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What to expect when you're expecting <em>House of the Dragon</em> season 2: This. Lots of this.

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  • TV Reviews

Seven things to look for in season 2 of 'House of the Dragon'

The first season of HBO's Game of Thrones spin-off ended with the beginning of a civil war. Here's what to expect out of season 2.

October 28, 2022
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By:
  • Glen Weldon
One journalist's memoir of rehabilitation is being banned in Florida state prisons.

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  • Law

A reporter's memoir of her jail time gets banned in Florida prisons

Keri Blakinger, a reporter with The Marshall Project, received word this week that the Florida state prison system placed her book, Corrections in Ink, on a temporary ban.

October 28, 2022
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
John Steinbeck talks to media in the office of his publisher in New York on Oct. 25, 1962.

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  • Arts & Life

An unearthed John Steinbeck column probes the strength of U.S. democracy

Decades ago, as communists and suspected communists were being blacklisted and debates spread over the future of American democracy, John Steinbeck wrote about his homeland in Le Figaro.

October 28, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Bono, left, with <em>Morning Edition </em>co-host Rachel Martin.

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Bono discusses his new memoir, 'Surrender,' and the faith at U2's core

The veteran rock star speaks with Morning Edition about his new memoir, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story — and in particular, his deep-rooted spirituality.

October 27, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Martin,
  • Phil Harrell,
  • and 1 more

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  • Book Reviews

3 books in translation that ask a lot — and allow the reader to ask a lot in return

Concerning My Daughter, Hugs and Cuddles and Freeway: La Movie do not pretend to be easy reads, yet they are all completely consuming.

October 27, 2022
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By:
  • Lily Meyer
Scholar Mike Davis was a public intellectual best known for his book <em>City of Quartz</em> and other searing critiques of capitalism, corruption and environmental degradation.

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Writer, truck driver, meat cutter and prophet of compassion Mike Davis dies at 76

Davis was a public intellectual best known for his book City of Quartz and other searing critiques of capitalism, corruption and environmental degradation.

October 26, 2022
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  • Neda Ulaby
GPB News NPR

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  • Author Interviews

Musician Rhiannon Giddens on her new children's book about taking back her home

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Grammy Award-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens about her new children's book, Build a House.

October 25, 2022
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By:
  • Megan Lim,
  • Ashley Brown,
  • and 1 more
Author Colleen Hoover signs her novel, "It Starts with Us."

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  • Book News & Features

Author Colleen Hoover went from tending cows to writing bestsellers

The top-selling author in the country right now is a 42-year-old mom and former social worker who lives in the same small Texas town where she's spent practically her entire life.

October 25, 2022
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman

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  • Book Reviews

Cormac McCarthy's new books seem to try to encapsulate the human experience

The Passenger and Stella Maris -- the author's first two books in more than a decade — seem to want to decode the meaning of life, both as standalone novels and together as intertwined works.

October 25, 2022
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By:
  • Gabino Iglesias
Writer and LGBTQ activist George M. Johnson sparked conversation — and controversy — with their 2020 memoir about growing up Black and queer. <em>All Boys Aren't Blue</em> has been banned in dozens of school libraries.

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  • Author Interviews

Their book is banned from dozens of districts, but has helped countless young readers

Writer and LGBTQ activist George M. Johnson spoke with Morning Edition about what's lost when books like their 2020 memoir All Boys Aren't Blue are banned from school libraries.

October 25, 2022
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By:
  • Reena Advani and
  • Rachel Treisman
Sean Sherman is the co-founder of the Minneapolis restaurant, Owamni.

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  • Food

The Sioux Chef uses only native ingredients, but isn't 'cooking like it's 1491'

You won't find wheat, dairy or sugar at Sean Sherman's award-winning Minneapolis restaurant. The menu has been "decolonized," but that doesn't mean it feels antiquated.

October 24, 2022
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By:
  • Sam Briger
"You like it? Is it too much?  It's not too much, right?" Rhaenyra (Emma D'Arcy) zazzes up Dragonstone with a statement piece.

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  • TV Reviews

'House of the Dragon' episode 10: Dance, dragons, dance

In the season finale of HBO's Game of Thrones spinoff, Rhaenyra assesses her position and the skies over Westeros become less than friendly.

October 24, 2022
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By:
  • Glen Weldon
GPB News NPR

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  • Arts & Life

Salman Rushdie has lost sight in one eye and the use of one hand, his agent says

Literary agent Andrew Wylie told newspaper El Pais that Rushdie suffered three serious wounds to his neck and 15 more wounds to his chest and torso after a stabbing attack in August.

October 24, 2022
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  • The Associated Press

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  • Book Reviews

A canine psychologist with a new puppy explores 'how dogs become themselves'

Alexandra Horowitz is an authority on how dogs perceive the world, but her new book is not a training manual. In The Year of the Puppy, she says there's plenty she doesn't know about canine cognition.

October 24, 2022
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By:
  • Maureen Corrigan
GPB News NPR

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  • Books

A new bookstore in Louisville, Ky., specializes in horror novels

Jenny Kiefer is the owner of Butcher Cabin Books in Louisville, Ky. The new bookstore specializes in horror novels.

October 24, 2022
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By:
  • Ayesha Rascoe
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