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Lucy Sante, shown here in January 2024, says, "I am lucky to have survived my own repression. I think a lot of people in my position have not."

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  • Author Interviews

A gender-swapping photo app helped Lucy Sante come out as trans at age 67

In 2021, Sante, who was assigned male at birth, was playing around with a face-altering app and she had a breakthrough. Her new memoir is I Heard Her Call My Name.

February 21, 2024
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  • Tonya Mosley
Jada Pinkett Smith's creative life.

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  • Arts & Life

Jada Pinkett Smith, the artist

Jada Pinkett Smith is the kind of celebrity that makes headlines just by breathing. But looking at those headlines — mostly about her marriage to fellow actor, Will Smith — made host Brittany Luse think that most people have gotten Jada all wrong. A graduate of the Baltimore School for the Arts, Jada's best known for her acting, but she's also a producer, musician, and painter. After reading her memoir, Worthy, Brittany noticed the way Jada's artistic mind and process had been overlooked. So, she sat down with Jada to ask about it. They talked about what Jada's painting, what she got out of her time as a rock singer, why she looks at her relationship with Will as a masterpiece, and what she wants for her future.

February 20, 2024
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  • Brittany Luse,
  • Liam McBain,
  • and 2 more

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  • Book Reviews

'Splinters' is a tribute to the love of a mother for a daughter

In different variations of her signature, beautifully frank language, Leslie Jamison writes about her fantasy of stability and her uncertainty as to whether it's a dream she actually wants fulfilled.

February 20, 2024
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By:
  • Ilana Masad

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  • Book Reviews

You'll savor the off-beat mysteries served up by 'The Kamogawa Food Detectives'

Hisashi Kashiwai's charming novel centers on a diner where carefully reconstructed meals help unlock mysteries of memory and regret.

February 19, 2024
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  • Maureen Corrigan
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Savannah Book Festival returns this weekend with over 30 authors — including one very special guest

Festival will celebrate 30th anniversary of “The Book,” as it's known to Savannahians.

February 15, 2024
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  • Benjamin Payne

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  • Book Reviews

Kelly Link's debut novel 'The Book of Love' is magical, confusing, heartfelt, strange

Short-story writer Kelly Link's first novel delves into the complications of love and friendship, family drama, grief, resilience, and the power of adaptability, while delivering a supernatural tale.

February 15, 2024
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  • Gabino Iglesias

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  • Book Reviews

Looking for love? You'll find it in 2024 in these 10 romance novels

While many of us are thinking of love this Valentine's Day, here are some of the best romance novels hitting shelves in the first half of the year to help plan your reading tour de romance in 2024.

February 14, 2024
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By:
  • Kalyani Saxena
Author and cultural critic bell hooks poses for a portrait on December 16, 1996 in New York City, New York.

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  • Arts & Life

Unlocking desire through smut; plus, the gospel of bell hooks

This week, we're asking: do the fantasies we read in romance novels say anything about what we want in our real-life relationships? Devoted readers share how the genre has impacted their love lives. Host Brittany Luse revisits her conversation with writer Rebekah Weatherspoon about how she builds a world of desire.

Then, we revisit our talk with Dr. Gale E. Greenlee, teacher-scholar in residence at the bell hooks center in Berea Kentucky, about lasting impact of bell hooks' work, and how she changed the way we think about love.

If you have 10 minutes, please do the team at It's Been a Minute a huge favor by taking a short, anonymous survey about the show at npr.org/ibamsurvey. Tell us what you like and how we could improve the show!

February 14, 2024
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  • Brittany Luse,
  • Liam McBain,
  • and 3 more

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  • Book Reviews

'I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both' is a rare, genuinely successful rock novel

Mariah Stovall manages to convey the essence of punk and emo through the prose itself; this is an excellent novel, compassionate and filled with a sparkling intelligence about the human condition.

February 13, 2024
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  • Michael Schaub

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  • Family

The secret to lasting love? Sometimes it's OK to go to bed angry

The Gottmans have been studying marriage and relationships for 40 years. In a new book, Fight Right, they explain how successful couples resolve their conflicts.

February 13, 2024
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  • Andee Tagle

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  • Book Reviews

Move over, senior center — these 5 books center seniors

These books, including Roxana Robinson's Leaving, which comes out on Tuesday, all concern older women — some in their 60s, others in their 90s — who fully intend to enjoy all their years.

February 10, 2024
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By:
  • Heller McAlpin
A person dressed as Bigfoot makes their way through the snow during a blizzard in Boston in January 2015. John O'Connor's <em>The Secret History of Bigfoot</em> explores the myth and its lingering appeal.

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  • Book Reviews

Is Bigfoot real? A new book dives deep into the legend

The Secret History of Bigfoot is a smart, hilarious, and wonderfully immersive journey into the history of Bigfoot, the culture around it, the people who obsess about it, and the psychology behind it.

February 09, 2024
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By:
  • Gabino Iglesias
Benjamin Herold is the author of "Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs."

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  • News

In 'Disillusioned,' author Benjamin Herold grapples with the false promise of the suburbs

In his new book, Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs, Benjamin Herold explores why the suburbs have failed to provide the upward mobility so many Americans dream of.

February 08, 2024
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  • Peter Biello

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  • Book Reviews

Pregame the Super Bowl with our favorite football fiction

Of course, leave it to the gigantic nerds at NPR to throw a literary tailgate ... but to thine own self be true, even if it means getting stuffed into your locker later this afternoon.

February 08, 2024
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By:
  • Beth Novey
Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake perform at the Super Bowl halftime show in 2004.

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  • Arts & Life

Reexamining the 'upskirt decade' and the public ridicule of female pop stars

The new book Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s reassesses a time when popular culture policed, ridiculed and even took down a variety of women in the public eye.

February 08, 2024
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  • Scott Detrow,
  • Gabriel J. Sánchez,
  • and 1 more
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