NPR: Books Podcast
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NPR book reviews, news and author interviews -- for people who love to read. The best of Morning Edition, All Things Considered and other award-winning NPR programs.
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NPR Books: July 21, 2008
Mon, Jul 21, 2008
1) Joseph Wambaugh brings experience with police departments and knowledge of the city of Los Angeles to his mystery novels and non-fiction works; 2) Henry Fleming, the protagonist of "The Red Badge of Courage" is the latest subject of the series "In Character" ; 3) Lawyer and author Stephen L. Carter's latest novel is "Palace Council"; 4) A blend of botany, faith, and mythology in Christina Meldrum's debut novel "Madapple"; 5) Kay Ryan, the newly named next U.S. Poet Laureate
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NPR Books: July 17, 2008
Thu, Jul 17, 2008
1) "The Dark Side" by journalist Jane Mayer explores the interrogation techniques used by the US, and treatment received by prisoners of the War on Terror; 2) The Crime in the City series visits the secrets of New Orleans... in the mysteries of author Julie Smith; 3) E. Lynn Harris writes of a straight college football player's celibacy in his new novel "Just Too Good To Be True"; 4) Mystery writer Chelsea Cain can't help but look for dead bodies around Portland, Oregon; 5) Alan Cheuse reviews Paul Goldstein's "A Patent Lie"
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NPR Books: July 14, 2008
Mon, Jul 14, 2008
1) Writer Brad Meltzer says you must read "Replay" by Ken Grimwood; 2) Looking at Boston through the eyes of mystery writer Robert B. Parker, creator of the private eye Spenser; 3) In "The Forger's Spell", Edward Dolnick tells the true story of Han van Meegeren, who created fake works by Vermeer; 4) Mystery writer Sarah Graves sets her "Home Repair is Homicide" series in her adopted town of Eastport, Maine; 5) Cokie Roberts on the power of the founding mothers of the U.S. in "Ladies of Liberty"; 6) Alan Cheuse reviews "Basrayatha: The Story of a City" by Muhammad Khudayyir, all about the Iraqi port city of Basra
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NPR Books: July 10, 2008
Thu, Jul 10, 2008
1) "Goodnight Bush" parodies a classic children's book, with a bitingly political bent; 2) Librarian Nancy Pearl recommends ideal reads for airplane trips; 3) Hamlet is updated and moved to the midwest in David Wroblewski's "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" and Lin Enger's "Undiscovered Country"; 4) Is "The Four-Hour Workweek" possible? Author Timothy Ferris says time is a scarce currency; 5) Three Books on the subject of shipwrecks
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NPR Books: July 7, 2008
Mon, Jul 07, 2008
1) A challenge for amazon's Kindle e-reader: how does it stand up to a visit to a pool? 2) Three Books celebrating independence; 3) "Curse of the Black Gold" examines Nigeria's troubled history with oil exploration and its effects on the country's environment and population; 4) Wordsworth, Coleridge and the birth of the English Romantic Movement; 5) Were Shakespeare's plays actually written by the Earl of Oxford? 6) Summer thrillers reviewed by Alan Cheuse
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NPR Books: July 3, 2008
Thu, Jul 03, 2008
1) Author Jonathan Raban says you must read Evelyn Waugh's "Put Out More Flags" - a comedic novel set in the early days of the second World War ; 2) A duel between rival actors portraying Hamlet leads to "The Shakespeare Riots"; 3) Maureen Corrigan reviews Joseph O'Neill's "Netherland"; 4) "Rome 1960" by David Maraniss looks at the Olympics games that 'changed the world'; 5) Benjamin Wittes looks at "Law and the Long War" - what the role of the courts will and should be in fighting terrorism
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NPR Books: June 30, 2008
Mon, Jun 30, 2008
1) "Three Books" about the Suburban Housewife; 2) Paolo Bacigalupi writes environmentally-themed Sci-Fi short stories in his debut collection "Pump Six"; 3) "Dear American Airlines" by Jonathan Miles stretches a stranded customer's rant to novel length; 4) Jessica Abel and Matt Madden teach the art of creating comics in "Drawing Words & Writing Pictures"; 5)
Ernest Hemingway's son Patrick turns 80
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NPR Books: June 26, 2008
Thu, Jun 26, 2008
1) "The Candy Bombers" by Andrei Cherny tells the story of pilot Hal Halvorsen, who dropped candy for German children in the Berlin Airlift; 2) Chinese fiction writers are using the Internet as a way to reach and entertain their readers - staying away from politics; 3) Rare book detectives try to re-create Thomas Jefferson's library at the Library of Congress; 4) Librarian Loriene Roy recommends books to celebrate Gay Pride month; 5) Author Rivka Galchen's "Atmospheric Disturbances" is a novel of doubles and doppelgangers.
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NPR Books: June 24, 2008
Tue, Jun 24, 2008
1) "Three Books" about weddings, both serious and light-hearted; 2) Ace girl-detective Nancy Drew is the subject of the latest installment of "In Character"; 3) "Laughing Without an Accent", a memoir by Iranian-American author Firoozeh Dumas; 4) A fictional family tree unites gunslingers (Frank and Jesse) with intellectual giants (William and Henry) in "The James Boys" by Richard Liebmann-Smith.
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NPR Books: June 19, 2008
Thu, Jun 19, 2008
1) A roundup of books about the economic influence of China and India with Vishakha Desai, president of the Asia Society; 2) Dartmouth professor Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina recommends the novel "The Street" by Ann Petry, a powerful exploration of race and class published in 1946; 3) "Three Books" for teens who hate to read; 4) For Bloomsday, Scott Huler's "No Man's Lands" retraces the path of Odysseus instead of Leopold Bloom's.
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