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Susanna Hoffs' 'This Bird Has Flown' is a love story — and a valentine to music

11:50am April 05, 2023

by Michael Schaub

Singer and guitarist Susanna Hoffs rose to fame with the Bangles in the 1980s. With her new book, she proves her immense writing talent isn't just confined to songs.

Father-daughter memoir 'The Kneeling Man' highlights the complex life of a Black spy

5:38pm April 04, 2023

NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with author Leta McCollough Seletzky about the father-daughter memoir The Kneeling Man, highlighting the complex life of her father's role as a Black spy.

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Novel 'Romantic Comedy' explores desirability, entertainment and writing as a cure

5:38pm April 04, 2023

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Curtis Sittenfeld about her latest novel, Romantic Comedy, about a woman in her 30s working for this weekly comedy sketch show.

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'I Can't Save You' is a tale of a doctor's struggle to save himself, and others

9:18am April 04, 2023

by Thúy Đinh

Anthony Chin-Quee captures the space between medicine's all-consuming demands and its practitioners' fallibility in a cautionary tale of his own mental and physical struggles as a Black physician.

Women now dominate the book business. Why there and not other creative industries?

6:31am April 04, 2023

by Greg Rosalsky

A new study finds that women are excelling in the book business. Yet, they still lag in other creative industries. We search for an explanation why.

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Nicole Chung follows 'All You Can Ever Know' with 2nd memoir 'A Living Remedy'

5:10am April 04, 2023

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Nicole Chung about her new memoir: A Living Remedy.

'Armageddon' shows how literal readings of the Bible's end times affect modern times

2:05pm April 03, 2023

by Terry Gross

Bible scholar Bart Ehrman says interpretations of the Book of Revelation have created disastrous problems — from personal psychological damage to consequences for foreign policy and the environment.

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A new book about grief has its roots in the long-lost diaries of a 9/11 victim

12:27pm April 03, 2023

Bobby McIlvaine was killed on 9/11 at age 26. The Atlantic writer Jennifer Senior, who knew him, read his diaries. They were the basis for a Pulitzer Prize-winning essay that she's turned into a book.

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'A Living Remedy' tells a story of family, class and a daughter's grief

7:26am April 03, 2023

by Kristen Martin

In her first memoir All You Can Ever Know, Nicole Chung reflects on her adoption story. In her new book, she addresses family and class and her struggles to help her adoptive parents.

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Rachel Eve Moulton on her horror novel 'The Insatiable Volt Sisters'

8:20am April 02, 2023

by Ayesha Rascoe

A Victorian mansion on a Lake Erie island and half-sisters with a terrifying legacy: NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Rachel Eve Moulton about her new horror novel, "The Insatiable Volt Sisters."

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