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Vegan Cookbooks Spill The Beans About Aquafaba, The Eggless Egg White

12:33pm April 20, 2017

by Tove Danovich

The discovery that the liquid from canned beans can be whipped into an egg white substitute has taken the vegan world by storm. Now DIY recipes are being codified into cookbooks.

Cover art for Mozart's Starling, a new book by Lyanda Lynn Haupt.

How Do You Bond With Mozart? Adopt A Starling

9:56am April 20, 2017

by Tom Huizenga

Naturalist and author Lyanda Lynn Haupt took her research on Mozart to a whole new level when she invited a young starling into her home.

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'Tender' Stories Are A Feast Of Ideas

7:00am April 20, 2017

by Jason Heller

Sofia Samatar is the creator of an award-winning fantasy world; she sticks closer to earth in her powerful first story collection, but it's not always the earth we might recognize.

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'The Book Of Joan' Is A Dizzying, Dystopian Genre Mashup

5:00am April 20, 2017

by Carmen Maria Machado

Lidia Yuknavitch reimagines Joan of Arc as a freedom fighter on a blighted future earth, setting herself against the charismatic ruler of a satellite colony of nearly unrecognizably mutated humans.

A galley proof shows some of the work that went into adding "ginormous" to Merriam-Webster's 2007 collegiate dictionary.

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From 'F-Bomb' To 'Photobomb,' How The Dictionary Keeps Up With English

2:44pm April 19, 2017

by Terry Gross

For a new word to enter the dictionary, it must meet three criteria: widespread use, sustained use and meaningful use. Merriam-Webster lexicographer Kory Stamper explains the process in Word by Word.

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The Woman Who Had Two Navels by Nick Joaquin

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A Potent, Uneasy Blend Of Passion And Fatalism In 'The Woman Who Had Two Navels'

7:00am April 19, 2017

by Genevieve Valentine

No matter what's happening in this new collection of work from the late Filipino writer Nick Joaquin, it's probably already too late — but that doesn't stop his characters from struggling.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks during a rally in front of the Capitol on March 22. She writes about the middle class and activism in her new book, This Fight Is Our Fight.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren's Call To Action: 'This Fight' Will Take Everybody

7:48pm April 18, 2017

by Audie Cornish

"Everybody's got to get out there and find the piece that they can do," the Democratic Massachusetts senator says. She talks to NPR's Audie Cornish about her new book, the middle class and activism.

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'Locking Up Our Own' Details The Mass Incarceration Of Black Men

4:33pm April 18, 2017

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with author James Forman, Jr., about his new book, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America. It tells the story of how African Americans in law enforcement made the war on drugs very much their war.

Alyssa Mastromonaco sits with President Barack Obama aboard Air Force One in 2012. Mastromonaco served as the president's director of scheduling and advance from 2009 until 2011, then became his deputy chief of staff for operations from 2011 until 2014.

'I Basically Ran On Adrenaline': A Staffer Remembers Obama's White House

4:12pm April 18, 2017

by Terry Gross

Alyssa Mastromonaco worked in the West Wing for six exhilarating and exhausting years. She describes that era in her new memoir, Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?

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The Line Between Love (Songs) And Horror Just Got Even Blurrier

11:00am April 18, 2017

by Stephen Thompson

The Police's "Every Breath You Take" was already a pretty creepy song. Now, it and many other love songs have been re-envisioned as the covers of Stephen King-style horror paperbacks.