NPR's Book of the Day
In need of a good read? Or just want to keep up with the books everyone's talking about? NPR's Book of the Day gives you today's very best writing in a snackable, skimmable, pocket-sized podcast. Whether you're looking to engage with the big questions of our times β or temporarily escape from them β we've got an author who will speak to you, all genres, mood and writing styles included. Catch today's great books in 15 minutes or less.
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- In need of a good read? Or just want to keep up with the books everyone's talking about? NPR's Book of the Day gives you today's very best writing in a snackable, skimmable, pocket-sized podcast. Whether you're looking to engage with the big questions of our times β or temporarily escape from them β we've got an author who will speak to you, all genres, mood and writing styles included. Catch today's great books in 15 minutes or less.
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- 2025-01-20 17:44
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- 2025-01-20 08:00
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Episodes
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| 2025-01-20 |
Amanda Gorman's 'Girls on the Rise' makes the case that girls are stronger together Amanda Gorman became the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history when she performed at President Joe Biden's inauguration in 2021. Her poetry often deals with topics like gender, race and politics. She continues to explore these themes in a new picture... |
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| 2025-01-17 |
In new memoir, Brooke Shields talks aging, beauty and an unwanted medical procedure Brooke Shields started in Hollywood at just 11-years-old, starring in films like Pretty Baby and The Blue Lagoon. From that young age, the actress and model was sexualized on and off screen β and decades later, she's out with a memoir that reflects on ... |
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| 2025-01-16 |
In 'Welcome to Pawnee,' Jim O'Heir reflects on his time on 'Parks and Recreation' Parks and Recreation changed the trajectory of actor Jim O'Heir's career. He landed a small part as Jerry Gergich on the NBC sitcom, ultimately becoming a series regular. Now, 10 years after the show wrapped, O'Heir is out with a memoir, Welcome to Paw... |
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| 2025-01-15 |
Kate Kennedy's 'Cello' is part memoir, part musical detective story A new book from writer, BBC broadcaster and cellist Kate Kennedy tackles the stories of four cellists connected by a mutual musical obsession. Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound focuses on musicians like Lise Cristiani, the first female professi... |
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| 2025-01-14 |
'The Rest Is Memory' is a novel inspired by photos taken at Auschwitz About 10 years ago, author Lily Tuck was reading obituaries in The New York Times when she came across photos of CzesΕawa Kwoka, a young prisoner at Auschwitz concentration camp. Tuck didn't know much about Kwoka besides her name and age, but decided t... |
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| 2025-01-13 |
Mark Lilla's new book explores the psychology and consequences of willful ignorance Author Mark Lilla is professor of humanities at Columbia University specializing in intellectual history. His new book, Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know, examines the tendencies for willful ignorance in human nature and the correlations of t... |
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| 2025-01-10 |
'No Place to Bury the Dead', 'The Hunter' ask what lengths you'll go for others Two novels explore the way that violence and loss can ripple across a village, town β or even entire countries. First, in Karina Sainz Borgo's No Place to Bury the Dead, a plague that causes amnesia runs rampant across an unnamed Latin American country... |
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| 2025-01-09 | We've moved past the shortest day of the year β Dec. 21 β and, now, the days are getting longer. For more than 40 years, people have read and performed Susan Cooper's poem "The Shortest Day" to commemorate the winter solstice. In 2019, that poem was tu... | |
| 2025-01-08 |
'Small Things Like These' draws from the true story of Ireland's Magdalene Laundries Small Things Like These is a novella by Claire Keegan that centers around Bill Furlong, an Irish coal merchant who discovers exploitation at a local convent. The story is based on the real-life history of the Magdalene Laundries, workhouses where Irish... |
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| 2025-01-07 |
A new book examines millennial nostalgia and the economic consequences of Y2K Twenty-five years into the new millennium, Y2K aesthetics and millennial nostalgia are still alive and well in Colette Shade's new book, Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was), where she examines the impact of the er... |