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How many ****ed up folklore facts do you know? Test your knowledge and take the F*CKED UP FAIRY TALES quiz!
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Joy Harjo appeared on The View to talk about her latest books, including GIRL WARRIOR. Watch the segment now.
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Celebrating Poet Laureate Joy Harjo This Native American Heritage Month | The View
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November 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Join two of America’s most lauded poets, Joy Harjo and Tracy K. Smith, as they discuss their new books with On Being's Krista Tippett in New York on December 4th. Get tickets here:
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Joy Harjo & Tracy K. Smith in Conversation with Krista Tippett
Symphony Space is a performing arts center on the Upper West Side of Manhattan offering theater, film, literature, music, dance and family entertainment. Our mission is to connect art, ideas, and comm...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Did you hear the news? #FairylandMovie is now available to stream. Get excited to read the book AND watch the movie.
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November 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Remembering Ellen Bryant Voigt (1943-2025), poet and educator. She served as the Poet Laureate of Vermont and wrote many celebrated works, including her poetry collection, SHADOW OF HEAVEN, which was shortlisted for the National Book Award.

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October 31, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Check out the latest new releases of October! Some great books are now available in paperback . Plus, explore what's new in history.
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October 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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AI warfare, once the stuff of apocalyptic science fiction, has become a reality. Katrina Manson tells the dramatic story of the secretive decade–long Pentagon campaign to bring AI–powered targeting systems onto the battlefield.

PROJECT MAVEN. Coming soon.
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October 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Excited to stream Netflix's "A House of Dynamite" tomorrow on Netflix? Be prepared. Read up on the geopolitics behind the nuclear arms race in this Lithub excerpt from Serhii Plokhy's new book THE NUCLEAR AGE.
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Inside the International Race to Invent the Atomic Bomb
As Leo Szilard, Albert Einstein, and other refugees from Nazi-controlled Europe lived in fear of a Nazi atomic bomb, German physicists worried increasingly about the possibility of an American bomb…
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October 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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FAIRYLAND author, Alyssia Abbott, sits down with Terry Gross to discuss growing up with her gay dad in pre-AIDS San Francisco and the release of the new film Fairyland.
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Fresh Air for Oct. 17, 2025: 'Fairyland' author Alysia Abbott
Hear the Fresh Air program for Oct 17, 2025
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October 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Ahead of the publication of her collection of essays ATTENTION, Anne Enright talks about male chauvinism, monstrous artists and the authors she loves.

ATTENTION is available for pre-order now and arrives in US bookstores in April 2026.
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Booker-winning novelist Anne Enright: ‘I’m a bit of a scrapper’
Ahead of the publication of her collection of essays, the Irish writer talks about male chauvinism, monstrous artists and the authors she loves
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October 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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The Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation is excited to welcome Keisha Blain to the Parkway Central Library on October 27th. Keisha N. Blain will be discussing her new book WITHOUT FEAR with Timothy Welbeck. Register here:

Register now.
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Keisha N. Blain | Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights
The Author Events Series presents Keisha N. Blain | Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights In Conversation with Timothy Welbeck Even before they were recognized as citizens of the…
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October 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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CIA Thrillers at 92NY: Hear David McCloskey and Elliot Ackerman—with years of experience in the intelligence world between them—in a conversation at the edge of geopolitical power and literature, moderated by Eli Lake.
Oct. 20 at 8:00pm.
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October 17, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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How many ****ed up folklore facts do you know? Test your knowledge and take the F*CKED UP FAIRY TALES quiz!
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October 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Bee Wilson shares the story of her marriage and its end—told in gifts with VOGUE. From THE HEART-SHAPED TIN, on-sale November 4th.
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The End of a Marriage—Explained Through the Gifts That Sustained It
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October 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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In exclusive @people.com article, Joy Harjo reveals her wisdom for weathering the storm which lies in her latest book, GIRL WARRIOR.
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Former Poet Laureate Joy Harjo Reveals Her Wisdom for Weathering Today's 'Perfect Storm' in 'Girl Warrior' (Exclusive)
The poet and author's newest memoir, 'Girl Warrior: On Coming of Age,' was written with Native girls in mind, but the author says it's helpful for anyone in transition, even just from one day to the n...
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October 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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"David McCloskey keeps writing spy thrillers–and the plots keep coming true." NPR selected THE PERSIAN, the latest from David McCloskey, as the book of the day!
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'The Persian' is a spy thriller written by former CIA analyst David McCloskey : NPR's Book of the Day
David McCloskey keeps writing spy thrillers – and the plots keep coming true. In the opening of his latest novel The Persian, Israel has just launched a surprise attack on Iran. But the author says he...
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October 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Get to know GIRL WARRIOR author Joy Harjo with this Q&A for Orion Magazine:
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October 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Congratulations to @rachelcorbett.bsky.social! THE MONSTERS WE MAKE is one of 19 New October Books the Goodreads Editors Can't Wait to Read.
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19 New October Books the Goodreads Editors Can't Wait to Read
Here at Goodreads World Headquarters, we sort through a lot of books each month. Our monthly Readers' Most Anticipated Books feature is exactly that—se...
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October 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Special gifts. Great stories. And economics too!? Can it be true? The Planet Money book is available for preorder.
Why preorders are such a big deal for authors
Special gifts. Great stories. And economics too!? Can it be true? The Planet Money book is available for preorder.
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October 8, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Join Michael Lewis on October 16th at Symphony Space in New York to celebrate the 15th Anniversary of THE BIG SHORT and the release of a brand-new audiobook edition narrated by the author.

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October 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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FAIRYLAND, based on the book by Alyssa Abbott, produced by Sofia Coppola and directed by Andrew Durham, is in theaters now!
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Get in the theatre and watch Fairyland now @Fairyland - Official Film Page
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October 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Congratulations to @murmurshewrote.bsky.social! HOW TO FALL IN LOVE IN A TIME OF UNNAMEABLE DISASTER is the winner of the 2025 Lammy Award for Bisexual Fiction!
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2025 Winners
Congratulations 2025 Lammy Award Winners
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October 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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"An in-depth account of the struggle between the U.S. and China to control TikTok.…gripping….comprehensive….Readers will be riveted." ―Publishers Weekly (starred review)

@ebakerwhite.bsky.social is on tour now for EVERY SCREEN ON THE PLANET.
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October 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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My TikTok book is out in stores today!

Why should you read it? Because 1 in 5 Americans now get their news from this thing. We should all understand how it works.

It was inevitable that strongmen would seek to control a tool this powerful. The book is the story of what happened when they did.
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The rise of the most effective attention-algorithm ever invented, and the superpower struggle to control it.

EVERY SCREEN ON THE PLANET: THE WAR OVER TIKTOK by Emily Baker-White.

In Stores 9.30.25.
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September 30, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Check out this week's new releases! Some exciting new fiction titles along with gripping nonfiction are now available wherever books are sold.
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September 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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"Blistering, daring, and impossible to set aside....McCloskey belongs on the same shelf as le Carré, Silva, and Matthews." ―The Real Book Spy

THE PERSIAN, from former CIA analyst and best-selling author David McCloskey, is in stores now.
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September 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM