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A little mouse sets sail on a big adventure in 'The Ship in the Window'

Author Travis Jonker and illustrator Matthew Cordell talk about the real model ship that inspired their picture book about a man, his son, a mouse, and the voyage that brings them together.

October 13, 2024
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  • Samantha Balaban
GPB  NPR

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  • Author Interviews

Gladwell reexamines 'The Tipping Point' -- releasing 'Revenge of the Tipping Point'

Decades after writing “The Tipping Point,” Malcolm Gladwell says he's less optimistic. He tells NPR's Steve Inskeep he reexamined his book about social epidemics, and rewrote it with darker themes.

October 03, 2024
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  • Steve Inskeep
Ta-Nehisi Coates teaches at Howard University, where he's the Sterling Brown endowed chair in the English department.

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  • Author Interviews

Ta-Nehisi Coates explores how oppression can breed oppression in 'The Message'

In his first nonfiction book in a decade, Coates reflects on what he learned while visiting three different places: Senegal, South Carolina and the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

October 01, 2024
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  • Terry Gross
Colin Kaepernick and Nessa Diab pose for a portrait.

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Colin Kaepernick and Nessa Diab wrote ‘We Are Free, You and Me’ with daughter in mind

Colin Kaepernick and Nessa Diab wrote a new children’s book inspired by affirmations they share with their daughter and scores of young people they meet through their activism.

October 01, 2024
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By:
  • Adriana Gallardo and
  • Michel Martin
"I love cooking for people I love," Ina Garten says. "And the cooking is just the medium; the thing that I care about is the connection."

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  • Food

Ina Garten shares her secret for a great dinner party: 6 people and a round table

"I like when everybody's knees are almost touching and it feels very intimate," the Barefoot Contessa host says. Garten's new memoir is Be Ready When the Luck Happens.

September 30, 2024
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  • Tonya Mosley
Aduba dedicates her new memoir to her mother, Nonyem Aduba. "My self-talk, the way that I motivate myself into pursuing this business ... is built out of language that my mother had given me," Aduba says.

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  • Author Interviews

Uzo Aduba thanks her mom: 'I didn't know how many prayers she sent up to heaven for me'

The Orange Is the New Black actor grew up the daughter of Nigerian immigrants in a predominantly white Massachusetts suburb. She looks back on her mother's influence in the memoir, The Road Is Good.

September 25, 2024
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  • Tonya Mosley
GPB  NPR

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  • Author Interviews

Mueller investigator says Russia interfered in 2016 -- and in the 2024 election too

Mueller deputy Aaron Zebley looks back on the investigation of Trump's ties to Russia and explains why his team didn’t indict the president in 2017. Zebley is the co-author of Interference.

September 24, 2024
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  • Terry Gross
Connie Chung, shown here in 2023, says watching a bad interview is painful: "I want to throw my shoe at [the television] if somebody isn't asking the question ... that I would ask."

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Connie Chung says booze and bawdy jokes helped her break into journalism's boys club

In a new memoir, Chung reflects on the decades she spent covering the news, her marriage to Maury Povich and the prominent figures who acted inappropriately with her — including President Carter.

September 18, 2024
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  • Tonya Mosley
After buying Twitter in 2022, Elon Musk changed the company's name to X.

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What Musk's Twitter takeover could tell us about a possible government appointment

After buying Twitter in 2022, Elon Musk instituted sweeping changes — including rebranding the social media platform as "X." Authors Kate Conger and Ryan Mac recount the takeover in Character Limit.

September 11, 2024
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  • Terry Gross
By the time he left 10 Downing Street in 2007, Tony Blair had gone from being Britain's most popular prime minister when he entered office to a deeply divisive leader a decade later.

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  • Politics

Tony Blair urges leaders to ignore 'waves of populist opinion'

Tony Blair's On Leadership: Lessons for the 21st Century is the political leadership guide he says he would have wanted in 1997, at the start of his 10-year tenure as British prime minister.

September 10, 2024
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By:
  • Olivia Hampton and
  • Steve Inskeep

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  • Author Interviews

Some babysitters are forever — just ask 'Señora Mimí'

Ana is so excited that her abuela is coming to live with her — until it means saying goodbye to her babysitter. No More Señora Mimí is an ode to caregivers from Meg Medina and Brittany Cicchese.

September 08, 2024
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  • Samantha Balaban
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is sworn-in during her Supreme Court confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 21, 2022.

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  • Law

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson shares the poem she's kept in every one of her offices

The first Black woman appointed to the Supreme Court says Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "The Ladder of Saint Augustine," has been a guiding principle. Jackson's new memoir is Lovely One.

September 04, 2024
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By:
  • Tonya Mosley
Danzy Senna  says her first novel, <em>Caucasia, </em>was met with acclaim. "But one of the things I kept hearing from publishers was: <em>Don't do this again. Don't keep writing about mixed-ness.</em> ... it's that idea that you're a predicament. You're not a world."  Her latest novel is <em>Colored Television.</em>

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  • Author Interviews

'I want to write myself into existence,' says 'Colored Television' author

Danzy Senna was born in 1970, just a few years after Loving v. Virginia legalized interracial marriage. “Just merely existing as a family was a radical statement at that time,” she says.

September 03, 2024
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By:
  • Terry Gross

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  • Author Interviews

'The Dictionary Story' is a kids' book that defies definition

Dictionary wants to bring her pages to life but then a hungry alligator chasing a donut crashes into a queen who slips on some soap and chaos ensues. Can Dictionary put herself back together again?

September 01, 2024
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  • Samantha Balaban
 Grief is complicated, but author Annie Sklaver Orenstein tells <em>Morning Edition </em>there are simple ways to help those grieving a loss.

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  • Mental Health

Grieving the dead is complicated. Here's how you can help someone experiencing loss

Annie Sklaver Orenstein, author of Always a Sibling: The Forgotten Mourner’s Guide to Grief, tells Morning Edition that grief is complicated but there are simple things someone can do for those going through it.

August 31, 2024
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  • Reena Advani and
  • Michel Martin
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