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The statue of Samuel Adams stands outside Boston's Faneuil Hall.

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Author reminds Americans that Samuel Adams was a revolutionary before he was a beer

1:55pm November 01, 2022

by Maureen Corrigan

Adams' historical importance is often overlooked because he didn't keep copies of his own letters. Stacy Schiff's superb new biography explores his crucial role in inciting the American Revolution.

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With 'Foster,' Claire Keegan asks that readers look outward

5:17am November 01, 2022

by Heller McAlpin

More than most books four times its size, Foster does several of the things we ask of great literature: It expands our world, diverting our attention outward, and it opens up our hearts and minds.

A book published by Simon & Schuster is displayed on Saturday, July 30, 2022, in Tigard, Ore.

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Judge blocks Penguin Random House-Simon & Schuster merger

12:03am November 01, 2022

by The Associated Press

A federal judge blocked Penguin Random House's proposed purchase of Simon & Schuster, saying that the joining of two of the world's biggest publishers could "lessen competition."

The Goosebumps series continues to have its hooks, tentacles, or some other creepy tendrils around fans today.

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'Goosebumps' is turning 30 — the scariest part is how old that makes you

4:41pm October 31, 2022

by Andrew Limbong

R.L. Stine's mega-popular series has spawned TV shows, movies and many, many books. A humor writer who stumbled into horror, Stine says its been a thrill to scare so many generations of kids.

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Blair Braverman on her novel 'Small Game' about a survival reality tv show gone wrong

8:06am October 30, 2022

by Ayesha Rascoe

A survival reality tv show gone wrong with contestants abandoned to fend for themselves: NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Blair Braverman about her new novel, "Small Game."

Gerald Stern speaks to the audience during the National Book Awards in New York Wednesday, Nov. 18, 1998. Stern, one of the country's most loved and respected poets who wrote with spirited melancholy and earthly humor about his childhood, Judaism, mortality and the wonders of the contemplative life, has died.

Gerald Stern, prize-winning and lyrical poet, dies at 97

1:54am October 30, 2022

by The Associated Press

Stern was one of the country's most loved and respected poets who wrote with spirited melancholy and earthly humor about his childhood, Judaism, mortality and the wonders of the contemplative life.

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Edward J. Delaney on his novel 'The Acrobat', a portrait of Cary Grant

8:05am October 29, 2022

by Scott Simon

Cary Grant tries to get back in touch with Archibald Leach in the new novel, "The Acrobat." NPR's Scott Simon talks with Edward J. Delaney about his portrait of a famous actor in search of himself.

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Dr. Benjamin Black in front of the Gondama Referral Center in Sierra Leone, where he worked during the Ebola outbreak of 2014-2016. The center treated children and women in urgent need of obstetric and gynecological care. As the outbreak exploded, the center decided to stop admitting pregnant women, a decision that still weighs on Black.

A doctor's Ebola memoir is all too timely with a new outbreak in Uganda

6:29pm October 28, 2022

by Susan Brink

Dr. Benjamin Black talks about Belly Woman: Birth, Blood and Ebola — the inside story of what it was like to face a terrifying epidemic in West Africa.

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13 books full of thrills and chills for Halloween

5:40pm October 28, 2022

by Pilar Galvan

Halloween is a time of mystery and mischief. Here are some hair-raising novels that will keep you on your toes, ranging from thrillers and murder mysteries to horror stories both supernatural and not.

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Fresh Air's Halloween special, with horror masters Stephen King and Jordan Peele

1:34pm October 28, 2022

by Terry Gross

King talks about what terrified him as a child — and what frightens him as an adult. Peele talks about the fears that inspire his filmmaking. Originally broadcast in 1992, 2013 and 2017.

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