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September 28th, 2023

 

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Sheila Johnson, the first Black female billionaire, about her account of surviving an emotionally abusive marriage. Johnson's new memoir is Walk Through Fire.
Posted: September 28, 2023, 9:15 am
Now that Winnie-the-Pooh is in the pubic domain, it's a free-for-all. In Winnie-the-Pooh: The Deforested Edition, the trees have are all gone. The book is by toilet paper company Who Gives A Crap.
Author: Elizabeth Blair
Posted: September 28, 2023, 9:00 am
Part II of NPR's Juana Summers' conversation with actress Kerry Washington about her new memoir, Thicker Than Water.
Author: Karen Zamora
Posted: September 27, 2023, 8:37 pm
Part I of NPR's Juana Summers' conversation with actress Kerry Washington about her new memoir, Thicker Than Water.
Author: Karen Zamora
Posted: September 27, 2023, 8:20 pm
Gov. Gavin Newsom called the new measure "long overdue," saying that the banning binge of diversity materials has to come to an end.
Author: Jonathan Franklin
Posted: September 26, 2023, 8:39 pm
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to C Pam Zhang about her new novel, Land of Milk and Honey.
Author: Linah Mohammad
Posted: September 26, 2023, 8:28 pm
Isle McElroy's novel covers a deep exploration of marriage, love, and the ways we know one another — while also touching on how so much of how we navigate the world depends on how it sees us.
Author: Ilana Masad
Posted: September 26, 2023, 7:07 pm
Environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb says cars are killing animals, while highways cut off them off from their food sources and migration paths. His new book is Crossings.
Author: Terry Gross
Posted: September 26, 2023, 5:17 pm
Set in the near future, C Pam Zhang's atmospheric novel centers on a chef who takes a job at a tech entrepreneur's isolated compound after smog kills most of Earth's plant and animal species.
Author: Maureen Corrigan
Posted: September 26, 2023, 4:02 pm
In a new book, Nobel Prize-winning economist Angus Deaton offers a scathing critique of American politics and economic policy.
Author: Greg Rosalsky
Posted: September 26, 2023, 11:17 am