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Kevin Kwan explores race and identity in 'Sex and Vanity' and 'Lies and Weddings'
Today's encore episode features two interviews with Kevin Kwan, author of the Crazy Rich Asians series. First, former NPR host Lulu Garcia-Navarro sp…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
In Emma Straub's novel 'All Adults Here,' family is messy
Author Emma Straub has written a book about family dynamics and the mess and love that comes with them in All Adults Here. It's no secret that famili…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
In 'Lessons in Chemistry' a chemist is the star of... a cooking show?
Bonnie Garmus' novel Lessons in Chemistry got a lot of buzz when it was first released in 2022. Elizabeth Zott is a talented chemist but because it's…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
'The Rachel Incident' looks back on early-20s friendships, love and mistakes
The novel The Rachel Incident is rooted around a wonderful, messy friendship. Rachel and James live together, party, and get themselves into a peculi…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Emily Henry's 'Funny Story' centers a new character in rom-com tropes
Two childhood best friends realize they're in love and break up with their significant others to be together – that's a classic romantic-comedy story…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
New books by Damon Young and Dennard Dayle take different routes to humor
Today on the show, two new books take different routes to humor. First, writer Damon Young is out with an anthology of comedic essays called That's H…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
'The Pretender' centers on a real peasant who learns he is heir to England's throne
In 1483, a 10-year-old peasant named John Collan is visited by a stranger who shares a life-changing piece of information. John isn't the son of a fa…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
In 'The Science of Revenge,' an expert explains why humans are hardwired for payback
In his new book, The Science of Revenge, James Kimmel Jr. argues that there is a human desire to get even – and it might even be an addiction. Kimmel…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
'Great Black Hope' is a character study of a young, Black, queer man in high society
Smith – the protagonist in Great Black Hope – is at a party in the Hamptons when he's arrested for cocaine possession. Smith is a young, Black, queer…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
'Fatherhood' traces a history of masculinity, from Aristotle to Sigmund Freud
Historian Augustine Sedgewick became a father in the summer of 2017. At the time, media events like the Bill Cosby trial were publicly challenging id…
9 months, 4 weeks ago