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The Call-In: Your Questions About Making Relationships Last

8:06am June 25, 2017

It's wedding season! For this week's Call-In, Mandy Len Catron, author of the new book How to Fall in Love with Anyone, answers your questions about love and relationships.

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An Ancient Curse Awakens In 'The Suffering Tree'

7:00am June 25, 2017

by Caitlyn Paxson

A family curse, a resurrection and a vengeful witch are at the center of Elle Cosimano's Southern Gothic chiller The Suffering Tree. But the book elides its setting's history of racial violence.

Dr. Vanessa Grubbs and Robert Phillips at their wedding in August 2005. Just a few months earlier, when his kidneys were failing, she gave him one of hers.

'Interlaced Fingers' Traces Roots Of Racial Disparity In Kidney Transplants

6:03pm June 24, 2017

by Michel Martin

When Dr. Vanessa Grubbs fell in love with a man whose kidneys were failing, he'd been waiting for a transplant for years. Her book explores the ways racial inequity is embedded in the system.

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Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud, by Anne Helen Petersen

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'Too Fat, Too Slutty' Challenges Cultural Expectations Of Women

10:00am June 24, 2017

by Annalisa Quinn

Anne Helen Petersen's new book is a thoughtful consideration of several public women — from Nicki Minaj to Hillary Clinton — who've run up against the invisible expectations our culture has of them.

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'The End of Eddy' Recounts Growing Up Amid Homophobia And Violence

8:01am June 24, 2017

In The End of Eddy, French author Edouard Louis writes about his experience growing up gay and abused in industrial France. He speaks to NPR's Melissa Block.

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'The Force' Is Basically 'Game Of Thrones' With Cops — And That's Pretty Great

7:00am June 24, 2017

by Jason Sheehan

Don Winslow's new novel is packed with crooked cops and crookeder crooks, all defending their territories and trying to maintain a status quo where everyone earns, everyone eats and no wars break out.

Anne Frank's Diary At 75

5:02am June 23, 2017

by Lauren Migaki

It's been 75 years since 13-year-old Anne Frank sat down to write her first diary entry about hiding during World War II. Today, her legacy is carried on at an elementary school in Philadelphia.

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What Hath Jobs Wrought?

5:26pm June 22, 2017

Odds are, you're looking at this on a smartphone.

Pop Gun War: Chain Letter, by Farel Dalrymple

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Shades Of Gray Turn Sumptuous In 'Chain Letter'

7:00am June 22, 2017

by Etelka Lehoczky

In Chain Letter, cartoonist Farel Dalrymple returns to The City, the mysterious metropolis at the heart of his early 2000s series Pop Gun War. It's a weird, complicated and charming place.

"I wanted to explore that kind of grief, that desire...to bring back who you love and to wish for that power not simply out of hubris, but to see the one you love back again," LaValle says.

Updating Frankenstein For The Age of Black Lives Matter

6:46am June 22, 2017

by Gene Demby

The classic tale of the Monster resurrected from the dead gets a new treatment in Victor LaValle's new limited-series comic.