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Joan Didion's estate will auction off some of the iconic writer's possessions

5:01am November 16, 2022

by Jim Zarroli

The late author Joan Didion was an exemplar of the New Journalism of the 1960s. Many of her fans are traveling to Hudson, N.Y., to see some of her possessions as they go up for auction.

NPR All Things Considered host Juana Summers (left) speaks with former First Lady Michelle Obama about her new book, The Light We Carry.

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Watch: Michelle Obama tells young people to be 'rageful' — but have a plan

6:21pm November 15, 2022

In The Light We Carry, Michelle Obama opens up about generational life lessons - both personal and public - and how "going high" is more than just a motto.

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Michelle Obama opens up in her new memoir 'The Light We Carry'

5:09am November 15, 2022

In an interview Tuesday on All Things Considered, the former first lady will talk about a phrase that she didn't know would resonate: "When they go low, we go high."

Children read outdoors at an event organized by the Brooklyn Public Library in New York City in August 1950.

Brooklyn Public Library reveals its most borrowed book ever to celebrate 125 years

5:00am November 15, 2022

by Halisia Hubbard

The library system announced that Where the Wild Things Are is its most borrowed book. It has been sharing its 125 most checked-out books to celebrate 125 years of service to the Brooklyn community.

An illustration of Martin from Number One is Walking.

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Steve Martin tells the story of his career — through cartoons

5:00am November 15, 2022

The banjo playing, acting and writer extraordinaire decided to tell his story in a new way: collaborating on his illustrated memoir, Number One is Walking with New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss.

Misty Copeland has been a principal ballerina with the American Ballet Theatre since 2015. She took a break from performing due to COVID-19 and the birth of her son in spring 2022, but she hopes to be back on stage in 2023.

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'It chips away at you': Misty Copeland on the whiteness of ballet

2:43pm November 14, 2022

by Terry Gross

For years Copeland was told that her skin color, her body and her hair didn't conform to what ballerinas were supposed to look like. Her memoir is The Wind at My Back.

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Former first lady Michelle Obama published her memoir Becoming in November 2018.

EXCLUSIVE: Michelle Obama reads from her forthcoming book 'The Light We Carry'

8:59am November 14, 2022

by Meghan Collins Sullivan

In a new book, the former first lady focuses on how she's dealt with difficult situations in her life. You can listen to her talk about a couple of these times in exclusive excepts provided to NPR.

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'Tracers in the Dark' explores the growth of illicit commerce with cryptocurrency

7:45am November 14, 2022

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Andy Greenberg about crytocurrency crime. Greenberg is the author of the new book, Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency.

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HarperCollins workers are on strike to demand better pay

8:04am November 13, 2022

by Andrew Limbong

Employees at HarperCollins, one of the "big five" publishers in the US are on strike. They're asking for better wages in an industry that is notoriously underpaid.

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Rapper Fat Joe on his new memoir 'The Book of José'

8:01am November 13, 2022

by Ayesha Rascoe

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Fat Joe about his new memoir, "The Book of José," which traces the rapper's rise from the rough and tumble streets of the Bronx to his success in the music world.