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'Anything's Pastable' and 'My Life in Recipes' explore viral pasta and family history
Anything's Pastable and My Life in Recipes, new cookbooks from Dan Pashman and Joan Nathan, get personal in very different ways. Pashman, the James Beard Award-winning podcaster, sets out to revoluti…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
'Eruption' is a collaboration between Michael Crichton and James Patterson
Jurassic Park creator Michael Crichton spent years working on a manuscript about a volcano on the verge of a disastrous eruption in Hawaii. After he died in 2008, his wife Sherri found his boxes and …
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson talks Supreme Court ethics, family in 'Lovely One'
Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson remembers her first brush with the national spotlight as "white hot." When President Biden nominated her in 2022 to replace retiring Justice Step…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
'The Instrumentalist' is a story about music, imagination and Anna Maria della Pietà
Harriet Constable learned a lot about the real life of Anna Maria della Pietà — that she grew up in an orphanage, that she was a star violinist and a favored student of Antonio Vivaldi. But in her ne…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
'Ruin their Crops on the Ground' tracks the history and politics of food in the U.S.
Food is a source of nourishment, joy and autonomy for a lot of people – but in her new book, Ruin their Crops on the Ground, Andrea Freeman also tracks how the U.S. government has used food policy as…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
'The 15-Minute City' and 'Rethinking Rescue' reimagine existing systems
Today's episode features two books that advocate for new approaches to big problems: urban planning, poverty, and dog rescue. First, Here & Now's Scott Tong speaks with Carlos Moreno about The 15-Min…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
'How to Leave the House' follows a quest for a missing package
Natwest, 23, is about to finally leave for university. But a package he's waiting for has gone missing and – fearing humiliation if its contents are found out – he spends 24 hours looking for it all …
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
In 'On the Edge,' Nate Silver analyzes professional risk-takers
What do hedge fund managers, poker players and the scientist behind the mRNA vaccine have in common? In his new book, On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything, Nate Silver argues that they all exis…
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'Hurdles in the Dark' is a memoir about a kidnapping, juvenile detention and racing
Elvira K. Gonzalez says there was a lot of beauty to growing up in the culturally rich border town of Laredo, Texas. But there were some challenges, too. Her new memoir, Hurdles in the Dark, chronicl…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Graphic novel 'Einstein in Kafkaland' ponders how two great minds met in Prague
From 1911 to 1912, Albert Einstein and Franz Kafka both lived in Prague. A new graphic novel by Ken Krimstein uses both history and artistic imagination to explore how the physicist and writer ran in…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago