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Author Salman Rushdie was attacked on a lecture stage in New York

7:54pm August 12, 2022

by Dustin Jones

Rushdie was apparently stabbed in the neck by an attacker who rushed the stage at the Chautauqua Institution. The suspect was taken into custody and Rushdie was transported to a nearby hospital.

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Belinda Huijuan Tang's debut novel explores family, forgiveness in times of change

5:11pm August 12, 2022

Belinda Huijuan Tang's debut novel A Map for the Missing is a story about family, forgiveness and the challenge of grappling with the past while charting a path for the future.

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Mary Rodgers and Jesse Green, co-authors of Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers

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Published 8 years after her death, Mary Rodgers' memoir is a true tell-all book

4:26pm August 11, 2022

by Jeff Lunden

Rodgers, the daughter of theatrical legend Richard Rogers, was a songwriter, children's book author and philanthropist. Her memoir, Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers, is out now.

A photo of Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. is displayed during a news conference April 24, 2018, in Sacramento, Calif., announcing the arrest of the man suspected to be the so-called Golden State Killer.

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After a career of cracking cold cases, investigator Paul Holes opens up

3:09pm August 10, 2022

by Dave Davies

Holes spent more than 20 years investigating crimes in California and played a critical role in identifying Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. as the so-called Golden State Killer. His new book is Unmasked.

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Author of 'Taliban' reflects on how the group has changed since it was last in power

4:55pm August 09, 2022

In 2001, author and journalist Ahmed Rashid wrote the definitive account of the Taliban and its origins. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly now speaks with Rashid, a year after the Taliban re-took Afghanistan.

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Two books dig into the 1990s for the roots of the Trump-era Republican Party

3:30pm August 09, 2022

by Ron Elving

Two veteran observers of American politics, a journalist and a historian, argue that former president Trump is not responsible for the GOP of our day but, instead, exploited it as he found it.

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'The Last White Man' spins a deft, if narrow, fantasy about identity

5:28am August 09, 2022

by Maureen Corrigan

Mohsin Hamid's surreal new novel centers on a white man who awakens one morning to find that his skin has turned brown. The Last White Man only seriously strains credulity at its very end.

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Two sisters fight for Vietnam's independence

6:57pm August 08, 2022

by Thuy Dinh

The novel Bronze Drum explores the legend of the sisters' rebellion against Chinese rule and the idea of collective memory as resistance.

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Why do so many bikes end up underwater? The reasons can be weird and varied

4:27pm August 08, 2022

Each year, thousands of bikes are thrown into waterways. Author Jody Rosen explains the history, and possible motivations for this strange phenomenon.

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Authors and bookstore owners worry a big publishing merger will affect diversity

5:40pm August 07, 2022

by Chloe Veltman

The proposed merger between Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster will likely change things for authors and readers - for better or worse