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Big Books & Bold Ideas with Kerri Miller

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Lydia Millet writes a devotion to the species disappearing from our planet

Lydia Millet writes a devotion to the species disappearing from our planet

Lydia Millet’s “We Loved It All” is a lush lament to the natural world slipping through our fingers and a call to save what we still can.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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The feminists who built America

The feminists who built America

Many of their names are unknown, but early American feminists fought hard for the freedoms that are cornerstones to democracy. This week on Big Books and Bold Ideas, historian Elizabeth Cobbs and our new series, “Big Books, Bold Americans.”
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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Can the fabric of a friendship be rewoven?

Can the fabric of a friendship be rewoven?

In her new novel, “Village Weavers,” author Myriam J. A. Chancy draws on her Haitian roots to share a story about friendship, family and what can stitch us back together after we are ripped apart.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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Kao Kalia Yang channels her mother in the memoir ‘Where Rivers Part’

Kao Kalia Yang channels her mother in the memoir ‘Where Rivers Part’

Hmong author Kao Kalia Yang concludes her family trilogy by sharing her mother’s remarkable story in the new memoir, “Where Rivers Part.”
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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What the deepest ocean reveals and how to save it

What the deepest ocean reveals and how to save it

Journalist Susan Casey descended to some of the deepest parts of the ocean in tiny submersibles while researching her new book, “The Underworld.” What she saw is astounding.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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How memory works

How memory works

Why is music so evocative? Why do some memories stick and others fade? How important is slow-wave sleep to the way memory works? One of the country’s leading neuroscientists joins MPR News host Kerri Miller on Big Books and Bold Ideas this week to talk about why memory isn’t so much who we were as who we are.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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