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  • Author Interviews

'Sex And Lies' Author Leila Slimani: 'Women's Lives Matter'

Franco-Moroccan writer Leila Slimani's new book examines the restricted sex lives of women in a country where, she says, the unofficial motto is "Do what you wish, but never talk about it."

July 16, 2020
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  • Sarah McCammon

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  • Health

Psychiatrist: America's 'Extremely Punitive' Prisons Make Mental Illness Worse

Dr. Christine Montross says people with serious mental illnesses in the U.S. are far more likely to be incarcerated than to be treated in a psychiatric hospital. Her new book is Waiting for an Echo.

July 16, 2020
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By:
  • Dave Davies
Morris Koll, grandfather of NPR correspondent Pam Fessler's husband, enlisted in the U.S. Army and was sent to the Philippines in 1902. That's when he contracted leprosy. In 1935, public health authorities took him to the national leprosarium in Carville, La. Right: A treatment room at the facility is depicted on the cover of Fessler's new book, <em>Carville's Cure.</em>

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A Family Secret Inspired A New Book About Leprosy

NPR correspondent Pam Fessler, author of Carville's Cure: Leprosy, Stigma, and the Fight for Justice, talks about her research into this once feared disease — and its connection to COVID-19.

July 16, 2020
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By:
  • Diane Cole
Colin Jost, here in 2018, first joined <em>Saturday Night Live</em> as a writer 15 years ago. "It's a world that I love so much," he says of the show.

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  • Author Interviews

Colin Jost Of 'SNL' Knows You're Laughing At His 'Very Punchable Face'

SNL "Weekend Update" co-anchor Colin Jost acknowledges that his clean-cut image sometimes rubs people the wrong way. "When I get hurt or hit on camera ... the audience really loves it," he says.

July 14, 2020
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  • Terry Gross

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  • Author Interviews

'Brave New World' Meets 'The Handmaid's Tale' In Sophie Mackintosh's New Novel

In the world of Blue Ticket, girls are issued either blue tickets or white ones on the day of their first periods. Blue tickets grant a career but no children; white tickets mean home and family.

July 14, 2020
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By:
  • Ari Shapiro
Thomas Chatterton Williams, along with more than 150 journalists, authors and writers, published a letter decrying the "intolerant climate that has set in on all sides" of debate in <em>Harper's Magazine.</em>

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Thomas Chatterton Williams On Debate, Criticism And The Letter In 'Harper's Magazine'

A letter on the importance of open debate was published by Harper's Magazine this week and was signed by more than 150 prominent writers and thinkers, fueling a controversy over debate and privilege.

July 12, 2020
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  • Christianna Silva

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  • Author Interviews

'Utopia Avenue,' The Greatest Sixties Band That Never Was

David Mitchell's new novel chronicles the rise and fall of fictional 1960s psychedelic rock band. He says he was drawn to both the music and the "dark magic that was in the air" in that era.

July 11, 2020
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  • Scott Simon
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'The Beauty In Breaking' Chronicles Chaos And Healing In The Emergency Room

In a new memoir, Dr. Michele Harper writes about treating gunshot wounds, discovering evidence of child abuse — and drawing courage from her patients as she's struggled to overcome her own trauma.

July 09, 2020
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  • Dave Davies
Dana Canedy announces 2019 Pulitzer winners at a ceremony in New York.

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  • Author Interviews

Dana Canedy Is 1st Black Person To Head Major Publishing Imprint

Simon & Schuster has named Dana Canedy executive vice president and publisher of its namesake imprint. She is the first Black person and the third woman to hold that position.

July 09, 2020
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  • Rachel Martin
GPB  NPR

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  • Religion

'Unholy' Examines The Alliance Between White Evangelicals And Trump

The president isn't known for his faith. Instead, author Sarah Posner says he connects with Evangelicals by voicing the legal, social, religious and cultural grievances of the Christian right.

July 08, 2020
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  • Terry Gross

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  • Politics

'We've Got To Learn From Our History,' 'Demagogue' Author Warns

Author Larry Tye chronicles Sen. Joseph McCarthy's infamous smear campaign in a new book. He says both McCarthy and Trump are "bullies" who exploit fears and "point fingers when they're attacked."

July 07, 2020
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  • Terry Gross

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  • Author Interviews

Privilege Takes Many Forms In 'Friends And Strangers'

J. Courtney Sullivan's new novel examines the relationship between a mother and her child's caregiver — both women with significant degrees of privilege, despite their surface economic differences.

July 06, 2020
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  • Mary Louise Kelly
Author Susan Burton struggled with disordered eating for decades. <em>"</em>Hunger was something that I believed protected me and gave me power," she says.

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  • Health

From 'Empty' To 'Satisfied': Author Traces A Hunger That Food Can't Fix

For Susan Burton, decades of disordered eating was about power. "As long as I was bingeing, I didn't have to think. I didn't have to think about any loss or pain or wanting or yearning."

June 23, 2020
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  • Terry Gross
Author Mary Beth Keane joined Virginia Prescott for a virtual author talk series presented by the Atlanta History Center. They discussed her latest book, the New York Times best-seller "Ask Again, Yes."

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Author Mary Beth Keane's 'Ask Again, Yes' Explores Addiction, Mental Illness And Forgiveness

Mary Beth Keane’s 2019 novel Ask Again, Yes was an instant New York Times bestseller, and is now out on paperback. The book follows the families of two...

May 29, 2020
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By:
  • Virginia Prescott and
  • Jesse Nighswonger
Author Sue Monk Kidd joined Virginia Prescott for a virtual author talk series presented by the Atlanta History Center. They discussed Kidd's new novel, "The Book of Longings."

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  • News

Sue Monk Kidd’s 'The Book Of Longings' Imagines The Story Of Jesus’ Wife

Author Sue Monk Kidd was raised in a conventionally Baptist family in Sylvester, Georgia. Her memoir, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter , follows her...

May 08, 2020
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  • Virginia Prescott and
  • Jesse Nighswonger
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