
The Week's Best Stories From NPR Books
This week: Meg Wolitzer, Charles Frazier, Jo Nesbo, Nafissa Thompson-Spires and James Sexton.Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which have been known to carry the Zika virus, buzz in a laboratory in Cucuta, Colombia. Ricardo Mazalan/AP hide caption
This lady (whom we found here) expresses our feelings on the demise of the Toast. Wikimedia Commons hide caption
David Hepworth's new book, Never A Dull Moment, is out now from Henry Holt & Co. Courtesy of the author hide caption
Terry McMillan accepts the award for outstanding literary work, fiction, for Getting to Happy at the 42nd NAACP Image Awards in 2011 in Los Angeles. Chris Pizzello/AP hide caption
Terry McMillan's Latest: Revisiting Past Loves, Rediscovering Yourself
Author Heidi Durrow gathers with festivalgoers to celebrate Mixed Remixed in 2015. Courtesy of Mixed Remixed hide caption
A fan holds a copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows at a book release party at Scholastic headquarters in New York in 2007. Clark Jones/AP hide caption
Harry Potter Inc. Hopes To Re-Create The Magic, Hogwarts And All, With 'Cursed Child'
Dickinson vividly described flowers and plants in her poetry. Click here to read her poem, "It will be Summer — eventually." Courtesy of the Emily Dickinson Museum hide caption
Never Mind The White Dress, Turns Out Emily Dickinson Had A Green Thumb
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Never Mind The White Dress, Turns Out Emily Dickinson Had A Green Thumb
Jason and Lucie Amundsen on their farm in in Wrenshall, Minn. Katie Cannon hide caption
For decades, Nitza Villapol hosted Cocina al Minuto, a popular cooking show in Cuba. In the decades after Fidel Castro took power, she adapted her cooking, teaching Cubans how to make do without certain ingredients while instructing them in how to use once-eschewed produce and cuts of meat in new ways. Screenshot from YouTube hide caption
Comedian Tig Notaro from the film In A World poses for a portrait during the 2013 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Victoria Will/Invision/AP hide caption
Go Into the Light: DC Comics relaunches its line of superheroes titles again. Still. Some more. DC Comics hide caption