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NPR Books: July 2, 2009

Stories in this episode: 1) 'Touch' tells of the conflicting accounts that arise after a girl is groped on a school bus. 2) Author Gigi Levangie Grazer talks about her new novel, 'Queen Takes King.' 3) 'The Photographer' is an unusual graphic novel that tells the story of a photojournalist's harrowing trip to Afghanistan....

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[ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:20:34 -0400 ]

NPR Books: June 25, 2009

Stories in this episode: 1) Retrace the strands that led to a lot of current American satire, and you end up at Harvey Kurtzman. 2) Nikita Khrushchev starred in his own travel comedy back in 1959. Peter Carlson's new book, 'K Blows Top,'documents the Communist leader's unusual tour through the United States. 3) Dean Olsher, author of 'From Square One,' weighs in on the appeal of the crossword....

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[ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:24:43 -0400 ]

NPR Books: June 19, 2009

Stories in this episode: 1) Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro's new novel merges vampire folklore with the very modern paranoia over pandemics. 2) Looking to cozy up with some good books? Librarian Nancy Pearl has some great suggestions. 3) A multivolume dictionary five decades in the making collects the nation's linguistic treasures....

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[ Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:13:49 -0400 ]

NPR Books: June 12, 2009

Stories in this episode: 1) This year's selections take readers from the great outdoors to the inside of a Scrabble factory. 2) Google's new e-book plan could give the Amazon Kindle a run for its money by the end of this year. 3) Haunted by memories of failures from his youth, Robin Hemley went back for a second chance....

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[ Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:06:05 -0400 ]

NPR Books: June 5, 2009

Stories in this episode: Reviewer Alan Cheuse and writer Samantha Hunt offer their suggestions of books for summer. 2) The Kasper Hauser group's 'Weddings of the Times' pokes fun at formal wedding announcements. 3) For the first time, David Kaczynski has written about his relationship with the brother he admired. 4) These three books about the intensity of illicit love are meant to be savored for eternity....

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[ Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:44:10 -0400 ]

NPR Books: May 22, 2009

Stories in this episode: 1) As author Clinton Heylin explains, Shakespeare's sonnets were never intended for a wide audience. 2) Karl Taro Greenfeld describes growing up with his autistic brother in his book 'Boy Alone.' 3) For Jeffrey Eugenides, Saul Bellow's 1964 tale of a man on the rocks beats any dose of caffeine. 4) A novel wears an autobiography's disguise in Clive James' rereleased 'Unreliable Memoirs.'...

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[ Fri, 22 May 2009 15:53:37 -0400 ]

NPR Books: May 15, 2009

Stories in this episode: 1) Elizabeth Edwards has survived campaigns, cancer, the death of a child and her husband's infidelity. 2) Kamila Shamsie loves 'In the Skin of a Lion' enough to shout it from the rooftops. 3) Matthew Pearl's 'The Last Dickens' focuses on the perils of early author tours in America....

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[ Fri, 15 May 2009 13:04:23 -0400 ]

NPR Books: May 7, 2009

Stories in this episode: 1) Fascination with dead bodies is the focus of one of the most gruesome coffee table books ever. 2) 'Found' magazine's new book features scraps of paper and lost things found by famous people. 3) In 'Annie's Ghosts,' Steve Luxenberg details his quest to learn about the aunt he never knew....

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[ Thu, 07 May 2009 14:14:49 -0400 ]

NPR Books: April 30, 2009

Stories in this episode: 1) Robert Goolrick's new book 'A Reliable Wife' spins a tale that will keep many a reader turning the pages late at night to find out what happens next. 2) The humor in Christopher Buckley's latest book is of a personal — sometimes sad — nature. 3) George Scialabba's new collection of essays asks, 'What Are Intellectuals Good For?'...

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[ Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:55:50 -0400 ]

NPR Books: April 23, 2009

Stories in this episode: 1) An anniversary edition of 'The Elements of Style' chronicles the making of a classic. 2) The younger of the filmmaking Coen brothers is the author of two recently published books. 3) When violence exploded at Columbine High, Dave Cullen was one of the first journalists on the story....

