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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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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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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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Jennings had a remarkable <em>Jeopardy!</em> run.

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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
Cormac McCarthy attends the New York premiere of <em>The Road</em>, the film adaptation of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, in 2009.

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Cormac McCarthy, American novelist of the stark and dark, dies at 89

The author of The Road, Blood Meridian and No Country For Old Men embodied a strong Southwestern sensibility, writing often about men grappling with the existence of evil.

June 13, 2023
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  • Wade Goodwyn

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  • Author Interviews

The Catholic Church profited from slavery — 'The 272' explains how

"You don't hear about enslaved people at Mass or in Sunday school," says Rachel Swarns. Her new book tells the story of 272 enslaved people sold in 1838 to help save what is now Georgetown University.

June 13, 2023
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  • Terry Gross
John Lennon in Paris, 1964

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Paul McCartney's photos of early Beatlemania are in a book and on display in London

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Paul McCartney about his book of photographs from the time the Beatles first visited the United States.

June 13, 2023
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  • Steve Inskeep
Elizabeth Gilbert is delaying publication of <em>The Snow Forest</em>, a novel set in Russia, after receiving an outpouring of "anger, sorrow, disappointment and pain" from Ukrainian readers who object to releasing any work about Russia. Here, in this photo from September 2010, Gilbert arrives at the European premiere of the film <em>Eat, Pray, Love</em> in Leicester Square, London.

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Elizabeth Gilbert halts release of a new book after outcry over its Russian setting

The Snow Forest by the author of Eat, Pray, Love was set to be released in February 2024, exactly two years after Russia invaded Ukraine. The backlash included hundreds of negative GoodReads reviews.

June 13, 2023
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  • Jonathan Franklin
GPB News NPR

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  • Author Interviews

Central Park birder Christian Cooper on being 'a Black man in the natural world'

Cooper was birdwatching in Central Park in 2020 when a white woman falsely accused him of threatening her. His book chronicles life as a Black birder, gay activist and Marvel comics writer and editor.

June 12, 2023
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  • Terry Gross

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  • Book Reviews

5 new mysteries and thrillers for the start of summer

These new releases might take you from Europe to Africa to the Middle East to Russia and the United States — without leaving your hammock.

June 12, 2023
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  • Bethanne Patrick
The Goodwin family, including Regina Goodwin, in a 1970s photo.

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  • Books

The Tulsa Race Massacre is recounted through family memories in 'Built from the Fire'

One family, the Goodwins, was forever changed by the attacks in Oklahoma more than a century ago and worked to ensure Tulsa acknowledged the truth about what happened.

June 12, 2023
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  • Reena Advani and
  • Michel Martin

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  • Book Reviews

'The Wind Knows My Name' is a reference and a refrain in the search for home

Isabel Allende's latest is a tale of two child immigrants — a boy who escapes Nazi occupied Vienna in 1938 and a girl who escapes military gangs in El Salvador in 2019 — and their shared experience.

June 10, 2023
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  • Marcela Davison Avilés
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