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Four years after COVID lockdowns began, two new books explore how 2020 changed us all. NPR's Michel Martin talks to writers Eric Klinenberg and Dr. Cornelia Griggs about their reflections.
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After her father died when she was 24, Catherine Coldstream entered a Carmelite monastery where she lived a life of prayer and obedience for 12 years. Her new memoir is Cloistered: My Years as a Nun.
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NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Jennine Capó Crucet about her new book, Say Hello to My Little Friend and how she drew inspiration from Scarface, Miami and the Seaquarium's killer whale, Lolita.
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In 2018, Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her when they were in high school. Her new memoir is One Way Back.
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In an interview with NPR, Ford says it was only a couple of years ago that she felt ready to revisit how her life was upended by Brett Kavanaugh's rise to a position on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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How did the soda giant from America come to be seen as "local" in Africa? And what has the impact been on the continent for worse and for better?
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Sarah McCammon, NPR National Political Correspondent, about her religious upbringing and new book, "The Exvangelicals."
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NPR's Scott Simon talks with Charles Spencer, historian and Princess Diana's brother, about his memoir, "A Very Private School." It relates disturbing stories about his time in boarding school.
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NPR's Scott Simon asks "The English Patient" author Michael Ondaatje about his new collection of poems, "A Year of Last Things."
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Michael Cecchi-Azzolina has worked in several of New York City's hottest restaurants, where he encountered celebrities, captains of finance and one bonafide mobster. Originally broadcast Dec. 6, 2022.
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