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[ Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:54:14 -0400 ]

NPR Books: April 16, 2009

Stories in this episode: 1) Author Charles Bock calls Castle Freeman Jr.'s novel 'Go With Me' a "wry, primal, epic." 2) Publishers Gamble On Blockbuster Book Deals: Can the publishing industry afford to offer Tina Fey and Kathy Griffin seven-figure deals? 3) Romi Lassally's new book gathers together women's confessions of "mommy misdemeanors."...

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[ Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:53:30 -0400 ]

NPR Books: April 8, 2009

Stories in this episode: 1) Why do smart people shell out good money for diet books? 2) If you met former 'Washington Post' executive Leslie Morgan Steiner on the street, you might never guess her secret: that she was once married to a man who beat her with abandon on a regular basis. 3) When author Rebecca Flowers was downsized twice in three months, she crawled into bed to console herself with books about other women in similar situations. 4) The photograph of an author plays an important ro...

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[ Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:46:33 -0400 ]

NPR Books: April 2, 2009

Stories in this episode: 1) Journalist Evan Wright has written about the lives of porn stars, anarchists and con artists in many mainstream magazines. He talks about a new collection of his stories: 'Hella Nation.' 2) Historian Quentin Taylor reads modern parallels in L. Frank Baum's classic children's novel. 3) New novels are facing off in The Tournament of Books, a bracket-style showdown at themorningnews.org. Competition is based on readers' picks and reviewers' choices. The site's foundin...

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[ Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:04:27 -0400 ]

NPR Books: March 27, 2009

Stories in this episode: 1) In 1995, Debra Gwartney's two oldest daughters hopped a freight train and disappeared. Her memoir, 'Live Through This,' is the story of heartache and panic as she tried to track her children down. 2) Twenty-seven years after his death, the life and work of John Cheever are in the spotlight again. 3) In 'A Hope in the Unseen,' a teen escapes the inner city, then faces new battles in college....

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[ Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:21:29 -0400 ]

NPR Books: March 18, 2009

Stories in this episode: 1) Poetry is a living, breathing medium in the Arab world. 2) Novelist Zoe Heller's latest effort, 'The Believers' proves her devotion to unlikable characters. 3) Johnson vs. Bird and the dawn of March Madness: Thirty years ago, millions of viewers watched a basketball game that would change sports forever....

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[ Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:23:24 -0400 ]

NPR Books: March 12 2009

Stories in this episode: 1) A new book follows a troubled teen trying to save the world in the New York City subway system. 2) Slate.com editor David Plotz talks about his new book, 'Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible.' 3) 'The Kindly Ones,' by Jonathan Littell, is the fictional memoir of a Nazi exterminator....

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[ Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:24:17 -0400 ]

NPR Books: March 6, 2009

Stories in this episode: 1) Harper's editor Roger Hodge calls the magazine's monthly Index "a statistical poem." 2) James Lever talks about his fictionalized memoir, 'Me, Cheeta: My Life in Hollywood.' 3) Mark Barrowcliffe shares three fantasy books that offer a glimpse of a life less ordinary. 4) Ukrainian-born author and humorist Sholem Aleichem was a champion of the Yiddish language....

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[ Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:11:22 -0400 ]

NPR Books: February 27, 2009

Stories in this episode: 1) Robert Darnton, head librarian at Harvard University, says the deal violates a basic American principle — that knowledge should be free and accessible to all. 2) Novelist Barbara Hall explores the idea that not everyone is called to be a professional musician. 3) Maureen Corrigan reviews 'Drood' and the 'Twilight' series....

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[ Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:10:58 -0400 ]

NPR Books: February 20, 2009

Stories in this episode: 1) 'The Other Side of Desire' explores erotic drives that fall outside the normal zones. 2) Joan Rivers has written a new mystery novel 'Murder at the Academy Awards.' 3) From 1935 to 1939, an army of folklorists and writers went in search of tales both real and tall. A new book revisits the project....

