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Despite The Title, We Bet You'll Like This YA Novel — A Lot

5:00am September 19, 2021

by Alethea Kontis

Michelle Quach's immensely lovable YA debut Not Here to Be Liked centers on Eliza, who's just been done out of her dream job as editor of the high school paper by an unqualified but very charming boy.

Yamiche Alcindor on Nov. 7, 2018, at the White House.

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'Wait Wait' For Sept. 18, 2021, With Not My Job Guest Yamiche Alcindor

7:32pm September 18, 2021

Yamiche Alcindor is the White House correspondent for PBS' Newshour and the host of Washington Week, so we'll ask her three questions about the week's washing: laundry.

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Georgian chess champion Nona Gaprindashvili plays at the International Chess Congress in London on Dec. 30, 1964. She is suing Netflix for defamation and invasion of privacy over its series The Queen's Gambit.

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A Chess Trailblazer Is Suing Netflix Over Her Portrayal In 'The Queen's Gambit'

4:05pm September 18, 2021

by Rachel Treisman

Georgian chess legend Nona Gaprindashvili is suing Netflix for defamation. At issue is a line in the show's final episode that falsely says she hadn't played against male opponents.

Clive Owen stars as Bill Clinton and Beanie Feldstein as Monica Lewinsky in the FX series Impeachment: American Crime Story.

Should The Lewinsky Affair Define Bill Clinton? Ask The Writer Of FX's 'Impeachment'

3:30pm September 18, 2021

by Danielle Kurtzleben

Screenwriter Sarah Burgess focused the new series on three of the women at the center of the scandal. And in the process, she gives people a story different from what they think they know.

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From 'Designing Women' To 'Hacks', Jean Smart's Career Is Still Going Strong

5:03pm September 17, 2021

by Terry Gross

Smart is nominated for Emmy Awards for her performances Hacks, about a veteran comic working with a Gen-Z comedy writer, and the crime drama Mare Of Easttown. Originally broadcast May 2021.

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Jennifer Aniston, Billy Crudup and Reese Witherspoon in The Morning Show. Season 2 is premiering on Apple TV+.

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'The Morning Show' Season 2 Was Written And In Production. Then COVID Hit

4:33pm September 17, 2021

by Elizabeth Blair

When COVID hit the U.S., writers of The Morning Show on Apple TV+ scrapped a year's worth of work to make the fictional TV show's new season newsworthy.

White flags stand near the Washington Monument on Tuesday during installation of a temporary art exhibit on the National Mall. More than 630,000 flags are part of artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg's In America: Remember, honoring Americans who have died

More Than 600,000 White Flags On The National Mall Honor Lives Lost To COVID

3:35pm September 17, 2021

by Jonathan Franklin

The art installation, called In America: Remember, will be on display at the National Mall for more than two weeks. It honors the more than 660,000 lives lost to COVID-19 in the United States.

The Arc de Triomphe in Paris is seen wrapped in fabric, in a posthumous art project that is an homage to the late artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude .

Here's Why The Arc De Triomphe Was Just Wrapped In Fabric

1:38pm September 17, 2021

by Bill Chappell

It is "a sensual, popular and monumental gesture," says Carine Rolland, the deputy mayor of Paris in charge of culture. The artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude came up with the idea before they died.

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Check-In: Everything's Hot

8:09am September 17, 2021

Ophira Eisenberg and Jonathan Coulton distract themselves from the show's impending end by talking about bagels.

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Kidz Bop

8:09am September 17, 2021

Comedians Aparna Nancherla and Joyelle Nicole Johnson play this audio quiz packed with hit songs— ruined- uh, *ahem* covered by children.

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