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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
Melissa Pritchard is the author of the novel "Flight of the Wild Swan".

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Georgia novelist chronicles the extraordinary life of Florence Nightingale

Columbus resident Melissa Pritchard's new novel, Flight of the Wild Swan, puts the life and work of Florence Nightingale in the spotlight.

October 04, 2024
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  • Peter Biello
Elvis tribute artists on stage in Porthcawl in Wales.

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A small town in Wales claims the world's biggest Elvis festival. NPR visited

You might expect the world’s biggest Elvis Presley festival to be in Las Vegas, or Memphis, Tenn. One small UK seaside town holds an annual -- and possibly the world's biggest -- Elvis Presley festival.

October 04, 2024
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  • Robert Griffiths
"Why should anyone other than the woman herself have the power to determine what she does with her own body?" Melania Trump asks in her new memoir, according to an early excerpt published by <em>The Guardian</em>. The former first lady is seen here at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on July 18.

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In excerpt from new memoir, Melania Trump says women have the ‘right to choose’ abortion

In a video released Thursday, she says women are born with "individual freedom." Her memoir is coming out a year after former President Donald Trump said he was "able to kill Roe v. Wade."

October 03, 2024
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  • Bill Chappell
GPB News NPR

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Gladwell reexamines 'The Tipping Point' -- releasing 'Revenge of the Tipping Point'

Decades after writing “The Tipping Point,” Malcolm Gladwell says he's less optimistic. He tells NPR's Steve Inskeep he reexamined his book about social epidemics, and rewrote it with darker themes.

October 03, 2024
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  • Steve Inskeep
Ta-Nehisi Coates teaches at Howard University, where he's the Sterling Brown endowed chair in the English department.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates explores how oppression can breed oppression in 'The Message'

In his first nonfiction book in a decade, Coates reflects on what he learned while visiting three different places: Senegal, South Carolina and the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

October 01, 2024
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  • Terry Gross
Colin Kaepernick and Nessa Diab pose for a portrait.

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Colin Kaepernick and Nessa Diab wrote ‘We Are Free, You and Me’ with daughter in mind

Colin Kaepernick and Nessa Diab wrote a new children’s book inspired by affirmations they share with their daughter and scores of young people they meet through their activism.

October 01, 2024
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  • Adriana Gallardo and
  • Michel Martin
"I love cooking for people I love," Ina Garten says. "And the cooking is just the medium; the thing that I care about is the connection."

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Ina Garten shares her secret for a great dinner party: 6 people and a round table

"I like when everybody's knees are almost touching and it feels very intimate," the Barefoot Contessa host says. Garten's new memoir is Be Ready When the Luck Happens.

September 30, 2024
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  • Tonya Mosley
Aduba dedicates her new memoir to her mother, Nonyem Aduba. "My self-talk, the way that I motivate myself into pursuing this business ... is built out of language that my mother had given me," Aduba says.

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Uzo Aduba thanks her mom: 'I didn't know how many prayers she sent up to heaven for me'

The Orange Is the New Black actor grew up the daughter of Nigerian immigrants in a predominantly white Massachusetts suburb. She looks back on her mother's influence in the memoir, The Road Is Good.

September 25, 2024
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  • Tonya Mosley
GPB News NPR

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Mueller investigator says Russia interfered in 2016 -- and in the 2024 election too

Mueller deputy Aaron Zebley looks back on the investigation of Trump's ties to Russia and explains why his team didn’t indict the president in 2017. Zebley is the co-author of Interference.

September 24, 2024
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  • Terry Gross

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  • Book Reviews

'Intermezzo' is Sally Rooney's most moving novel yet

Rooney's fourth novel is a story about learning to accept loss. And though it has its share of grief and strife, it's happier and less disturbing than Normal People and Beautiful World, Where Are You.

September 24, 2024
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  • Heller McAlpin
GPB News NPR

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Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Powers plunges deep into the ocean in 'Playground'

Richard Powers' latest novel brims with love for humanity and the planet. He makes clear that while humans have made this planet our amusement park, we have not always taken proper care of our toys.

September 23, 2024
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  • Heller McAlpin
 <em>Death at the Sign of the Rook</em>

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  • Book Reviews

A light-hearted murder mystery weekend turns deadly in Kate Atkinson's cozy thriller

Death at the Sign of the Rook is an expansive novel that pokes fun of baroque, classic murder mysteries — but also delivers a fully satisfying, all-the-pieces-click-together ending.

September 20, 2024
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  • John Powers
<em> Entitlement</em>

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'Entitlement' disappoints — 'Leave the World Behind' was a tough act to follow

Rumaan Alam’s previous novel was an inspired swirl of suspense, social commentary and apocalyptic disaster. His latest is about a young Black woman working for a uber-rich white socialite.

September 19, 2024
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  • Maureen Corrigan
Connie Chung, shown here in 2023, says watching a bad interview is painful: "I want to throw my shoe at [the television] if somebody isn't asking the question ... that I would ask."

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  • Author Interviews

Connie Chung says booze and bawdy jokes helped her break into journalism's boys club

In a new memoir, Chung reflects on the decades she spent covering the news, her marriage to Maury Povich and the prominent figures who acted inappropriately with her — including President Carter.

September 18, 2024
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  • Tonya Mosley
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