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[ Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:55:57 -0500 ]

NPR Books: February 20, 2009

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[ Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:49:25 -0500 ]

NPR Books: February 12, 2009

Stories in this episode: 1) In 'The Mighty Queens of Freeville,' Amy Dickinson writes about the strong women in her life. 2) As Amazon unveils its updated reader, some booksellers are saying A.B.K. — anything but Kindle. 3) Critic Maureen Corrigan says Yu Hua's new novel about life in a Chinese village is sensational. 4) On the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth, NPR tours Ford's Theatre, where he was shot in 1865....

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[ Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:05:24 -0500 ]

NPR Books: February 6, 2009

Stories in this episode: 1) In 'Squint: My Journey with Leoprosy,' Jose P. Ramierez Jr. writes about his life and recovery. 2) Jayne Anne Phillips' 'Lark & Termite' has drawn comparisons to 'The Sound and the Fury.' 3) The new tell-all book 'Bases Loaded' by a former clubhouse attendant is now out, but book sellers say readers are tired of sports doping stories....

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[ Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:56:01 -0500 ]

NPR Books: January 12, 2009

1) Songs for the Butcher's Daugher is a new novel about a friendship between a young man and the last living Yiddish poet; 2) NPR's Moscow correspondent, Gregory Feifer talks about his book on the Soviet war in Afghanistan; 3) A group of women authors discuss their new advice book, "Go Tell Michelle: African American Women write to the new First Lady; 4) NPR's Scott Simon speaks with comedian Joan Rivers about her new book on plastic surgery....

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[ Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:35:29 -0500 ]

NPR Books: January 5, 2009

1) People are getting hooked on wovels, an on-line novel written serially; 2) A collection of quirky essays on China's booming economy; 3) A poet speaks with host Liane Hansen about Civil Rights Poets; 4) A memoir by an author whose child dies in utero....

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[ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:16:26 -0500 ]

NPR Books: December 31, 2008

1) Mystery writer, Mary Higgins Clark, and her daughter, Carol, discuss suspense writing with NPR's Renee Montagne; 2) Writer Melissa Banks says you must read this book; 3) Iranian author, Azar Nafisi, talks about her new memoir...

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[ Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:47:24 -0500 ]

NPR Books: December 29, 2008

1) A biography on writer George Plimpton; 2) A new biography looks at how one forgotten chef greatly shaped American cuisine; 3) A number of children's books are about Hurricane Katrina; 4) A book looks inside the Astor family....

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[ Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:15:13 -0500 ]

NPR Books: December 23, 2008

1) A commentator talks about blending different holiday traditions; 2) Economists put large numbers in perspective; 3) An MIT professor collects her students' essays about a specific object that motivated them to pursue a career in science; 4) The lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein are collected in a new coffee table book....

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[ Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:04:35 -0500 ]

NPR Books: December 19, 2008

1) Holiday books for children; 2) A novelist comments on Governor Blagojevich's current situation; 3) Books on parenting; 4) A book of essays written by MIT students about their first interest in science...

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[ Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:34:27 -0500 ]

NPR Books: December 15, 2008

1) Different books to give as gifts this holiday season; 2) An Iranian photojournalist talks about his new book; 3) NPR's Susan Stamberg has advice on which books to give this holiday season; 4) An author speaks about his new book, "Family Planning", set in New Delhi....

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[ Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:29:31 -0500 ]

NPR Books: December 8, 2008

1) The publishing world's hard week, with job losses, reorganizations, and nervousness about booksellers' holiday sales; 2) John Milton's 400th birthday this week is being celebrated with exhibits and readings of his "Paradise Lost"; 3) "Loot" by Sharon Waxman investigates the trafficking of ancient artifacts, and the clash between museums and the countries from which antiquities were taken; 4) Calvin Trillin has written a book of poetry called "Deciding the Next Decider" about the 2008 p...

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[ Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:10:04 -0500 ]

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