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Tan France is the fashion expert on the makeover show Queer Eye, but he initially had misgivings about joining the show. "I didn't want to become famous," he says. "That wasn't really the life for me and ... I wasn't necessarily about making things pretty

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Why Fashion Expert Tan France Nearly Turned Down 'Queer Eye'

1:28pm September 12, 2019

by Terry Gross

"The thought of being one of the very first openly gay South Asian men on a major show. ... That pressure was so hard to handle," France says of his role on the Netflix makeover series.

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Samantha Power speaks on Jan. 13, 2017, during her final press conference as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

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In New Memoir, Samantha Power Describes Going From Idealist To Diplomat

5:05am September 12, 2019

by Noel King

NPR's Noel King speaks with Samantha Power about her memoir The Education of an Idealist. In her book, Power describes how she went from working outside the system to moving inside, as a diplomat.

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Remembering (Or Not Remembering) 9/11

3:50pm September 11, 2019

This week marks 18 years since 9/11. Whole generations of Americans have reached adulthood with little recollection of the terrorist attack.

Then U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power answers a reporter's question during a news conference in Seoul, South Korea on Oct. 9, 2016.

Samantha Power Tells Of The Not-So-Simple 'Education Of An Idealist'

2:12pm September 11, 2019

by Caitlyn Kim

In her memoir, the former U.N. ambassador aims to show how she kept true to her idealistic nature despite facing the realities of foreign policy and world atrocities.

A U.S. Flag hanging from a steal girder, damaged in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, blows in the breeze at a memorial in Jersey City, N.J., Sept. 11, 2019 as the sun rises behind the One World Trade Center building and the re-develop

'The Only Plane In The Sky' Offers A Powerful, Graphic Narrative Of Sept. 11

1:00pm September 11, 2019

by Scott Detrow

When today's children someday ask what Sept. 11 was really like, Garrett Graff's book will be the answer: He vividly recounts the most upsetting and totemic moments — and critical, little-told others.

Jackie Robinson draws his family close to help him blow out a birthday candle in 1954. From left, his children Sharon, David, and Jackie Jr., with his wife Rachel, above.

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Teen Angst And Civil Rights Meet In A New Memoir — Featuring Jackie Robinson

12:39pm September 11, 2019

by Ailsa Chang

The pioneering baseball player's daughter, Sharon Robinson, has written Child of the Dream, a chronicle of 1963 — a critical year for the Civil Rights movement, and also when she turned 13.

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Christopher Ingraham, his wife Briana, and their three children — twins Charles (center) and Jack (right), 6, and William, 2, who was born after the family moved to Red Lake Falls, Minn.

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A Throwaway Line Led 'Washington Post' Reporter To Call Rural Midwest His New Home

11:37am September 11, 2019

by Rachel Martin

Christopher Ingraham, a data reporter at The Washington Post, found unexpected joy when he moved his family to the county he once called "the absolute worst place to live in America."

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Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America, by James Poniewozik

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'Audience Of One' Aims To Show How TV Shaped Donald Trump — And Led To His Rise

11:15am September 11, 2019

by Annalisa Quinn

James Poniewozik's book is both brilliant and daring, particularly when it comes to Trump's image-making. But there's a gap, the one between image and audience, that doesn't get enough attention.

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Margaret Atwood On The Enduring Resonance Of 'The Handmaid's Tale'

3:24pm September 10, 2019

Her new book, "The Testaments," is a sequel to the 1985 bestseller.

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'She Said' Reveals The People And Practices That Protected Weinstein

1:53pm September 10, 2019

by Terry Gross

New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, who broke the story of Harvey Weinstein's alleged sexual misconduct, talk about the obstacles Weinstein created to prevent their investigation.

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