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Richard Price
In his first novel in five years, Richard Price he peels apart layers of class and history through the way his characters talk to each other: hipster bartenders who tell people they're really writers, homeboys from housing projects named after the Jewish immigrants who have long left the neighborhood, and cops, cops, cops, circling the streets looking for a collar, disappearing into their cases as their own lives go to ruin. -
Strange Genius:
Tesla + New York
Nikola Tesla arrived in New York City in 1884 with four cents in his pocket and went on to become one of the most revolutionary and controversial scientists of the age. A new book offers a fictional account of his last days and an interactive map explores Tesla’s life in the city during his years of discovery.
Tesla Map
Studio 360: Tesla's New York
Blog: Tesla Author Samantha Hunt
Book excerpt: The Invention of Everything Else
Video: Men + Pigeons
Podcast: Get the complete Tesla narrative
Blog: Tesla Author Samantha Hunt
Samantha Hunt's new novel The Invention of Everything Else pieces together the extraordinary life of scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla. Follow Hunt as she guest blogs for two weeks. She joins Leonard Lopate on Feb 8th to discuss Tesla.
The Sky Isn't Visible from Here
by Felicia Sullivan
A book about secrets and forgiveness, The Sky Isn't Visible from Here is also the story of a young woman unraveling—and then putting her life back together again.
Sick Girl
by Amy Silverstein
Silverstein chronicles her harrowing medical journey through a heart transplant, from early misdiagnosis to ongoing recovery, all amidst a romantic bedside courtship and her drive to become a mother.
Amy Silverstein on The Leonard Lopate Show
House of Happy Endings: A Memoir
by Leslie Garis
House of Happy Endings is Leslie Garis’s mesmerizing, tender, and harrowing account of coming of age in a wildly imaginative, loving, but fatally wounded family.
Leslie Garis on The Leonard Lopate Show
Apollo's Fire
by Jay Inslee and Bracken Hendricks
The co-authors have joined their experience, expertise, and passion for a clean energy future to lay out the path to stop global warming and gain energy independence.
Jay Inslee and Bracken Hendricks on The Leonard Lopate Show
Beyond the Body Farm
by Bill Bass, Jon Jefferson
Witty and engaging, Bass dissects the methods used by homicide investigators every day, leading readers on an extraordinary journey into the high-tech science that it takes to crack a case.
Bill Bass on The Leonard Lopate Show
Talking Hands
By Margalit Fox
Talking Hands offers a fascinating introduction to the signed languages of the world, explaining why they are now furnishing cognitive scientists with long-sought keys to understanding how language works in the mind.
Margalit Fox on The Leonard Lopate Show
Only Connect
By Rudy Crew
Only Connect is a call for not just parents but the entire nation to reconceive our relationship with public education.
Rudy Crew on The Leonard Lopate Show
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