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Jimmy V, Coach K And Dean Smith: The 3 Legends Of N.C. Basketball

5:23pm April 02, 2016

Sports columnist John Feinstein talks about his new book, The Legends Club, which follows the rivalry and friendship between three of college basketball's biggest coaches in the '80s.

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What Our Relationship To 'Junk' Says About America Through Generations

8:15am April 02, 2016

What to keep and what to throw away? Alison Stewart talks with NPR's Scott Simon about her new book "Junk: Digging Through America's Love Affair With Stuff."

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'Diver's Clothes' Is A Cautionary Tale (And A Fantasy) About Travel

1:48pm April 01, 2016

Vendela Vida's The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty is a novel about the sense of dislocation that often comes with traveling to another country. Originally broadcast on June 30, 2015.

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"One of the things I've learned from being the curator of the most desolate gallery of food photography on the planet is that loneliness and an inability to cook is a truly global phenomenon."

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Intentionally Awful Photos Of 'Dimly Lit Meals For One'

11:04am April 01, 2016

by Tove Danovich

Instagram food photos often offer a curated image of an idealized existence. This book is not that: It pairs grainy photos of culinary monstrosities with fictional tales of the sad sacks eating them.

Injuries Increase As Pitchers Throw Harder, Faster And Younger

2:04pm March 31, 2016

In The Arm, baseball columnist Jeff Passan explains how competitive pressure on young players is making them more vulnerable.

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Dietland and 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl

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'You Cannot Shame Me': 2 New Books Tear Down 'Fat Girl' Stereotypes

7:16am March 31, 2016

by Lynn Neary

Authors Sarai Walker and Mona Awad were tired of the way fat characters were — and weren't — portrayed in fiction. Dietland and 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl attack a culture of stigmatization.

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Memoirist Augusten Burroughs Puts It All Out There In 'Lust & Wonder'

9:57pm March 29, 2016

by Ari Shapiro

Augusten Burroughs is one of America's most successful memoirists. NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with him about his latest book, Lust & Wonder.

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'Girls & Sex' And The Importance Of Talking To Young Women About Pleasure

2:59pm March 29, 2016

Author Peggy Orenstein says that when it comes to sexuality, girls hear that "they're supposed to be sexy, they're supposed to perform sexually for boys, but ... their sexual pleasure is unspoken."

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Adam Hochschild is a cofounder of Mother Jones. His previous books include To End All Wars and King Leopold's Ghost.

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In Many Ways, Author Says, Spanish Civil War Was 'The First Battle Of WWII'

4:06pm March 28, 2016

According to Adam Hochschild, about 2,800 Americans fought in the Spanish Civil War, and some were bombed by Nazis years before the U.S. entered World War II. His new book is Spain in Our Hearts.

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'Dark Territory' Examines The Long History Of Cyber War

5:35pm March 27, 2016

So many things in our lives are plugged into networks vulnerable to hacking. Fred Kaplan's new book Dark Territory looks at how this came to be and what it means for the future.

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