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Bonus Episode: "Margery," the medieval memoirist

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Kids' books author Mac Barnett is the new National Ambassador for Young People's Literature Chris Black/Library of Congress hide caption

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What Mac Barnett has planned as the new LOC ambassador for young people's literature

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'Coming to New York' stories are alive and well in these two new books

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Brittany Newell's writing has appeared in The New York Times, Joyland and Playgirl. Shane Thomas/Macmillan hide caption

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A pro dominatrix and novelist says empathy, curiosity and bravery are key to both jobs

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Books vs. Brain Rot: why it's so hard to read

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Secrets feed on time in the masterful novel 'Mothers and Sons'

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Reid Hoffman speaks onstage during The AI Optimist Club at WIRED Celebrates 30th Anniversary on Dec. 5, 2023, in San Francisco. Kimberly White/Getty Images for WIRED hide caption

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LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman discusses his new book 'Superagency' on the future of AI

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Ecco

A new book explains what the color blue can teach us about Black history

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Bookshop.org launches new e-book platform that exculsively supports local bookstores

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'The First State of Being' and 'Chooch Helped' win top children’s book awards

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Sarah Cornell's headstone, Oak Grove Cemetery, Fall River, Mass. Melissa Gray/NPR hide caption

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The Sinners All Bow 

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One man talks to another man on March 8, 2020, through a makeshift barricade wall built to control entry and exit to a residential compound in Wuhan, Hubei, China. ‎/Getty Images‎ hide caption

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The great audiobook playback debate: Do you listen at regular speed or do you crank it up? Angela Hsieh/NPR hide caption

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Is there a right way — or wrong way — to listen to an audio book?

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Author Hajar Yazdiha (left) wrote about Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy in her book, The Struggle for the People's King (right). PR Agency hide caption

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The co-opting of MLK Jr. by...everybody

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New AI licensing platform aims to help authors keep control over their books

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Previously unknown poems show Woolf as a fun aunt. She's pictured above in 1902. George C. Beresford/Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption

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Newly discovered poems show Virginia Woolf as a fun aunt

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Colson Whitehead shares the true story of abuse and injustice behind 'Nickel Boys'

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