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'Silence Is A Sense' Works To Dispel The Terrible Abstractions Of Syria's Civil War

Layla Alammar's new novel is about a journalist who's fled the Syrian civil war for a new life in London — but can only tell anonymous stories about her neighbors because trauma has left her silent.

March 13, 2021
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  • Scott Simon
GPB  NPR

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  • Race

'Wilmington's Lie' Author Traces The Rise Of White Supremacy In A Southern City

David Zucchino says Wilmington, N.C., was once a mixed-race community with a thriving Black middle class. Then, in 1898, white supremacists staged a murderous coup. Originally broadcast Jan. 13, 2020.

March 12, 2021
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By:
  • Dave Davies
<em>Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain,</em> by Shankar Vedantam and Bill Mesler

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  • Author Interviews

'Useful Delusions' Examines How Beliefs Can Be Powerful In Positive And Negative Ways

In a new book, former NPR reporter Shankar Vedantam suggests attaining "a deeper psychological understanding of why people believe what they believe," being empathetic and considering costs involved.

March 12, 2021
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  • Steve Inskeep
GPB  NPR

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From SNL To SpongeBob, Laraine Newman Chronicles 'Interesting Times'

Newman was a founding member of the improv group The Groundlings and an original Saturday Night Live cast member. She's voiced dozens of animated characters and has just published a new audio memoir.

March 11, 2021
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  • Elizabeth Blair

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  • Author Interviews

Books Hold The Key To 'The Postscript Murders'

The woman who turns up dead at the start of Elly Griffiths' new novel billed herself as a "murder consultant" for writers. Griffiths says she was inspired by her aunt, who enjoys thinking up murders.

March 10, 2021
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By:
  • Mary Louise Kelly
Katie Engelhart details the right-to-die movement in her new book,<em> The Inevitable</em>. She says that many patients in the U.S. are forced to act alone, without telling friends and family, because they fear their loved ones will be prosecuted after the fact.

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  • Health Care

Inside The Fight For The Right To Die: Logistical And Ethical Challenges

Katie Engelhart explores the complexity of physician-assisted death in the book The Inevitable. She says patients seeking to end their own lives sometimes resort to veterinary drugs from overseas.

March 09, 2021
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By:
  • Terry Gross
Biochemist Jennifer Doudna, the subject of Walter Isaacson's new biography <em>The Code Breaker, </em>shared a Nobel prize in chemistry in 2020 for the part she played in developing the CRISPR gene editing technology.

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  • Health

CRISPR Scientist's Biography Explores Ethics Of Rewriting The Code Of Life

The Code Breaker profiles Jennifer Doudna, a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist key to the development of CRISPR, and examines the technology's exciting possibilities and need for oversight.

March 08, 2021
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By:
  • Terry Gross
<em>Shaking the Gates of Hell: A Search for Family and Truth in the Wake of the Civil Rights Revolution</em>, by John Archibald

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  • Author Interviews

Author Explores Preacher Father's Silence On Racial Injustice In 1960s Alabama

After Pulitzer Prize-winner John Archibald read sermons from his father's time as a Methodist preacher, he went on a quest to find out why his dad, a devout man, didn't speak out publicly on racism.

March 08, 2021
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  • Michel Martin

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  • Author Interviews

Annabelle Gurwitch's Mid-Life Maelstrom: Divorce, Cancer, 'Downward Mobility'

You're Leaving When? is a witty memoir of Gurwitch's many middle age misadventures — and it doesn't even cover the stage IV lung cancer diagnosis she received in the midst of the pandemic.

March 07, 2021
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  • Mandalit del Barco
GPB  NPR

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  • Author Interviews

James McBride's Advice For New Writers: 'A Simple Story Is The Best Story'

McBride's most recent novel, Deacon King Kong, is set in a Brooklyn housing project in 1969. "Time and place is really crucial to good storytelling," he says. Originally broadcast Feb. 29, 2020.

March 05, 2021
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  • Terry Gross
<em>What's Mine and Yours</em>, by Naima Coster

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  • Author Interviews

2 Determined Mothers Clash Over Integration Efforts In 'What's Mine And Yours'

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Naima Coster about her novel What's Mine And Yours, about a North Carolina high school in the middle of an integration program in the early 2000.

March 02, 2021
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  • Audie Cornish
Self-portrait of John Porcellino

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  • Author Interviews

King Cat John Porcellino On Comics, Zines And Trying To Make The World Less Crazy

Cartoonist and zine-maker John Porcellino has been a hugely influential figure in the world of zine-making. As several of his classic books are reissued, we talk to him about his life and work

February 28, 2021
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  • Etelka Lehoczky

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  • Author Interviews

'It's Hard To Leave Him': 'Sympathizer' Spy Story Continues In 'The Committed'

Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer Prize-winning spy novel The Sympathizer told the story of a communist double agent just after the Vietnam War — his quest for revolution resumes in The Committed.

February 27, 2021
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  • Scott Simon
Nico Walker

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  • Author Interviews

Will Nico Walker Watch 'Cherry?' Probably Not

The new movie Cherry follows an Iraq war vet who gets addicted to heroin and starts robbing banks. It's based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Nico Walker, who was just released from prison.

February 27, 2021
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  • Andrew Limbong
<em>Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans,</em> by Michaeleen Doucleff

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  • Author Interviews

'Hunt, Gather, Parent' Offers Lessons Collected Around The World

NPR's Michaeleen Doucleff found that parenting books she read after becoming a mom left a lot out. When she went through a tough period with her daughter, she traveled the world in search of guidance.

February 25, 2021
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  • Rachel Martin
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