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Stephen King finishes a story 45 years in the making in 'You Like It Darker'
You Like It Darker is a new collection of short stories by Stephen King — and as the author tells NPR's Mary Louise Kelly, one of those stories spent…
1 year, 10 months ago
The autobiography of John Swanson Jacobs offers a new look at slavery and migration
Harriet Jacobs is one of the best-known female abolitionists and authors who wrote about their experiences of enslavement in the South. But while sea…
1 year, 10 months ago
'The Mango Tree' is a memoir about growing up mixed-race Filipina in south Florida
The Mango Tree kicks off with a phone call: Journalist Annabelle Tometich is informed her mom has been arrested for shooting a man, with a BB gun, wh…
1 year, 10 months ago
Ada Limón talks forgiveness, ghosts and fertility on 'Wild Card'
U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón recently edited and introduced You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World, a collection of poems by writers like Joy Harj…
1 year, 10 months ago
'Malas' is a novel about womanhood, curses and family history in a Texas border town
Marcela Fuentes' debut novel, Malas, is set in a small town nestled on the border between Texas and Mexico. There, two vastly different women begin t…
1 year, 10 months ago
R.O. Kwon's novel 'Exhibit' grapples with sexual desire and Asian identity
Jin Han, the narrator of R.O. Kwon's Exhibit, is a photographer going through it – both with her work and her husband. When she meets ballerina Lidij…
1 year, 10 months ago
Kathleen Hanna remembers her path to becoming the OG 'Rebel Girl'
Before she founded the riot grrrl movement of the 1990s, Kathleen Hanna was a teenager volunteering at a rape and domestic violence shelter in Olympi…
1 year, 10 months ago
Illia Ponomarenko's memoir opens up about covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine
There's a lot of tragedy that goes into watching your home erupt into a battlefield. But journalist Illia Ponomarenko says as the Russian military se…
1 year, 10 months ago
Two books trace the social and historical impacts of food
Today's episode is all about food – but not in the form of recipes. First, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Victor M. Valle speaks to Here & Now's Deepa…
1 year, 10 months ago
Claire Messud's new novel is a sweeping tale of history, family and social change
Across seven decades, Claire Messud's novel This Strange Eventful History follows generations of a family from a colonized Algeria to far stretches o…
1 year, 10 months ago