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In 'Summerland,' Spies Take Secrets To The Grave — And Beyond

10:00am July 01, 2018

by Jason Sheehan

Hannu Rajaniemi's new book imagines an alternate 1930s in which ghosts are real, the afterlife is real — and the disembodied mind of V.I. Lenin is trying to expand Communism from beyond the grave.

The Scientists Who Explore Human Hormones In 'Aroused'

8:14am July 01, 2018

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Dr. Randi Hutter Epstein about her new book Aroused, which tells the story of the scientific quest to understand human hormones.

"The Darkest Time of Night" by Jeremy Finley

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'Darkest Time Of Night' Will Keep You Turning Pages

7:00am July 01, 2018

by Bethanne Patrick

Television investigative reporter Jeremy Finley brings his small-screen experience to bear in this debut novel, a satisfyingly suspenseful thriller with overtones of The X-Files and Stranger Things.

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Remembering Poet Donald Hall

8:13am June 30, 2018

by Scott Simon

Donald Hall, a former poet laureate of the United States, died last Saturday, at the age of 89. NPR's Scott Simon reads one of Hall's poems, "September Ode."

HUD And National Book Foundation Work To Promote Reading In Public Housing

8:13am June 30, 2018

by Lynn Neary

The National Book Foundation has partnered with the Department of Housing and Urban Development on a literacy program aimed at getting books into the hands of kids and adults living in public housing.

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Looking At Photographer George Rodriguez

8:13am June 30, 2018

by Mandalit del Barco

Photographer George Rodriguez has chronicled a visual history of Los Angeles over his multidecade career. His work is being celebrated in a new book as well as his first retrospective.

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Step Away From The 'Trauma Buffet' With These 5 Beach Reads By Authors Of Color

7:00am June 30, 2018

by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Sometimes it seems like authors of color are relegated to writing about nothing but suffering, says author Silvia Moreno-Garcia. But we all need a taste of happiness — starting with these five books.

Ellison in 1977, with his beloved typewriter.

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Goodbye To Harlan Ellison, 'America's Weird Uncle'

3:36pm June 29, 2018

by Jason Sheehan

Our critic Jason Sheehan says he's a little surprised that the legendary sci-fi writer passed away peacefully at home. It should have been an attack by alien space bears, or an argument with gravity.

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Remembering Former Poet Laureate Donald Hall

2:34pm June 29, 2018

by Terry Gross

Hall, who died on Saturday, wrote about farm work and his wife, poet Jane Kenyon, in the 1993 memoir Life Work. He and Kenyon spoke to Fresh Air in 1996, and Hall was interviewed again in '02 and '12.

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Remembering Writer Harlan Ellison

5:17am June 29, 2018

by Petra Mayer

The famous, and famously cantankerous, science fiction writer Harlan Ellison has died. Over a 6-decade career, he won multiple awards for his fiction and television writing.

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