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Josephine Baker (left), Mollie Moon (right) and the newly crowned Miss Beaux Arts Ball, 1960.

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How Black socialite Mollie Moon raised millions to fund the civil rights movement

Historian Tanisha Ford tells the story of the Harlem activist credited with raising millions to build economic and racial equality in the U.S. Ford's new book is Our Secret Society.

October 30, 2023
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  • Tonya Mosley

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  • Book Reviews

Alice McDermott's 'Absolution' transports her signature characters to Vietnam

McDermott's latest novel, which centers on two American women who meet in Saigon in 1963, explores themes of religion, humility and insistent charitable intervention.

October 30, 2023
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  • Maureen Corrigan
Dominic Sessa stars as Angus Tully and Paul Giamatti is Paul Hunham in Alexander Payne's <em>The Holdovers.</em>

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Alexander Payne keeps real emotion at bay in the coyly comic 'Holdovers'

Paul Giamatti plays a boarding school teacher charged with watching over the students who have no where to go during winter break in a throwback film that doesn't quite live up to its potential.

October 27, 2023
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  • Justin Chang
GPB News NPR

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  • Author Interviews

Novelist John Le Carré reflects on his own 'Legacy' of spying

The late spy novelist is the subject of a new documentary by Errol Morris, The Pigeon Tunnel. Le Carré worked for MI5 and MI6 early in his career. Originally broadcast in 1989 and 2017.

October 27, 2023
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  • Terry Gross
Werner Herzog describes his dramatic narration in films as a "stylized voice." At home with his wife, he says, "I am a mild-mannered, fluffy husband."<a href="#_msocom_2" data-key="44824"></a>

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Werner Herzog says it's not good to circle 'your own navel' but writes a memoir anyway

Herzog reflects on the curiosity that's fueled his career in the new memoir, Every Man for Himself and God Against All. Just don't expect a deep confessional: "I never liked too deep introspection."

October 25, 2023
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  • Terry Gross
GPB News NPR

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  • Author Interviews

'Flower Moon' author recounts the conspiracy to murder the Osage people

David Grann's 2017 book chronicled how members of the Osage Indian Nation were murdered in the 1920s by white people who wanted to take control of their land. Originally broadcast April 17, 2017.

October 20, 2023
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  • Dave Davies
Lily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio in <em>Killers of the Flower Moon.</em>

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Scorsese centers men and their violence once again in 'Killers of the Flower Moon'

Martin Scorsese's film, based on David Grann's book, tells the true story of white men in the 1920s who married into and systematically murdered Osage families to gain claims to their oil-rich land.

October 20, 2023
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  • Justin Chang
Greta Lee stars as a playwright caught between her American husband and her Korean childhood sweetheart in <em>Past Lives.</em>

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As a kid, Greta Lee identified with Val Kilmer — now, she imagines 'Past Lives'

Growing up, Lee recognized herself in the "really big, muscular performances" of Kilmer and Nicolas Cage. In Past Lives, she plays an immigrant torn between two men she loves.

October 19, 2023
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  • Ann Marie Baldonado
Jada Pinkett Smith is an actor, singer-songwriter, talk show host and producer. Her new memoir is called <em>Worthy.</em>

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For Jada Pinkett Smith, it's all lessons, not regrets

In a new memoir, Worthy, Pinkett Smith writes about her marriage to Will Smith, about how she charted a course from Baltimore to Hollywood, and about her close friendship with rapper Tupac Shakur.

October 17, 2023
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  • Tonya Mosley

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  • Book Reviews

'Blackouts' is an ingenious deathbed conversation between two friends

More than a decade after his debut, We the Animals, Justin Torres returns with a novel that centers on a deathbed conversation between two friends about the distortions and erasures of queer history.

October 16, 2023
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  • Maureen Corrigan
GPB News NPR

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  • Television

'Star Trek' actor Patrick Stewart says he's braver as a performer than he once was

The Star Trek: Picard actor says he's changed his approach over the years: "I am not averse to risk-taking and I don't judge myself. I used to do that so much. " Stewart's new memoir is Making It So.

October 13, 2023
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  • Sam Briger
The front page of <em>The Washington Post</em> newspaper from Aug. 6, 2013, the day after it was announced that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos had agreed to purchase the newspaper from the Graham family.

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Legendary editor Marty Baron describes his 'Collision of Power' with Trump and Bezos

Baron became executive editor of The Washington Post in 2013, just a few months before Jeff Bezos bought the paper. He predicts a second Trump presidency would be a "government of vengeance."

October 12, 2023
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  • Tonya Mosley
Helen Garner is an Australian novelist, journalist, diarist and screenwriter.

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This Australian writer might be the greatest novelist you've never heard of

Helen Garner, 80, embraces the many-sidedness of life. Her books crackle with curiosity and unpredictability — they win big prizes, kickstart controversies and say things other people rarely dare.

October 12, 2023
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  • John Powers
Niousha Noor plays Shireen, the woman based on Maryam Keshavarz's own mother, in <em>The Persian Version.</em>

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  • Movie Interviews

Banned in Iran, a filmmaker finds inspiration in her mother for 'The Persian Version'

Loosely based on Maryam Keshavarz's own life, The Persian Version centers on an Iranian American woman who identifies as bisexual and whose mother entered into an arranged marriage as a teen.

October 09, 2023
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  • Terry Gross
GPB News NPR

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  • Author Interviews

After a career of cracking cold cases, investigator Paul Holes opens up

Holes spent more than 20 years investigating crimes in California and played a critical role in identifying the so-called Golden State Killer. His book is Unmasked. Originally broadcast Aug. 10, 2022.

October 06, 2023
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  • Dave Davies
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