odd years earlier.

February 24, 2025
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  • John Powers
Memorial Days, by Geraldine Brooks

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Tony Horwitz's widow Geraldine Brooks writes a beautiful memoir of grief

Horwitz died suddenly in 2019 while on a book tour. In Memorial Days, Geraldine Brooks grieves her husband — and also reflects on the life she might have lived had they not met.

February 18, 2025
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  • Maureen Corrigan

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  • Book News & Features

'The First State of Being' and 'Chooch Helped' win top children's book awards

This year's Caldecott medal went to a book about an older sister frustrated when her baby brother "helps." The Newbery went to a middle-grade tale about a time traveler at the turn of the century.

January 27, 2025
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  • Andrew Limbong
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New book chronicles the origins and politics of rap duo Run The Jewels

Run The Jewels has built a cult following by capturing the discontent of the poor and the oppressed. A new book looks at the music the duo has created and the political landscape from which it emerged.

January 14, 2025
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  • Peter Biello
Neesha Powell-Ingabire is the author of the memoir, 'Come By Here'.

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Atlanta journalist Neesha Powell-Ingabire reflects on her Geechee roots in new memoir

A new memoir by Atlanta journalist Neesha Powell-Ingabire is a reflection on slavery’s impact on the Georgia coast, her Geechee heritage, and the Geechee culture that exists today.

December 17, 2024
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  • Peter Biello
Comedian and author Kate McKinnon with the cover of her new book.

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Kate McKinnon's new middle-grade mystery is for all her fellow misfits

The SNL star says her new book is part of what she calls her “private mission to give a wink and a nod” to young people who might feel “different” — like she did — growing up.

October 04, 2024
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  • Elizabeth Blair

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In 'The Unexpected,' Emily Oster tackles the emotional toll of difficult pregnancies

The economist made a name for herself using data to challenge the accepted rules of pregnancy. Now, she's returning to the topic with a book on how to navigate its complications.

May 02, 2024
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  • Scott Detrow
Carson McCullers was born in Columbus, Georgia in 1917..

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New biography dives into the troubled life of literary 'genius' Carson McCullers

A new biography of renowned writer and Georgia native Carson McCullers takes a deep dive into the author's troubled life and brilliant mind.

April 25, 2024
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  • Peter Biello
An illustration from his book <em>Rohan Bullkin and the Shadows</em>, by illustrator Rachel Moss. It depicts Juleus Ghunta and his teacher described in his Unsung Hero story.

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Growing up, he struggled to read. Then a young teacher saw his potential

Juleus Ghunta is a published children's author and award-winning poet. But growing up, he could barely read. That was until a teacher saw his potential.

April 15, 2024
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By:
  • Laura Kwerel and
  • Brigid McCarthy
Alexandra Tanner's debut novel centers two sisters in their 20s struggling with the love, anxieties and truths that they hold about each other.

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  • Books

'Worry' is a disturbing and honest picture of what it's like to be in your 20s

Alexandra Tanner's debut novel, Worry, centers two sisters in their 20s struggling with the love, anxieties and truths that they hold about each other.

March 28, 2024
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By:
  • Ailsa Chang,
  • Alejandra Marquez Janse,
  • and 1 more
A wildfire burns south of Fort McMurray, Alberta, near Highway 63 on Saturday, May 7, 2016. A book about an inferno that ravaged a Canadian city and has been called a portent of climate chaos has won Britain's leading nonfiction book prize.

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  • Book News & Features

The story of a devastating wildfire that reads 'like a thriller' wins U.K. book prize

John Vaillant's Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World was awarded Britain's leading nonfiction book prize on Thursday in London.

November 17, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
The Beastie Boys, as illustrated by Anny Yi in the children's book, "What Is Hip-Hop?" by Eric Morse

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Atlanta Jazz Festival's Kids Zone promotes reading with giveaway of 'What is Hip-Hop'?

Hip-hop has been many things in its half century of existence, and "suitable for children" probably isn't what immediately comes to mind. But one book challenges that perception.

May 26, 2023
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By:
  • Sonia Murray
Mary Rodgers, her memoir "Shy", and theater critic Jesse Green.

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  • Books

Political Rewind: Theater critic Jesse Green remembers Mary Rodgers in 'Shy'

Friday on Political Rewind: Mary Rodgers grew up among some of Broadway's biggest names, from Sondheim to Bernstein. Her father was one half of Rodgers and Hammerstein. We sit down with New York Times theater critic Jesse Green to discuss Rodgers' autobiography, Shy.

January 13, 2023
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
  • and 1 more
An illustration of author Frank Bruni next to the cover of his book, The Beauty of Dusk.

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Revisiting our conversation with journalist Frank Bruni on 'vision lost and found'

Tuesday on Political Rewind: We revisit our conversation with writer Frank Bruni. His book, The Beauty of Dusk, details how his life was changed by a stroke that left him blind in one eye. Bruni imparts a hope-filled message on how to change your perspective during dark times.

December 27, 2022
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  • Bill Nigut
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