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Out Of Bounds: Jen Welter On Breaking Barriers In Football

7:52am October 08, 2017

Jen Welter is the first woman to ever coach in the NFL and she's out with a new book called Play Big. She talks to NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro about her time in the NFL and its controversies.

How A Justice Stays Fit: 'The RBG Workout'

7:52am October 08, 2017

How does one of America's most powerful octogenarians keep fit? Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg credits personal trainer Bryant Johnson, author of The RBG Workout. We meet him in the gym.

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In 1960s New York, Witchy Women Learn 'The Rules Of Magic'

7:52am October 08, 2017

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

In Alice Hoffman's prequel to Practical Magic, two sisters uncover their family's supernatural gifts and curses while growing up in the city.

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In 'This Blessed Earth,' The Outdated Romance Of The Family Farm

7:52am October 08, 2017

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

Journalist Ted Genoways spent a year on a small farm in rural Nebraska, and he says American nostalgia for the family farm overlooks the pressures farmers face and the realities of food production.

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'The Taste of Empire: How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World' By Lizzie Collingham

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'Taste Of Empire' Shows Us The World In Our Kitchen Cupboards

7:00am October 08, 2017

by Genevieve Valentine

Lizzie Collingham's new book takes 20 exemplary British meals, from plain stewed beef to an elaborate Christmas pudding, and uses them to illustrate the way food and empire are inextricably linked.

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You're Going To Hate 'TheMystery.doc,' And That's OK

10:00am October 07, 2017

by Jason Sheehan

Matthew McIntosh's fractured and fracturing 1,600-page tale of a writer with amnesia and a missing manuscript isn't fun, and it probably isn't supposed to be. But it is magnificently weird.

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Stunning New Biography 'Ali' Is The Portrait A Champion Deserves

7:00am October 07, 2017

by Michael Schaub

Jonathan Eig's exhaustively researched new book paints a complex picture of Muhammad Ali, from his Kentucky childhood to his brilliant fighting style, his kindnesses, cruelties and eventual decline.

An Unkindness of Ghosts, by Rivers Solomon

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'Unkindness Of Ghosts' Transposes The Plantation's Cruelty To The Stars

7:00am October 06, 2017

by Amal El-Mohtar

Rivers Solomon's novel is set on a giant generation ship, on an interstellar voyage of centuries, divided between the wealthy, light-skinned upper-deckers and the oppressed, laboring lower-deckers.

The USS Franklin D. Roosevelt sails down the East River after leaving the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1945. Jennifer Egan's new book follows a woman who works the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II.

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In 'Manhattan Beach,' Jennifer Egan Dives Deep Into WWII New York City

6:07pm October 05, 2017

by Ari Shapiro

Egan began researching her new novel years before she published A Visit From The Goon Squad. It follows a girl who becomes the Brooklyn Navy Yard's first female deep-sea diver during World War II.

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The Story Of 'Manhattan Beach' Lives In Its Details

1:08pm October 05, 2017

by Tasha Robinson

Jennifer Egan's new novel, set in New York in the 1930s and 1940s, is full of deeply researched period detail and rich, memorable characters — though their motivations don't always add up.