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Discover your next great read with NPR's Books We Love
Back for its 11th year, Books We Love curates NPR staff and critics' favorite books of the year. You can discover your next great read or find the pe…
2 years, 7 months ago
Jamie Loftus' 'Raw Dog' investigates the social and culinary history of the hot dog
Comedian Jamie Loftus has been eating hot dogs her whole life. But in her new book, Raw Dog, she takes a road trip across the U.S. to discover how th…
2 years, 7 months ago
Henry Winkler and Arnold Schwarzenegger's memoirs open up about the fear of failing
Today's episode features interviews with two giants in pop culture who get very real about the pitfalls in their personal and professional lives. Fir…
2 years, 7 months ago
Max Brooks teaches kids life lessons through the world of 'Minecraft'
The Minecraft trilogy by Max Brooks is about two humans – Guy and Summer – who get trapped in the world of the video game Minecraft and have to find …
2 years, 7 months ago
Curtis Chin's memoir pays homage to his family's Chinese restaurant
There are lots of things Curtis Chin, co-founder of the Asian American Writers' Workshop, learned at his family's Chinese restaurant: how to be curio…
2 years, 7 months ago
'The Liberators' details the lives of Korean-Americans grappling with the war
The debut novel by E.J. Koh is short in length, but extensive in time and place. The Liberators follows several generations of two Korean families, a…
2 years, 7 months ago
Barbra Streisand's memoir looks back on a groundbreaking career
Barbra Streisand spent 15 years working to get her directorial debut, the movie Yentl, made. She writes in her new memoir, My Name is Barbra, that pe…
2 years, 7 months ago
In 'Thicker Than Water,' Kerry Washington processes a family secret
Kerry Washington is well-known for her roles in Scandal, Little Fires Everywhere and Django Unchained. But in her new memoir, she reveals a LOT that …
2 years, 8 months ago
What it's like to write the biographies of Elon Musk and Sam Bankman-Fried
Today's episode is a little different. NPR's David Folkenflik sits down with two writers – Walter Isaacson and Michael Lewis – to ask about their exp…
2 years, 8 months ago
In 'Let Us Descend,' Jesmyn Ward harnesses the spirituality of an enslaved woman
For the first few years that National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward was writing her new novel, Let Us Descend, she says she really struggled to tap i…
2 years, 8 months ago