Previews of Hunter Biden’s memoir 

Posted on 04/05/2021 at 01:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Hunter Biden’s memoir, Beautiful Things, comes out tomorrow, and both the book and the author are making the media rounds....

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Tagged As: Author interview, Memoir, NPR, Politics

Senator Tammy Duckworth releases a memoir

Posted on 03/30/2021 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

As her interviewer put it, a fictional version of US Senator Tammy Duckworth’s life might be derided as unrealistic. For...

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Tagged As: Author interview, Memoir, NPR, Politics

Have you read “Firekeeper's Daughter” yet?

Posted on 03/24/2021 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Move over, Delia Owens — there’s a new later-to-publishing author whose debut novel is building serious momentum. (Again, we kid;...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Author interview, Book reviews, NPR, The Passive Voice, TV adaptation

Read or listen to an excerpt from "This Is the Voice"

Posted on 03/19/2021 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Author John Colapinto’s examination of a vocal injury and exploration of how human speech actually works came out earlier this...

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Tagged As: Author interview, Excerpt, Memoir, Nonfiction, NPR, The Guardian

New book explores Mississippi as a literary powerhouse

Posted on 03/17/2021 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

As residents of Iowa, we’re keenly aware that small states can have outsized impacts on larger issues. The same phenomenon...

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg's final book is out

Posted on 03/16/2021 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Yesterday would have been Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s eighty-eighth birthday, had she not passed away last fall. But today is her...

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Brooklyn Public Library's Tibetan story time shines online

Posted on 03/04/2021 at 02:18 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Many of us have found ourselves thinking back to this time a full year ago, when it became apparent that...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: coronavirus / COVID-19, Libraries, NPR

Read excerpts from "Klara and the Sun"

Posted on 02/23/2021 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Can’t wait to get your hands on Kazuo Ishiguro’s latest work? Good news: he has released a few different excerpts...

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The lessons of "The Tale Of The Mandarin Duck" by Bette Midler

Posted on 02/18/2021 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Ready for another inspirational children’s book about a newsworthy bird? Award-winning entertainer Bette Midler has delivered it: The Tale Of...

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Tagged As: Author interview, Children's literature, NPR, Pop culture

New book shares lessons about policing from a volunteer officer

Posted on 02/17/2021 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

We’re willing to bet that few people have matched the kind of research that Rosa Brooks did for her new...

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