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books: "The Great Reclamation" by Rachel Heng, and "Getting Out of Saigon" by Ralph White.

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Southeast Asia Focus: New work from Rachel Heng and Ralph White

Lisa Morgan

New stories from Southeast Asia

Bonnie Garmus is a copywriter and creative director who has worked in technology, medicine, and education. She’s an open-water swimmer, a rower, and mother to two pretty amazing daughters. Born in California and most recently from Seattle, she currently lives in London with her husband and her dog, 99. (Garmus photo by Serena Bolton/cover art courtesy Doubleday Books)

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"Lessons in Chemistry": A comic novel about a cheeky '60s feminist

Tom Hall

Writer Bonnie Garmus discusses why her first novel about a smart, self-assured young woman in early 1960s America has become a run-away best seller.

Neil King Jr. is a former national political reporter and editor for the Wall Street Journal. He was deeply involved in the coverage of 9/11 that won the Journal the Pulitzer Prize. He has also written for the New York Times, The Atlantic, and other publications. American Ramble is his first book. A Colorado native, he lives in Washington, D.C (photo credit Mariner/Harper Collins Publishers)

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"American Ramble": Neil King, Jr.'s 300-mile search for self & country

Tom Hall

In his new book, the award-winning journalist chronicles the 26-day walk he took in 2021 from Washington, D.C., to New York City, and how the people and places he encountered changed his perspectives on the world.

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Pandemic Possibilities: “Kunstlers in Paradise” by Cathleen Schine and “The Fun Widow's Book Tour” by Zoe Fishman

Lisa Morgan

Stories from the days of COVID 19 lockdown.

Julie Otsuka is a Guggenheim Fellow and the author of three novels. Her second, "The Buddha in the Attic," won the 2012 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Her new novel, "The Swimmers," won the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Gold Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Born and raised in California, Otsuka now lives in New York City. (photo by Jean-Luc Bertini)

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Julie Otsuka's "The Swimmers": A tale of lost routines, lost memory

Tom Hall

The acclaimed writer discusses her shimmering new novel about life's comforting routines and inescapable losses.

Covers of books by Elizabeth McKenzie: "The Dog of the North" and "The Portable Veblen" (Penguin)

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Elizabeth McKenzie Special

Lisa Morgan

Digging into the back catalog for our Elizabeth McKenzie special.

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Novels About True Crime: “I Have Some Questions For You” by Rebecca Makkai and “More Than You'll Ever Know” by Katie Gutierrez

Lisa Morgan

The enduring allure of true crime stories.

WYPR WR 302 collage.jpg The Last Animal by Ramona Ausubel and The Angel of Rome, by Jess Walter.

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It's the Writing: "The Last Animal" by Ramona Ausubel and "The Angel of Rome" by Jess Walter

Lisa Morgan

Can a sentence be “delicious?” Do the words an author chooses matter as much as the story they seek to tell?

Michelangelo's "Adam's Creation" -- one of the painter's ceiling panels in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel -- depicts the Biblical origin tale, with a bearded male God floating with his cherubim in a billowing cloth whose shape conforms to the anatomical outline of the human brain. New research in the burgeoning field of neuroaesthetics shows that the brain not only creates and perceives art, but is fundamentally transformed by it, suggesting that the arts have enormous healing potential. (image credit Michelangelo via Wikipedia)

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"Your Brain on Art": Exploring the bold new world of neuroaesthetics

Tom Hall

Co-authors Ivy Ross and Susan Magsamen discuss their new book's provocative probe of the physiological and neurological changes we undergo when we experience the arts - and the extraordinary healing potentials of this new science.

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Tough Cookies: "My Nemesis" by Charmaine Craig and "Stone Cold Fox" by Rachel Koller Croft

Lisa Morgan

Hard to forget, but hard to love: stories about tough cookies!