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News Articles: Book News & Features

Sources say the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is set to release its report on Dec. 21 — and publishers are ready to pounce.

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  • Book News & Features

Will you read the Jan. 6 report cover-to-cover? These publishers hope so.

The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is expected to drop their report on Dec. 21. It's a public document, but book publishers are poised to get the report into your hands.

December 16, 2022
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  • Andrew Limbong

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  • Perspective

Maria Ressa's 'How to Stand Up to a Dictator' is a memoir and manifesto

In 2013, Ressa laid out her forward-looking vision for the future of public service journalism to me. Her book traces a humbling, harrowing journey from social media advocate to democracy defender.

December 15, 2022
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By:
  • Frank Langfitt
Author Ashley Hope Pérez wrote <em>Out of Darkness,</em> which is on the American Library Association's lists of most banned books.

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  • Perspective

Ashley Hope Pérez: 'Young people have a right' to stories that help them learn

For years, Out of Darkness appeared on reading lists as a recommendation for ambitious young readers ready to face disquieting aspects of the American experience. It began facing bans in 2021.

December 14, 2022
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By:
  • Ashley Hope Pérez
More than 250 workers at HarperCollins, one of the biggest publishers in the country, have been on strike since November.

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  • Book News & Features

Hundreds of authors give support to striking workers at HarperCollins

Authors such as Barbara Kingsolver and Jacqueline Woodson have pledged not to submit work to HarperCollins until the strike has resolved.

December 08, 2022
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By:
  • Andrew Limbong
Stevie Wonder's Virtual Concert for Senator Warnock

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  • Politics

Georgia Today: Stevie Wonder concert for Warnock, pandemic mental toll, checks stolen from the mail

LISTEN: On the Monday, Dec. 5 edition of Georgia Today: Stevie Wonder's concert for Warnock, the pandemic's mental health toll, and checks disappearing from the mail.

December 05, 2022
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By:
  • Peter Biello and
  • Jeremy Powell

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  • Book News & Features

Kids want to know: 'Will It Be Okay?' — this book answers that question

Crescent Dragonwagon was in her 20s when she wrote a story told entirely in dialogue between a mother and her child. Now, she's updating her 1977 text with new illustrations by Jessica Love.

December 04, 2022
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  • Samantha Balaban

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  • Book News & Features

14 celebrity memoirs spilling all the tea

It's been a busy season for celebrity memoirs. A-listers from the worlds of Hollywood, music, journalism and royalty dish their own stories in these recent and upcoming books.

December 03, 2022
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By:
  • Pilar Galvan

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  • Books

Here are the Books We Love: 400+ great 2022 reads recommended by NPR

Books We Love returns with 400+ new titles handpicked by NPR staff and trusted critics. Find 10 years of recommendations all in one place – that's more than 3,200 great reads.

November 22, 2022
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By:
  • Beth Novey,
  • Maureen Pao,
  • and 3 more
Young Dabin is asked by multiple adults if she sees her self as Korean or American.

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  • Books

COMIC: Korean American books inspired one artist to redefine her identity

Illustrator and comic artist Dabin Han shares how she thinks about her Korean American identity and how it has been shaped by reading books by Korean American authors.

November 21, 2022
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By:
  • Dabin Han
The auction featured a number of items from the office where Joan Didion worked, including two electric typewriters that sold for $5,500 and $6,000, respectively.

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  • Books

Writer Joan Didion's possessions sell for eye-popping prices at auction

The late author Joan Didion was an exemplar of the New Journalism of the 1960s. Many fans traveled to Hudson, N.Y., to see some of her possessions up for auction. A pair of sunglass fetched $27,000.

November 17, 2022
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By:
  • Jim Zarroli
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  • Books

Tess Gunty's novel 'The Rabbit Hutch' wins National Book Award for fiction

Tess Gunty's "The Rabbit Hutch," a sweeping novel set in a low-income housing community in Indiana, has won the National Book Award for fiction.

November 17, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Children read outdoors at an event organized by the Brooklyn Public Library in New York City in August 1950.

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  • Book News & Features

Brooklyn Public Library reveals its most borrowed book ever to celebrate 125 years

The library system announced that Where the Wild Things Are is its most borrowed book. It has been sharing its 125 most checked-out books to celebrate 125 years of service to the Brooklyn community.

November 15, 2022
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By:
  • Halisia Hubbard
Former first lady Michelle Obama published her memoir <em>Becoming</em> in November 2018.

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  • Books

EXCLUSIVE: Michelle Obama reads from her forthcoming book 'The Light We Carry'

In a new book, the former first lady focuses on how she's dealt with difficult situations in her life. You can listen to her talk about a couple of these times in exclusive excepts provided to NPR.

November 14, 2022
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By:
  • Meghan Collins Sullivan

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  • Book Reviews

Women's work is never done: a trio of art books showcasing women

Three new art books feature female subjects of every shape and hue from all over the world, doing the things that women have historically done — and also the things that men have historically done.

November 12, 2022
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By:
  • Heller McAlpin
An art installation commemorates the novel <em>Slaughterhouse-Five</em> in the cellar of the former slaughterhouse where author Kurt Vonnegut, then an American prisoner of war, was held in Dresden, Germany.

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  • Books

Kurt Vonnegut would have turned 100 today — his war novels are relevant as ever

The author — who died in 2007 at the age of 84 — wrote satirical novels that won him a cult-like following among young people in the 1960s. Vonnegut's novels communicated: "Hey, you're not alone."

November 11, 2022
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By:
  • Tom Vitale
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