NPR Bestsellers: Paperback Fiction, Week Of October 30, 2014
A museum owner's daughter and an immigrant photographer fall for each other in Alice Hoffman's The Museum of Extraordinary Things. It appears at No. 6.
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Halloween Makes Us Think Of ... Diversity In Romance!
Romance guru Bobbi Dumas once worked at an international school — and she says the colorful world of the kids' Halloween costumes inspired her to think about diversity in her favorite literature.
Stephen King On Growing Up, Believing In God And Getting Scared
"The more carny it got, the better I liked it," King says of his new thriller, Joyland. King talks with Fresh Air's Terry Gross about his career writing horror, and about what scares him now.
Book News: J.K. Rowling Exposes Origin Of Harry Potter's 'Twee' Nemesis
Dolores Umbridge, enemy of the boy wizard, gets profiled in a new story from Rowling on Halloween. Also: Goodnight Moon goes bilingual, and a campaign for diverse books turns to crowd-funding.
'The Book Of Strange New Things' Treads Familiar Territory
Michel Faber's best-seller, The Crimson Petal and the White, captured the feel of Victorian London. His latest is a literary science-fiction tale that might disappoint hard core sci-fi fans.
NPR Bestsellers: Paperback Nonfiction, Week Of October 30, 2014
In Brain on Fire, Susannah Cahalan shares her story of falling ill to a rare autoimmune disease, and the difficulties doctors had it diagnosing it. The book appears at No. 7.
NPR Bestsellers: Hardcover Fiction, Week Of October 30, 2014
Samantha Kofer goes from Wall Street lawyer to an unpaid legal aid intern in John Grisham's Gray Mountain. It debuts at No. 1.
Book News: Young Adult And Kids' Lit Boost E-Book Revenue
From January to July, e-book revenue grew 7.5 percent compared with the same period last year. Also: R.L. Stine tweets a horror, and poets slip into something a bit sexier.
The Battle For Dreamland, Revisited In 'Nemo'
A lavishly produced new tribute to Winsor McCay's Little Nemo comics gathers dozens of today's artists to revisit Slumberland. Critic Etelka Lehoczky says the book is beautiful but unchallenging.
A Candid Memoir From Comedian Amy Poehler? 'Yes Please'
Poehler joins Fresh Air's Terry Gross to talk about fighting the body image "demon," being a "world-class snooper" and how she was once told that she had a "great face for wigs."