Britney Spears memoir reaches bestseller status a week before it hits shelves
New excerpts touching on her childhood and relationship with Justin Timberlake are drawing fans interested in her side of the story.
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Curtis Chin recounts coming of age as a Chinese American gay kid in his new memoir
NPR'S Ailsa Chang talks to author Curtis Chin about his new memoir, Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant.
Author Max Brooks on how the world of Minecraft helps prepare kids for our world
Author Max Brooks is out now with the final entry of his Minecraft series for kids. Brooks says Minecraft is a great way to teach kids about preparedness and adaptation.
For Jada Pinkett Smith, it's all lessons, not regrets
In a new memoir, Worthy, Pinkett Smith writes about her marriage to Will Smith, about how she charted a course from Baltimore to Hollywood, and about her close friendship with rapper Tupac Shakur.
U.S. book bans are taking a toll on a beloved tradition: Scholastic Book Fairs
Scholastic created a separate fair category for diverse books, which it says is to help schools navigate the complexities of book bans. Librarians accused the company of caving to censorship.
'Roman Stories' is Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri's latest collection
NPR's Leila Fadel talks to author Jhumpa Lahiri, who turns Rome into a central character in her new story collection.
New England fruit farmers begin to reimagine crops as climate shifts
New England's apple harvest has been a bust and the reason goes back to an early spring frost and the implications of climate change.
'Blackouts' is an ingenious deathbed conversation between two friends
More than a decade after his debut, We the Animals, Justin Torres returns with a novel that centers on a deathbed conversation between two friends about the distortions and erasures of queer history.
'Mr. Texas' author Lawrence Wright takes on the colorful world of Lone Star politics
"I love the way that Texans talk," Wright says. His novel centers on a naïve rancher who lucks into a seat in the state legislature, where he meets lobbyists, veteran politicians and power brokers.
What is certain in life? Death, taxes — and a new book by John Grisham
The Firm was the book that turned John Grisham into a writing superstar. Now three decades later, he's returned to the characters that made him, with his follow up book The Exchange.