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News Articles: Books

Stacey Abrams says her focus is on ensuring free and fair elections in 2026.

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Stacey Abrams warns of autocracy and voter suppression, doesn't rule out another run

Abrams isn't running for office — but she's not ruling it out, either. "Politics is a tool ... for getting good done, but it's not the only one." Her new thriller is Coded Justice.

July 16, 2025
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  • Tonya Mosley

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Her love life was in chaos. The solution? Giving up sex

After a bad breakup, writer Melissa Febos decided to abstain from sex and dating for a year. She didn't realize how much it would change her life. She tells her story in a new book, The Dry Season.

July 15, 2025
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  • Marielle Segarra and
  • Margaret Cirino
Calvin Duncan is the founder and director of the Light of Justice program in New Orleans.

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Wrongly convicted, he became 'The Jailhouse Lawyer' — and helped free himself

While serving a life sentence for a murder he was eventually exonerated of committing, Calvin Duncan studied law and helped many wrongfully convicted prisoners. His memoir is The Jailhouse Lawyer.

July 14, 2025
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  • Terry Gross

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Where to start? This week's new releases are an all-you-can-read buffet

This week, new horror from Silvia Moreno-Garcia, a funny college do-over from Jeneva Rose, and autofiction from Hannah Pittard. Plus, stories about the American South, and a deep dive into the Earth.

July 14, 2025
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  • Colin Dwyer

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By land and by sea, these new nonfiction books will carry you away

Helen Whybrow's memoir, The Salt Stones, is a closely-observed account of her life as a shepherd. In A Marriage at Sea, Sophie Elmhirst tells the true story of a couple adrift on a rubber raft.

July 14, 2025
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  • Maureen Corrigan

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Through comics, 'Essex County' creator shows us the struggles, triumphs of his career

Jeff Lemire explores his career arc, the road to successfully delivering Essex County and other comics to the public, in a new graphic memoir.

July 14, 2025
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  • Tahneer Oksman
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'I want to write myself into existence,' says 'Colored Television' author

Danzy Senna was born a few years after Loving v. Virginia legalized interracial marriage. "Existing as a family was a radical statement at that time," she says. Originally broadcast Sept. 3, 2024.

July 11, 2025
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  • Terry Gross
Leila Mottley is the author of <em>Nightcrawling </em>and <em>The Girls Who Grew Big.</em>

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A young novelist takes on misconceptions about teen moms in 'The Girls Who Grew Big'

Mottley's latest novel follows three young women as they navigate pregnancy and motherhood in a small town in Florida. She sees the novel as an extension of her work as a doula.

July 09, 2025
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  • Tonya Mosley

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New books this week focus on Caitlin Clark, King Tut, and how 'Democrats Lost America'

Plus: a new novel from Gary Shteyngart, a true story of a shipwreck, and a memoir from a wrongly incarcerated inmate who was exonerated after 28 years behind bars.

July 08, 2025
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  • Colin Dwyer
In the 1920s and 1930s, French designer Jeanne Lanvin offered alternatives to the flapper dresses of the prohibition era with embroidery, appliqué and dropped-waist styles. Her work is on display at the SCAD FASH Museum in Atlanta through  Aug. 31, 2025.

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New book about Atlanta cocktail culture revisits city's most famous watering holes

Prohibition-era cocktail culture collided with couture at the SCAD FASH museum during a launch event for a new book about the secret history of Atlanta’s bars from the 1890s to the present.

July 08, 2025
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  • Kristi York Wooten

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  • Book News & Features

From caterpillar to butterfly, 'Papilio' grows up in a new picture book

Papilio is a picture book told in three parts about three stages of a butterfly's life (there are really four stages but egg time is pretty boring). It's also written and illustrated by three friends.

July 06, 2025
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  • Samantha Balaban
GPB  NPR

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How Louis Armstrong became the first Black pop star

Author Ricky Riccardi says Armstrong's innovations as a trumpeter and vocalist helped set the soundtrack of the 20th century. His book is Stomp Off, Let's Go. Originally broadcast Jan. 30, 2025.

July 04, 2025
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  • Terry Gross

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  • Arts & Life

Jenny Han is an expert in embarrassment

Jenny Han feels close to her teen self, which explains why her books and their adaptations connect with teen audiences. She spoke with Rachel about the potency of shame and what she's selfish about.

July 03, 2025
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  • Rachel Martin

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'Hamilton' producer Jeffrey Seller traces his journey from 'Theater Kid' to Broadway

Seller has been a key behind-the-scenes figure for some of Broadway's biggest hits including, Hamilton and Rent, but he got his start on a much smaller scale. He looks back in a new memoir.

June 30, 2025
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  • Terry Gross
Generative AI is transforming the publishing industry. Authors are pushing back on a variety of fronts, most recently with an open letter to publishers asking them to curtail their use of the technology. (Getty stock photo.)

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  • Arts & Life

Authors petition publishers to curtail their use of AI

The open letter and accompanying petition asking publishers "to make a pledge that they will never release books that were created by machines" garnered more than 600 signatures within a few hours.

June 28, 2025
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  • Chloe Veltman
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