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Two new novels illustrate just how hard it is to find a foothold in America

Brandon Taylor's The Late Americans is a sexually-explicit, cynical novel about young people striving. Such Kindness, by Andre Dubus III, grapples with injury, addiction, masculinity and loneliness.

June 21, 2023
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  • Maureen Corrigan
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Remembering acclaimed editor Robert Gottlieb

Gottlieb, who died June 14 at 92, edited Joseph Heller, Toni Morrison, John le Carré and, for more than 50 years, Robert Caro. We listen back to an interview with Gottlieb from just a few months ago.

June 21, 2023
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  • Terry Gross

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  • Book Reviews

'Rich White Men' reinforces the argument that inequality harms us all

While not a new concept, Garrett Neiman makes distinct contributions to the conversation; as a rich white man, he has insider's access to that population — and doesn't shy away from self-indictment.

June 21, 2023
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By:
  • Ericka Taylor
Dan Solomon's <em>The Fight for Midnight</em> is a coming-of-age novel set in June of 2013, during former Texas state senator Wendy Davis' 13 hour filibuster of an abortion bill.

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  • Book News & Features

In 'The Fight for Midnight,' a teen boy confronts the abortion debate

Dan Solomon's YA novel The Fight for Midnight takes place during former Texas state lawmaker Wendy Davis' filibuster of a bill that would restrict access to abortion. The protagonist is a teen boy.

June 21, 2023
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  • Elizabeth Blair
Jenny Xie's debut novel is <em>Holding Pattern</em>.

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Mother-daughter relationships are fraught. Jenny Xie explores how

Jenny Xie's new novel dives into how "strange, infuriating and precious" mothers can be to their daughters.

June 20, 2023
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  • Manuela López Restrepo

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  • Book Reviews

Pain and pleasure do the tango in the engrossing new novel 'Kairos'

A young student in East Berlin falls in love with a much older writer in the run-up to the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is a love story and a rich portrait of people watching their country disappear.

June 20, 2023
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  • John Powers

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  • Book News & Features

Debut novel 'The God of Good Looks' adds to growing canon of Caribbean literature

A growing number of high-profile novels are coming out of the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora. And the region has long been punching above its weight on the international literary scene.

June 20, 2023
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  • Carole V. Bell

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'The Dos and Donuts of Love' is a delectably delightful, reality TV tale

Bangladeshi-Irish author Adiba Jaigirdar's latest YA romance promises a spoonful of drama and a dash of deception, leading to a well-baked resolution.

June 18, 2023
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  • Alethea Kontis
A new vision of Goldilocks, sipping tea

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A husband and wife reimagine fairy tales with Black children in mind

In their latest book CROWNED: Magical Folk and Fairy Tales from the Diaspora, Kahran and Regis Bethencourt retell fairy and folk tales with Black children as the main characters.

June 16, 2023
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  • Destinee Adams

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  • Book Reviews

In 'Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge,' Helen Ellis' home life takes center stage

Ellis' latest collection is full of hilarious, off-the-wall personal — and, at times, intimate — essays about home life and marriage.

June 15, 2023
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  • Heller McAlpin
Barry Allen/The Flash (Ezra Miller) is full of running gags.

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'The Flash' throws off intermittent sparks

The latest DC film seeks to reboot Warners' troubled cinematic universe. The script boasts solid jokes and knowing winks, but flat characterizations keep it from taking off.

June 15, 2023
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  • Glen Weldon
This image released by Knopf shows Robert Gottlieb. Gottlieb, the inspired and eclectic literary editor whose brilliant career was launched with Joseph Heller's<em> Catch-22</em> and continued for decades with such Pulitzer Prize-winning classics as Toni Morrison's <em>Beloved</em> and Robert Caro's <em>The Power Broker</em>, has died at age 92.

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  • Books

Robert Gottlieb, celebrated editor of Toni Morrison and Robert Caro, has died at 92

Gottlieb, whose work helped shape the modern publishing canon, edited fiction by future Nobel laureates, spy novels by John le Carré, essays by Nora Ephron and Caro's nonfiction epics.

June 14, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Jennings had a remarkable <em>Jeopardy!</em> run.

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  • Books

Ken Jennings knows about everything. That now includes the afterlife

You might know Ken Jennings as the Jeopardy! genius-turned host. But he's also an author, and a guy who really wants to know stuff.

June 14, 2023
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  • Manuela López Restrepo
GPB News NPR

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  • Author Interviews

'An Amerikan Family' traces the legacy of Tupac Shakur's influential family

The late rapper — who was killed at 25 in 1996 — would have turned 52 this year. Santi Elijah Holley's new book follows the Shakur family tree and their work in the Black Liberation Movement.

June 14, 2023
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  • Tonya Mosley

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  • Book Reviews

'To Name the Bigger Lie' is an investigation of the nature of truth

Sarah Viren's memoir, drawing from two life episodes, has the page-turning quality of a thriller. But instead of solving mysteries, she untangles philosophical tensions in pursuit of what is real.

June 14, 2023
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  • Kristen Martin
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