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Lessons On Kindness From NPR’s Scott Simon

June 12, 2020 Culture, Literature

The Weekend Edition host talks about his new YA novel about accepting others when, sometimes, their gifts are hidden.

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Susan Choi On Her Nation Book Award Winner

May 5, 2020 Culture, Literature

Susan Choi joins us to talk about her book, “Trust Exercise: A Novel,” which was a runaway hit last year, delighting readers and critics all the way to a National Book Award.

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Lawrence Wright Predicted This Would Happen

April 30, 2020 Current Events, Global Issues, Literature

Lawrence Wright joins us to talk about his fiction focused on a pandemic upending the world, written months and months before our current crisis.

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When Science Misses The Forest For The Trees

April 28, 2020 History, Literature, Race/Identity, Science and Technology

Lulu Miller, co-founder of NPR’s “Invisibilia,” joins us to talk about her study of the first president of Stanford University, a taxonomist obsessed with fish, and how his discoveries — and ultimately his intellectual myopia — helped her to make sense of her own world.

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Ireland Split In Two: A History Of The Troubles

February 25, 2020 History, Literature

New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe talks to us about assessing this recent dark period of Irish history through the lens of this mysterious disappearance.

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When Bombs Tried to Kill Them, Books Kept Their Souls Alive

November 29, 2019 Culture, Current Events, Education, Literature

Journalist Mike Thompson joins us to talk about one bright spot in the Syrian Civil War: a secret world of books that offered normality and refuge.

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‘Undone’: The Story Behind Amazon’s Coolest Series

November 6, 2019 Culture, Literature, Race/Identity, Uncategorized

Kate Purdy, co-creator, producer and writer of “Undone,” joins us to talk about her drama, which uses Rotoscope animation to bridge the worlds of the living and the dead.

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When Lincoln Died, The Drama Began

October 23, 2019 History, Literature

The co-creators of a dramatic podcast about the days following Lincoln’s assassination join us to talk about crafting a compelling modern drama from the annals of history.

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Margaret Atwood Tells The Rest Of The Story

September 23, 2019 Current Events, Global Issues, Literature, Politics

Novelist Margaret Atwood joins us to talk about her new book,“The Testaments.”

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When Fans Write The Story

September 20, 2019 Culture, Literature

Michael Schulman joins us to talk about the rise of superfans and the power they command.

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How Pop Culture Demonizes Powerful Women

August 27, 2019 Culture, Literature, Race/Identity

Feminist author Sady Doyle joins us to talk about how the violent woman trope affects the conversation about equality.

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The Widow And The Washout

August 1, 2019 Culture, Literature

Linda Holmes, host of NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour joins guest host Courtney Collins to talk about her new book “Evvie Drake Starts Over”.

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