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The best reads of 2021
As we close the book on 2021, Jeffrey Brown talks to some of NewsHour's literary friends to get their best…
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Joan Didion's nephew reflects on her legacy and inspirations: 'Life was her material'
Jeffrey Brown reflects on the life's work of author and essayist Joan Didion with her nephew, Griffin Dunne. Dunne is…
Hollywood bard, muse and reveler Eve Babitz dies at 78
One of Hollywood's greatest bards, Eve Babitz, has died at age 78. With love and candor, Babitz chronicled the excess…
Anne Rice, who breathed new life into vampires, dies at 80
Anne Rice, the novelist whose lush, best-selling gothic tales, including "Interview With a Vampire," reinvented the blood-drinking immortals as tragic…
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School librarians speak out against recent upsurge in attempts to ban books
Around the country, school librarians are reporting an increasing number of requests from parents and politicians to ban or censor…
Meet Rosalind Franklin, a sidelined figure in the history of DNA science
In "The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA's Double Helix," Dr. Howard…
Author Alice Sebold apologizes to man cleared in 1981 rape
Sebold said Tuesday she was struggling with the role she unwittingly played in a system that sent an innocent man…
Prominent poet Robert Bly, author of 'Iron John', dies at 94
Bly published his first book of poems, "Silence in the Snowy Fields," in 1962. He won the National Book Award…
'Hell of a Book' wins National Book Award for fiction
The winner of this year's National Book Award for fiction is Jason Mott's "Hell of a Book." It's a surreal…
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How this zine creates a skating world 'where everyone feels welcome'
Amelia Bjesse-Puffin was tired of the oppression she was seeing in the world of skating. So, two years ago she…
