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'Small Things Like These' draws from the true story of Ireland's Magdalene Laundries | Book of the Day
4+ day, 14+ hour ago (140+ words) WKNO FM 'Small Things Like These' draws from the true story of Ireland's Magdalene Laundries | Book of the Day Small Things Like These is a novella by Claire Keegan that centers around Bill Furlong, an Irish coal merchant who discovers…...
'King: A Life' and 'A Day in the Life of Abed Salama' are Pulitzer Prize winners | Book of the Day
2+ week, 4+ day ago (225+ words) WKNO FM 'King: A Life' and 'A Day in the Life of Abed Salama' are Pulitzer Prize winners | Book of the Day Today, we revisit conversations with two 2024 Pulitzer Prize-winning authors. First, King: A Life, the biography by Jonathan Eig,…...
Falling in Love in a Time of Colonization | Code Switch
3+ mon, 1+ day ago (177+ words) This week Code Switch digs into The Ministry of Time, a new book that author Kailene Bradley describes as a "romance about imperialism." It focuses on real-life Victorian explorer Graham Gore, who died on a doomed Arctic expedition in 1847. But…...