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'A Snake Falls To Earth' tackles real life issues in a fantastical world

Dec 8, 2021 · 9m

✨ Darcie Little Badger's 'A Snake Falls To Earth' tackles climate anxiety in a YA novel.

Darcie Little Badger

Surviving high school in 'Huda F Are You?'

Dec 7, 2021 · 7m

✨ Huda Fahmy's graphic novel 'Huda F Are You?' fictionalizes her teenage years.

Huda Fahmy

Robert Jones Jr. and Laird Hunt talk tragedies and overlooked histories

Dec 7, 2021 · 15m

✨ Robert Jones Jr.'s 'The Prophets' centers on enslaved Black queer people in America.

Laird Hunt Robert Jones Jr

15m

Chancellor Angela Merkel's last dance

Dec 6, 2021 · 8m

✨ Kati Marton's biography 'The Chancellor' covers Angela Merkel's 16-year tenure.

Kati Marton

Louise Erdrich and Kevin Brockmeier are not writing campfire ghost stories

Dec 3, 2021 · 21m

✨ Louise Erdrich discusses her novel 'The Sentence' set in a haunted bookstore.

Kevin Brockmeier Louise Erdrich

21m

NPR's Short Wave: 'An Outsider's Guide to Humans'

Dec 2, 2021 · 15m

✨ Camilla Pang discusses her memoir 'An Outsider's Guide to Humans'.

Camilla Pang

15m

'All That She Carried' weaves together generations of Black women

Dec 1, 2021 · 11m

✨ Tiya Miles chronicles three generations of Black women through a single bag.

Tiya Miles

11m

'Chouette' is part owl part human baby. Fine. But how to raise her?

Nov 30, 2021 · 9m

✨ Claire Oshetsky discusses her novel 'Chouette' about a mother and owl-human baby.

Claire Oshetsky

'Black Food' is more than just recipes, it's the stories behind them

Nov 29, 2021 · 12m

✨ Bryant Terry curated 'Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes From Across The African Diaspora'.

Bryant Terry

12m

Celebrating NPR's Petra Mayer with three literary things she loved

Nov 26, 2021 · 15m

✨ Remembering NPR's Petra Mayer with literary works she loved.

Beverly Jenkins Sir Andrew Motion

15m

Tommy Orange is here to hold the door open for future Indigenous writers

Nov 25, 2021 · 8m

✨ Tommy Orange discusses his novel 'There There', a Native American history.

Tommy Orange

'Calvin' shows how transgender kids can express who they really are

Nov 24, 2021 · 9m

✨ JR and Vanessa Ford discuss their children's book 'Calvin'.

JR Ford Vanessa Ford

'The Island of Missing Trees' uses, well, trees to chronicle generational trauma

Nov 23, 2021 · 8m

✨ Elif Shafak's 'The Island of Missing Trees' uses trees to tell a story.

Elif Shafak

'Out of Office' considers 'why' companies want to bring back remote employees

Nov 22, 2021 · 7m

✨ Anne Helen Peterson and Charlie Warzel discuss their book 'Out of Office'.

Anne Helen Peterson Charlie Warzel

Murder! Space! James Bond! Chris Hadfield and Anthony Horowitz talk thrillers

Nov 19, 2021 · 17m

✨ Chris Hadfield discusses his thriller novel 'The Apollo Murders'.

Anthony Horowitz Chris Hadfield

17m

'Misfire' takes an inside look at the corruption at the heart of the NRA

Nov 18, 2021 · 7m

✨ Tim Mak discusses his book 'Misfire' on NRA corruption.

Tim Mak

'Beautiful Country' looks back on a young Chinese girl's undocumented childhood

Nov 17, 2021 · 8m

✨ Qian Julie Wang shares her memoir 'Beautiful Country'.

Qian Julie Wang

SJ Sindu makes and unmakes a god in her new novel 'Blue Skinned Gods'

Nov 16, 2021 · 6m

✨ SJ Sindu discusses her novel 'Blue Skinned Gods'.

SJ Sindu

'Hail Mary' sets the record straight on the history of the women's football league

Nov 15, 2021 · 8m

✨ Britni de la Cretaz discusses 'Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women's Football League'.

Britni de la Cretaz Lyndsey D'Arcangelo

'Dear Memory' and 'Cokie' both look toward the future while remembering the dead

Nov 12, 2021 · 16m

✨ Steven Roberts remembers his late wife, journalist Cokie Roberts, in his book 'Cokie'.

Steven Roberts Victoria Chang

16m

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