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Young Dabin is asked by multiple adults if she sees her self as Korean or American. Dabin Han for NPR hide caption
Tess Gunty attends the 73rd National Book Awards at Cipriani Wall Street on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, in New York. Evan Agostini/Evan Agostini/Invision/AP hide caption
The auction featured a number of items from the office where Joan Didion worked, including two electric typewriters that sold for $5,500 and $6,000, respectively. Jim Zarroli/For NPR hide caption
Writer Joan Didion's possessions sell for eye-popping prices at auction
Children read outdoors at an event organized by the Brooklyn Public Library in New York City in August 1950. Keystone Features/Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption
Former first lady Michelle Obama published her memoir Becoming in November 2018. Chuck Kennedy/NPR hide caption
Michelle Obama on seeing Trump win 2016 election
ALA members Alan Inouye, Barb Macikas, and Sari Feldman march towards the offices of a major publisher, Macmillan, in Manhattan. They carry boxes of petitions addressed to John Sargent, at the time Macmillan's CEO. The petitions protest a controversial policy on e-books in libraries. American Library Association/ALA hide caption
An art installation commemorates the novel Slaughterhouse-Five in the cellar of the former slaughterhouse where author Kurt Vonnegut, then an American prisoner of war, was held in Dresden, Germany. Sean Gallup/Getty Images hide caption
Kurt Vonnegut would have turned 100 today — his war novels are relevant as ever
HarperCollins employees on a one-day strike earlier this summer. Workers have been in negotiations with the company since December 2021. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption
Cover art for Dirt Femme by the artist Tove Lo. Moni Haworth/Mtheory hide caption
Creature: Paintings, Drawings, and Reflections is a new collection of images from artist and writer Shaun Tan's best-known works as well as more than 100 illustrations that have never been seen before. The book also includes essays by the artist. Shaun Tan/Levine Querido hide caption
Author Colleen Hoover signs her novel, "It Starts with Us." Colleen Hoover hide caption
Author Colleen Hoover went from tending cows to writing bestsellers
Author Cormac McCarthy attends the premiere of "The Road" in New York on Nov. 16, 2009. McCarthy has two novels coming out this fall. Evan Agostini/AP hide caption
After 16 years, author Cormac McCarthy gifts two new novels to readers
Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka holds his book The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida at the Shaw Theatre in London on Oct. 14. On Monday, his novel won the 2022 Booker Prize. Daniel Leal/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The forecast: Still tasty (and terrifying) in 'Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs'
Puppeteer Shoshana Bass created this Baba Yaga puppet, and Maria Pugnetti created the panoramic scroll that makes up the background. Ezra Distler hide caption
GennaRose Nethercott uses folklore to explore a painful, and personal, history
Kate Beaton's new graphic memoir, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, focuses on her time working at the oil sands of Fort McMurray, in Alberta, Canada. Kholood Eid for NPR hide caption
Kate Beaton's new graphic memoir is about the dark type of job you take for money
Erneaux, photographed in 1984, is known for her works that deal with shame, sexism and class. Pierre Guillaud/AFP via Getty Images hide caption