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Less is Lost, by Andrew Sean Greer

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'Less' offers more in Andrew Sean Greer's follow-up to his Pulitzer-winning novel

Greer's new comic novel, Less is Lost, is as funny and poignant as its predecessor. But comedy also arises out of pain and Greer smoothly transitions into the profound.

September 26, 2022
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  • Maureen Corrigan
GPB News NPR

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  • Animals

Monkey thieves, drunk elephants — Mary Roach reveals a weird world of animal 'crime'

Roach researched animal misbehaviors for her book, Fuzz. She says animals tend to ignore the rules we try to impose on them — and they often have the last laugh. Originally broadcast Sept. 14, 2021.

September 23, 2022
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  • Dave Davies
Ana de Armas plays Marilyn Monroe in the Netflix film <em>Blonde</em>.

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'Blonde,' the new Marilyn Monroe biopic, is an exercise in exploitation, not empathy

The Netflix film turns Monroe into an avatar of suffering, brought low by a miserable childhood, a father she never knew and an industry full of men who abused and exploited her until her death.

September 23, 2022
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  • Justin Chang
Edward Enninful became the editor-in-chief of <em>British Vogue</em> in 2017. His new memoir is <em>A Visible Man.</em>

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'British Vogue' editor-in-chief wants his magazine to reflect the world he sees

Edward Enninful grew up in Ghana, assisting his mother in her dressmaking shop. "For me, fashion was always such an inclusive, beautiful thing," he says. His memoir is A Visible Man.

September 21, 2022
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  • Tonya Mosley
Paulina Alexis, Devery Jacobs, D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, and Lane Factor play the title characters in <em>Reservations Dogs</em>, a series about teenagers living on a reservation in Oklahoma.

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'Reservation Dogs' co-creator says the show gives audiences permission to laugh

Sterlin Harjo says there's a tendency to be "very precious with Native people ... that's kind of how the world is trained to view us." The irreverent series follows four teens on a reservation.

September 19, 2022
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  • Terry Gross
Nanisca (Viola Davis) wields a sword and hacks her way through the many men who get in her way in<em> The Woman King.</em>

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Viola Davis is 'The Woman King' in an epic story inspired by true events

Gina Prince-Bythewood's latest film is a rousingly old-fashioned action-drama about women warriors in 19th-century West Africa.

September 16, 2022
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  • Justin Chang
GPB News NPR

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  • Television

With 'Succession', Matthew Macfadyen finds himself a long way from Mr. Darcy

The British actor played a brooding Mr. Darcy in the '05 film adaptation of Pride & Prejudice. Now he's won an Emmy for playing a scheming Midwesterner on Succession. Originally broadcast Jan. 2022.

September 16, 2022
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  • Dave Davies
Ken Burns' new three-part documentary, <em>The U.S. and the Holocaust,</em> explores what everyday Americans knew — or didn't know — about what the Nazis were doing in Europe. Above, a tenant farmer reads a newspaper in Creek County, Okla., in February 1940.

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Ken Burns connects the past and the present in 'The U.S. and the Holocaust'

Burns' new six-hour series brings World War II history to life — and reminds us that our life, right now, is indeed history in the making.

September 15, 2022
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  • David Bianculli

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  • Book Reviews

Ling Ma's stories start out familiar but get very, very weird

Nothing is just one thing in Bliss Montage: Satire swirls into savagery; a gimmicky premise into poignancy. Ma writes with such authority that readers are simply swept along.

September 14, 2022
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  • Maureen Corrigan

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  • Author Interviews

Nina Totenberg looks back on her decades-long friendship with Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The NPR legal affairs correspondent met the future SCOTUS justice in the early '70s, when Totenberg interviewed Ruth Bader Ginsburg for a story about a decision pertaining to women's rights.

September 14, 2022
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  • Terry Gross
President Trump appointed three Supreme Court justices and nominated 274 individuals to federal judgeships. Journalist David Enrich says many of those picks were influenced by lawyers from the firm of Jones Day.

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  • Politics

How lawyers from one giant DC firm influenced Trump's Supreme Court picks

Servants of the Damned author David Enrich says lawyers from the firm of Jones Day were deeply embedded in the Trump White House — and helped create policy designed to limit the federal government.

September 13, 2022
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  • Terry Gross
Sheryl Lee Ralph plays kindergarten teacher Barbara Howard on the ABC/Hulu comedy series <em>Abbott Elementary.</em>

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  • Television

From 'Dreamgirls' to 'Abbott Elementary,' Sheryl Lee Ralph forged her own path

Ralph won an Emmy for her role as a no-nonsense kindergarten teacher on Abbott Elementary. She says classroom management is about "letting [kids] know that boundaries are there for a reason."

September 13, 2022
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  • Terry Gross
Sterling K. Brown and Regina Hall play a Southern Baptist pastor and his wife trying to redeem their legacy in the wake of a public scandal in<em> Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.</em>

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'Honk for Jesus' is an uneven but entertaining saga about scandal and redemption

Sterling K. Brown and Regina Hall play a Southern Baptist pastor and his wife trying to redeem their legacy in the wake of a public scandal in Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.

September 09, 2022
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  • Justin Chang

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  • Book Reviews

'If I Survive You' is a sweeping portrait of a family's fight to make it in America

Jonathan Escoffery's If I Survive You is an intensively granular, yet panoramic depiction of what it's like to try to make it — or not — in this kaleidoscopic madhouse of a country.

September 09, 2022
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  • Maureen Corrigan
Gretchen Mol and Jon Bernthal as Julian Kaye star in Showtime's <em>American Gigolo. </em>

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Showtime's 'American Gigolo' sequel lacks the highfalutin glitz of the original

There's nothing mythic about this series, which acts as a sequel to Paul Schrader's hit 1980 movie. This American Gigolo relies too much on people caring about a film that was made four decades ago.

September 08, 2022
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  • John Powers
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