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Author Kazuo Ishiguro and singer Stacey Kent collaborate on new songbook
When Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro went on the BBC program Desert Island Discs, he spoke about how much he loves the music of jazz singer…
1 year, 10 months ago
In 'All Fours,' Miranda July tackles love, sex and reinvention in middle age
Writer and filmmaker Miranda July says the popular imagination sort of drops off once a woman gets married and has kids. Her new novel All Fours turn…
1 year, 10 months ago
Doris Kearns Goodwin's new book is part memoir, part history of the 1960s
When Dick Goodwin reached his 80s, he asked his wife – historian Doris Kearns Goodwin – to finally open and sift through the hundreds of boxes he'd k…
1 year, 10 months ago
Whoopi Goldberg and Tom Selleck memoirs look back at their beginnings
Today's episode is about two massive stars: Whoopi Goldberg and Tom Selleck. First, Goldberg speaks with NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about her new memoir, Bi…
1 year, 11 months ago
'The SalviSoul Cookbook' celebrates Salvadoran food and the matriarchs who cook it
Years ago, Karla Tatiana Vasquez tried to search up a recipe for one of her favorite Salvadoran dishes, Salpicón Salvadoreño. The scarce results not …
1 year, 11 months ago
'The Paris Novel' revels in a good meal, a beautiful dress and a romantic city
A plane ticket to Paris, a vintage Dior dress and a spectacular first-ever oyster — these three things upend the life of Stella, the sheltered, cauti…
1 year, 11 months ago
In 'The White Bonus,' Tracie McMillan analyzes the monetary cost of racism
Racism is a major contributor to economic disparities in the U.S. – but in her new book, The White Bonus, writer Tracie McMillan crunches the numbers…
1 year, 11 months ago
'The Alternatives' is a novel about grief, sisterhood and working women
Caoilinn Hughes' novel The Alternatives revolves around the four Flattery sisters, each with a more impressive career or degree than the last, all wi…
1 year, 11 months ago
Brittney Griner's memoir recounts her detention in Russia and finally 'Coming Home'
In 2022, WNBA star Brittney Griner was detained by Russian authorities, convicted of drug charges and given a nine-year prison sentence. Her new memo…
1 year, 11 months ago
'Lessons for Survival' thinks about parenting through social and environmental crises
As a parent, how do you navigate – and feel hope – raising kids through a pandemic, a climate crisis and with police brutality in the news? That's th…
1 year, 11 months ago