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Karen Russell's first novel, Swamplandia, came out in 2011 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

Russell's celebrated debut novel, Swamplandia, came out in 2011.

Proving Up, which was made into an opera.

The story of the Minute Women is one of many told in a new book by our guest, journalist and historian Clay Risen.

His new book is Red Scare, Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America.

His latest is Red Scare, Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America.

Going back to Hollywood for a moment, there was never a blacklist exactly as you say. But as close as it came was a book called Red Channels, a report of communist influence on radio and television produced by something called the American Business Consultants.

You know, that there wasn't enough to have the attorney general's list of subversive organizations. They wanted, you know, the next step, which was tell me who in this case in Hollywood is suspect. So the book had was, you know, it's like it's just a directory.

i stand accused what's the use of breaking up and Only the Strong Survive which is the title of his memoir which had just been published when we spoke the philadelphia radio dj georgie woods nicknamed butler the iceman because his style and stage presence were so cool butler was born in rural mississippi in 1939 three years later he moved with his family to chicago where he continued to live he became politically active in the city serving on the cook county board of commissioners from 1985 to 1969 hit Only the Strong Survive he co-wrote the song with kenny gamble and leon huff

the black power movement was in vogue, and as a matter of fact, i realized that the song was a hit doing a concert at prairie view college in prairie view, texas. and the kids had kind of adopted the slogan, only to strong survive, as their theme song. and then there were a bunch of soldiers who came back from vietnam who told me that only to strong survive was helpful in seeing them through some very trying times, and they believed that it had helped them to come out of those foxholes.

I always saw movies and I like movies and everything. But like I saw True West with John C. Reilly and Philip Seymour Hoffman in like 99, 2000.

Her book, Dreamtown, Shaker Heights and the quest for racial equity, is an examination of the ideals and realities of racial integration in her hometown of Shaker Heights, Ohio.

He's written several books about the intersection of law, business, and power, including Dark Towers, Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and the Epic Trail of Destruction.

Maureen Corrigan is a professor of literature at Georgetown University. She reviewed Last Scene by Judith Giesberg, who also founded the Last Scene Project website.

She reviewed Last Scene by Judith Giesberg, who also founded the Last Scene Project website.

Now comes Bong's new movie, Mickey 17, an outlandish, otherworldly farce that also paints in broadly satirical strokes. The movie, adapted from a novel by Edward Ashton, begins in the year 2054, on a faraway planet called Niflheim, where a human colony is being established.

His new memoir called Shattered begins in 2020 after a fall that injured his spinal cord, leaving him unable to move his arms or legs.

He spent a year in hospitals before he was able to return home with roundtheclock caregivers. He started writing the memoir just days after the accident by dictating to one of his sons.

I'm really excited about my book, Shattered, coming out in the U.S., for instance.

I haven't published a book in the U.S. for a long time. So I want to read the reviews. I want to read the interviews. I want to find out how the book's doing.

The Wilderness, about the battle over the future of the Republican Party

When slavery ended in 1865, newly freed black Americans began to search for their lost family members. In her new book, Last Scene, historian Judith Giesberg tells some of the stories of people who placed those ads.

Geiesberg says that when she's given public lectures about this online archive of ads, the audience always asks the question, did they find each other? Geiesberg's new book, called Last Scene, is her more detailed response to the question.

In each of the ten chapters here, she closely reads ads placed in search of lost children, mothers, wives, siblings, and even comrades who served in the United States Colored Troops during the Civil War.

Geiesberg tells us the cruel reality was that the success rate of these advertisements may have been as low as 2%, offering readers a portal into the lived experience of slavery rather than happy reunion stories.

Throughout Last Scene, Geiesberg steps back from these individual ads to give readers the larger historical context that made them necessary, reminding that no federal agency existed to help freed people locate loved ones after the Civil War.

The Wilderness, about the battle over the future of the Republican Party

Romney, A Reckoning, a biography of Mitt Romney

His new book is Jesus Wept, Seven Popes and the Battle for the Soul of the Catholic Church.

His new book is Jesus Wept, Seven Popes, and the Battle for the Soul of the Catholic Church.

John Powers reviews a new autobiographical novel by Brigitte Giraud, which looks back at the accident that killed her husband. The book won the French equivalent of the Booker Prize.

In the new autobiographical novel Live Fast, Brigitte Giraud looks back at the accident that killed her husband.

Live Fast looks back at the death of Giraud's husband Claude in a motorcycle accident 20odd years earlier, and ponders the many things that might have prevented this calamity.

He's also the author of the books Hitmakers and On Work, Money, Meaning, Identity.

He's also the author of the books Hitmakers and On Work, Money, Meaning, Identity.

His new book, Abundance, coauthored with Ezra Klein, comes out in March.