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Colson Whitehead returns to his home turf with 'Harlem Shuffle'

Whitehead says his novel was inspired by his love of heist movies. The story centers on a furniture store owner who has a side hustle trafficking in stolen goods. Originally broadcast Sept. 15, 2021.

August 26, 2022
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  • Terry Gross
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  • Books

Exiled writers reflect on freedom of speech in America in light of Rushdie attack

For dissident writers fleeing persecution overseas, the United States has long been a safe haven, a place where freedom of expression is tolerated and, even, valued.

August 26, 2022
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  • Jim Zarroli
Florida's Sarasota County School District is not purchasing or accepting donations of new books until at least January as it hires new staff and awaits new guidance to best comply with a statewide education law.

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  • Education

A Florida district declines dictionary donations as it navigates a new book law

A local Rotary Club and nonprofit have given dictionaries to Sarasota, Fla., schools for over a decade. The district declined this year amidst amidst a book freeze while it navigates a new state law.

August 22, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
"No, I like it. It's a statement piece. Really completes the space." Viserys (Paddy Considine) and Rheanyra (Milly Alcock) in <em>House of the Dragon</em>.

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In the 'House of the Dragon' series premiere, the blood of the dragon runs thick

We recap the debut episode of the Game of Thrones prequel, in which tragedy strikes the Seven Kingdoms, and a new heir is named for the Iron Throne ... for now, anyway.

August 21, 2022
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  • Glen Weldon
Mitch Albom and Morrie Schwartz hold hands on Oct. 3, 1995.

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On the 25th anniversary of 'Tuesdays with Morrie,' the teaching goes on

Publisher after publisher rejected the memoir before Doubleday took a chance in 1997. At its core, the book is about the power of relationship and focusing on others.

August 21, 2022
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  • Richard Harris
Red Keepin' it 100: A dragon flies over King's Landing on <em>House of the Dragon</em>.

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Should you watch the 'Game of Thrones' spinoff?

HBO's prequel 'House of the Dragon' drops you into King's Landing 200 years earlier than 'Game of Thrones.' But if you're leery of revisiting Westeros, here's what you need to know.

August 21, 2022
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  • Glen Weldon
The latest version of HBO's George R.R. Martin adaptations features a dragon-drop interface.

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  • Television

A handy 'House of the Dragon' glossary: places, powers and people you need to know

HBO's 'Game of Thrones' prequel throws a lot of proper nouns at you. Here's a guide to the important whos, whats and wheres of 'House of the Dragon.'

August 19, 2022
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  • Glen Weldon
At a rally outside the New York Public Library, writers including Paul Auster and Gay Talese read passages from Salman Rushdie's work. His assailant has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder charges after being accused of stabbing Rushdie during a literary event at the Chautauqua Institution.

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Paul Auster, Aasif Mandvi and others support Salman Rushdie with public readings

Writers Jeffrey Eugenides, Roya Hakakian, Kiran Desai, Tina Brown, Gay Talese and others gave live readings from the author's work as he recovered from a brutal attack.

August 19, 2022
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  • Elizabeth Blair
In 1989, after Iran's religious leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa calling for the death of author Salman Rushdie, readings of his works were organized around the United States. At this one in San Francisco, novelist Alice Walker reads aloud from Rushdie's <em>The Satanic Verses</em>.

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  • Books

Since 1989, threats to Salman Rushdie have sparked support and debate on free speech

Last week's attack has reignited debates over free speech, censorship and offensiveness that were already heated back in 1989, when an op-ed by a former president called Rushdie's book an "insult."

August 19, 2022
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  • Becky Sullivan
Jewish townspeople of the village of Nasielsk, Poland in 1938.

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  • Movies

'The Territory' and 'Three Minutes: A Lengthening' find cinematic hope in tragedy

Two documentaries — one involving a pre-WWII home movie, the other dispatches from the Amazon rainforest — have much in common.

August 19, 2022
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  • Bob Mondello
<em>Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation</em> is one of more than 40 books being challenged in the Keller Independent School District.

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  • Education

The Bible is among dozens of books removed from this Texas school district

The books under review were previously challenged and placed back on shelves, but now the Keller Independent School District wants them to undergo another review with new criteria.

August 19, 2022
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  • Wynne Davis
Defense attorney Nathaniel Barone (left) and Hadi Matar, who was charged with stabbing author Salman Rushdie, listen during an arraignment Thursday in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, N.Y.

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  • National

A judge denies bail for the man accused of trying to kill Salman Rushdie

The Chautauqua County district attorney said that Hadi Matar stabbed the author a dozen times in the neck, stomach, chest, hand and right eye, before he could be stopped by shocked bystanders.

August 18, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Patricia Highsmith in 1942, age 21.

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  • Books

Untangling the contradictions of crime novelist Patricia Highsmith

Highsmith's writing was full of fakes, forgeries and falsehoods, revealing not only what her characters concealed, but what readers were willing to see.

August 18, 2022
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  • Allyson McCabe
Author Jamil Jan Kochai and his former second-grade teacher, Susan Lung, were reunited after more than 20 years at a reading for the writer's second book, <em>The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories, </em>in Davis, California.

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  • Education

It took 20 years for this author to reunite with the teacher who changed his life

The writer searched for more than a decade for Susan Lung, who taught him to read and write English when he was a 7-year-old in 1999. On Saturday, she surprised him at one of his book readings.

August 17, 2022
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  • Vanessa Romo

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  • Book Reviews

Afghan women raise their voices in two new anthologies

This week marks a year since the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan. But the Taliban hasn't succeeded in silencing Afghan women, whose voices ring out in two new and powerful collections.

August 17, 2022
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  • Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson
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