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Judge blocks Penguin Random House-Simon & Schuster merger

A book published by Simon & Schuster is displayed on Sabbatum, July thirty, 2022, in Tigard, Ore. Jenny Kane/AP hibernate caption

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Venture into the 'Fresh Air' crypt for a Halloween horror fest

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Venture into the 'Fresh Air' crypt for a Halloween horror fest

'Goosebumps' is turning 30 — the scariest part is how old that makes you

The Goosebumps serial continues to take its hooks, tentacles, or some other creepy tendrils around fans today. Christopher Gregory-Rivera for NPR hide caption

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'Goosebumps' is turning 30 — the scariest part is how old that makes yous

Gerald Stern, prize-winning and lyrical poet, dies at 97

Gerald Stern speaks to the audience during the National Book Awards in New York Midweek, Nov. xviii, 1998. Stern, ane of the country's almost loved and respected poets who wrote with spirited melancholy and earthly sense of humour about his babyhood, Judaism, mortality and the wonders of the contemplative life, has died. OSAMU HONDA/AP hide explanation

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A doctor's Ebola memoir is all too timely with a new outbreak in Uganda

Dr. Benjamin Black in front of the Gondama Referral Center in Sierra Leone, where he worked during the Ebola outbreak of 2014-2016. The center treated children and women in urgent need of obstetric and gynecological intendance. As the outbreak exploded, the center decided to stop albeit significant women, a decision that still weighs on Black. Courtesy of Benjamin Black hide explanation

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13 books full of thrills and chills for Halloween

Fresh Air's Halloween special, with horror masters Stephen Male monarch and Jordan Peele

Seven things to look for in season 2 of 'House of the Dragon'

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A reporter's memoir of her jail time gets banned in Florida prisons

One journalist's memoir of rehabilitation is existence banned in Florida state prisons. Eric Francis/Getty Images hibernate caption

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An unearthed John Steinbeck column probes the strength of U.S. democracy

John Steinbeck talks to media in the office of his publisher in New York on October. 25, 1962. Anthony Camerano/AP hide caption

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How the cartoonist behind The Addams Family defused fear, with dead-on humor

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How the cartoonist behind The Addams Family defused fear, with dead-on humour

Bono discusses his new memoir, 'Surrender,' and the faith at U2's core

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Bono discusses his new memoir, 'Surrender,' and the faith at U2's cadre

Writer, truck driver, meat cutter and prophet of compassion Mike Davis dies at 76

Scholar Mike Davis was a public intellectual best known for his book Urban center of Quartz and other searing critiques of capitalism, corruption and environmental degradation. Verso hide caption

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3 books in translation that ask a lot — and allow the reader to ask a lot in return

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Fear, Halloween and the real-life horrors of the past

Fear, Halloween and the existent-life horrors of the past

For William Shatner, seeing Earth from space was moving and heartbreaking

Last year, Star Trek's William Shatner boarded Bluish Origin's New Shepard and became the oldest person to wing into space. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide explanation

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For William Shatner, seeing Earth from infinite was moving and heartbreaking

Cormac McCarthy's new books seem to try to encapsulate the human experience

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Their book is banned from dozens of districts, but has helped countless young readers

Writer and LGBTQ activist George M. Johnson sparked chat — and controversy — with their 2020 memoir about growing upwardly Blackness and queer. All Boys Aren't Blue has been banned in dozens of school libraries. Vincent Marc hibernate caption

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Their book is banned from dozens of districts, simply has helped countless young readers

Salman Rushdie has lost sight in one eye and the use of one hand, his agent says

Salman Rushdie is pictured in 2017. Rushdie's agent says the author has lost sight in one eye and the employ of a hand equally he recovers from an assault. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP hide caption

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Author Colleen Hoover went from tending cows to writing bestsellers

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Writer Colleen Hoover went from tending cows to writing bestsellers

The Sioux Chef uses only native ingredients, but isn't 'cooking like it's 1491'

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The Sioux Chef uses simply native ingredients, but isn't 'cooking like it's 1491'

A canine psychologist with a new puppy explores 'how dogs become themselves'

'House of the Dragon' episode 10: Dance, dragons, dance

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