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FA: Book Review -Heart the Lover, by Lily King

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Literary Arts Fund

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Cameron Crowe, left, speaks with Gregg Allman in 1973. Neal Preston/Simon & Schuster hide caption

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FA: Cameron Crow

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Green bean and chicken stir-fry is one of the many "vegetable-forward" recipes in Roy Choi's cookbook, The Choi of Cooking: Flavor-Packed, Rule-Breaking Recipes for a Delicious Life, which he co-wrote with Tien Nguyen and Natasha Phan. This dish uses the Sweet Garlic Teriyaki Sauce you can find below. Bobby Fisher hide caption

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'Only God Can Judge Me' explores the life of rapper Tupac Shakur

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A federal judge has ordered books about gender and race be returned to the shelves at school libraries on military bases in Kentucky, Virginia, Italy and Japan. Getty Images hide caption

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Malala Yousafzai is the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize laureate and co-founder of Malala Fund, which advocates for girls' education worldwide. Rinaldo Sata/Simon & Schuster hide caption

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Karine Jean-Pierre gives an interview on her new book "Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines". Bronson Arcuri/NPR hide caption

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Karine Jean-Pierre shares why she no longer identifies as a Democrat in her new book

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Prince Andrew, Virginia Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell at Maxwell's London townhouse in March 2001. The photo, from Giuffre's personal collection, appears in her book Nobody's Girl. Courtesy of Virginia Roberts Giuffre hide caption

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Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre's memoir is for 'all survivors,' collaborator says

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FA: Book Review: After Midnight, by Daphne Du Maurier

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Julian Brave NoiseCat is the author of We Survived the Night. Emily Kassie/Penguin Random House hide caption

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LitBox provides books by local authors directly to readers through a vending machine inside Western Market in Washington, D.C., as seen on Aug. 14. Lauren Woods created LitBox to help DMV writers get noticed. Maansi Srivastava/NPR hide caption

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Culinary historian Michael W. Twitty's new cookbook traces the history and cultural context for each recipe he shares. Maansi Srivastava/NPR hide caption

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A celebration of the South’s rich — and messy — heritage, delivered on a plate

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Is faith the key to good art?

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John T. Edge, at home in Oxford, Miss., has written extensively about the South and its food culture. Now he has turned his pen to his family's own troubled history. Debbie Elliott/NPR hide caption

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In new memoir, John T. Edge explores Southern identity and a troubled family history

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