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'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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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