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'From socialite to shopgirl': American Girl Samantha gets a new story
Sun Oct 18 7:00 am
As the American Girl doll company celebrates its 40th anniversary, Samantha has turned 25 — and is the subject of a new historical fiction novel by author Fiona Davis.
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Sally Rooney's books will no longer be sold in U.K. after support for pro-Palestinian group
Fri Oct 16 7:30 am
The Irish author said her books can no longer be sold in the UK after she pledged the royalties to a banned pro-Palestinian group.
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Anne Rice's 'Interview with the Vampire' turns 50
Fri Oct 16 5:00 am
After the death of her 5-year-old daughter from leukemia, Rice wrote her 1976 novel as a way to process her grief. It would go on to become an international bestseller. Originally broadcast in 1990.
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'Luna, Phoenix, Queen' is a masterfully plotted, gorgeously moving novel
Thu Oct 15 8:16 am
Julie Orringer's new novel is a multivalent love story, a tale of sickness and health, dementia and brilliance, betrayal and loyalty. It's both heartbreaking and heartwarming.
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Why should the CIA should spy on companies abroad?
Wed Oct 14 4:27 pm
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with David S. Cohen, former deputy director of the CIA, about his piece in Foreign Affairs entitled "The Case for Economic Espionage."
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Aboard an icebreaker, a writer got a closer look at the Arctic's 'Sea Change'
Wed Oct 14 3:42 pm
As polar ice melts in the Arctic, shipping lanes are opening up, making the region a new zone of superpower competition. Writer Rana Foroohar explains the stakes in Sea Change.
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'New Yorker' cartoonists admit to having 'The Two Saddest Kitchens'
Wed Oct 14 2:49 pm
The Two Saddest Kitchens is a comic conversation between Roz Chast and Jason Adam Katzenstein. Book critic Maureen Corrigan says it made her laugh and feel better about her own (lack of) cooking.
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Reality star Collin Gosselin on the trauma of his off-camera childhood & new memoir
Tue Oct 13 4:03 pm
NPR's Juana Summers speaks to Collin Gosselin, who appeared on the reality show 'Jon & Kate Plus 8' as a child, about his new memoir and the allegations of abuse he makes against his mother.
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Writer Yiyun Li lost both of her sons. When words fell short, she turned to music
Tue Oct 13 1:41 pm
Li won a Pulitzer for her memoir about the suicides of her two sons. In her new novel, Music Against the Night, she writes about two young prodigies in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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