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President Donald Trump walks up the steps of Air Force One at Sioux Falls Regional Airport, S.D., on Sept. 7.

Bob Woodward Paints A Presidential Portrait Like No Other For Donald Trump

9:46pm September 09, 2018

by Ron Elving

In this account by the longtime journalist, President Trump appears convinced that the same braggadocio that made him rich and made him president will make the world conform to his own view of it.

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3 Required Romances For Your September Reading Pleasure

10:00am September 09, 2018

by Maya Rodale

It's back to school season, which means required reading — so of course, we've got a list of great romances. And they're educational, too — plenty of lessons about life, love and happily ever after.

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'Ordinary People' Learn What Happens To Marriage In Midlife

8:35am September 09, 2018

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

Diana Evans' novel follows two couples — 30-something Londoners — as they navigate friendship, relationships and parenthood. The goal, she says, was to write "about very ordinary moments."

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Since 2014, DeRay McKesson has become a leading voice in the Black Lives Matter movement, an unsuccessful candidate for mayor in his hometown of Baltimore, a podcast host, and now he's written a new book, On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope, t

Activist DeRay McKesson On Why He's Making 'The Case For Hope'

8:04pm September 08, 2018

by Michel Martin

In his new book, On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope, activist and author Deray McKesson tells his personal story and shares his thinking about activism.

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'Vanishing Twins' Follows One Woman's Search For Individuality Amid Coupledom

11:28am September 08, 2018

by Mariya Karimjee

When Leah Dieterich settles down with her other half, she begins to wonder: "Once you find someone to finish your sentences, do you stop finishing them for yourself?"

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Leaving Billions Behind In 'Lake Success'

8:05am September 08, 2018

NPR's Scott Simon asks Gary Shteyngart about Lake Success, his new novel in which a hedge fund manager chucks it in and flees on a Greyhound bus for a simpler life with his childhood sweetheart.

Rick Pitino receives a pre-game introduction at a Louisville Cardinals basketball home game in late 2015. The former coach has written a new memoir addressing the scandals that plagued his tenure at Louisville.

Shadowed By Scandals, Coach Rick Pitino Pens His 'Story'

8:05am September 08, 2018

by Scott Simon

The Hall of Fame college basketball coach, fired by the University of Louisville in 2017 following recruiting violations, addresses his career and recent headline-grabbing mistakes in a new memoir.

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'A Room Away From The Wolves' Makes The Gothic Bitingly Modern

5:11pm September 07, 2018

by Caitlyn Paxson

Nova Ren Suma takes all the classic Gothic novel tropes — an old house, a cursed ring, evil stepsisters, a dark family legacy — and gives them a bracing update in A Room Away From the Wolves.

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Long Haul Trucker Was 'Completely Seduced' By The Open Road

1:32pm September 07, 2018

by Terry Gross

Finn Murphy has logged over a million miles hauling people's belongings across the country. He describes life on the road as a "reaction against regimentation." Originally broadcast Feb. 14, 2018.

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Obama's Former Ethics Czar Discusses Trump, And The Global Threat To Democracy

2:18pm September 06, 2018

by Terry Gross

Norm Eisen's new book, The Last Palace, tells the story of the mansion he lived in as America's ambassador to the Czech Republic and of Europe's ongoing struggle between democracy and illiberalism.

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