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Juli Min's novel 'Shanghailanders' unfolds in reverse
At the start of Juli Min's debut novel, it's 2040 in Shanghai, and a wealthy real estate developer is parting ways with his wife and adult daughters …
1 year, 8 months ago
Cory Richards' memoir covers mountains, photography and mental health
Cory Richards made a name for himself taking photographs across the globe for National Geographic. His new memoir, The Color of Everything, grapples …
1 year, 8 months ago
Sarah Perry's 'Enlightenment' ponders faith, astronomy and friendship
Sarah Perry's novel, Enlightenment, recently received a Booker Prize nomination. It follows the relationship between two friends, with a 30 year age …
1 year, 8 months ago
Novels by Claire Lombardo and Catherine Newman explore different stages of motherhood
Today's episode highlights two books that deal with what it means to be a mom, a wife and a multi-faceted, complicated woman. First, NPR's Danielle K…
1 year, 8 months ago
'The Boiling Moat' plants a military strategy to prevent China's capture of Taiwan
Matt Pottinger used to cover China for Reuters and The Wall Street Journal before working as a deputy national security advisor for the Trump adminis…
1 year, 8 months ago
Jon M. Chu's memoir 'Viewfinder' traces his journey to making movies
Before he was the director behind films like Crazy Rich Asians, In the Heights and Wicked, Jon M. Chu was a teenager in Los Altos, California, playin…
1 year, 8 months ago
In 'Liars,' Sarah Manguso explores a marriage falling apart
When author Sarah Manguso was going through a divorce a few years ago, she says she put her rage into writing her novel Liars. It's about the dissolu…
1 year, 8 months ago
Stephen Graham Jones explores a new side of horror in 'I Was a Teenage Slasher'
A small Texas town in the late 1980s, two teenagers on the outside of the social scene, and a curse for revenge. That's the setup for Stephen Graham …
1 year, 8 months ago
Riley Sager and Johanna Copeland set thrillers in suburbia
Today's episode features two page-turners full of suspense. First, NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with Todd Ritter – who publishes as Riley Sager – about Mi…
1 year, 8 months ago
Khushbu Shah's cookbook 'Amrikan' honors the Indian American diaspora
Today's episode is packed with recipes from Khushbu Shah's new cookbook, Amrikan. But beyond that, it's also a conversation with the author and Here …
1 year, 8 months ago