NPR's Book of the Day - In ‘Class’, Stephanie Land fulfills her dream of going to college to become a writer

In the new book Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education, author Stephanie Land juggles single parenthood and going to college. Land is the author of the Netflix miniseries hit Maid, a story where a single mother cleans homes to make ends meet. In today's episode, Land speaks with NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about this next challenge of going to college as a single parent to fulfill her dream of becoming a writer.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - Non-Euclidean Geometry

If anyone has taken some basic mathematics, you are probably familiar with Euclidian Geometry. Euclidean geometry is what most people just call geometry. 

It is the study of shapes like triangles and circles in a simple plane. This type of geometry was developed over 2000 years ago, and it is based on certain set axioms.

However, later mathematicians challenged one of those axioms, and it completely changed how we thought of geometry.

Learn more about non-Euclidian geometry and what it means in this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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Everything Everywhere Daily - Madrid

Every major city in the world has its own unique story. Some cities have an ancient history, and others have a more recent founding.

Madrid, the capital city of Spain, has a history that is unlike any other. 

It went from nothing to being the capital of the world’s largest empire and today is one of the largest cities in Europe. 

Learn more about the history of Madrid, Spain’s capital and largest city, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘Black AF History’ examines American history from the perspective of Black people

Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America re-tells American history from the experiences of Black people. In today's episode, political commentator and author Michael Harriot speaks with Here & Now's Celeste Headlee about how revisiting American history in the context of the Black perspective shows the country's story as one of triumph and survival.

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NPR's Book of the Day - In ‘Pete and Alice in Maine,’ a marriage is tested during pandemic

When author Caitlin Shetterly saw an influx of license plates from Massachusetts and New York arrive in her home state of Maine during the pandemic, inspiration struck for her debut novel. Pete and Alice in Maine follows a couple that moves the family out of New York City during the initial COVID-19 scare — but finds the baggage from Pete's affair and Alice's questions about her purpose follow them. In today's episode, Shetterly speaks with NPR's Scott Simon about the very complicated idea of forgiveness, and how it eludes both of her characters.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - Scurvy (Encore)

When Europeans began sailing the high seas on extended voyages, the most deadly thing they encountered wasn’t enemy navies, starvation, or even shipwrecks. 

It was a painful disease where your body would literally start falling apart, and it killed more than 2,000,000 sailors between the voyage of Columbus to the middle of the 19th century. 

Learn more about scurvy and how it was eventually conquered on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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Read Me a Poem - “The Mist on the Mountain” by Loren Eiseley

Amanda Holmes reads Loren Eiseley’s “The Mist on the Mountain.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.

 

This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.



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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘This Is Salvaged’ explores the mishaps of intimacy and communication

Vauhini Vara started writing some of the stories in This Is Salvaged when she was still in her 20s, two decades ago. From the complicated tension between two sisters to the way one mother chooses to selectively share information with her daughter, the stories in the book focus on the way people — primarily women — can struggle to connect with one another despite their best efforts. In today's episode, Vara tells Here & Now's Deepa Fernandes how time away provided perspective on her characters, and how she uses awkward or uncomfortable situations as jumping off points for her writing.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

On the evening of April 14, 1865, the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, was shot while attending a play in Washington DC.

The assassination wasn’t a random act. It had been planned for weeks, multiple people were involved in the conspiracy, and he was ultimately one of the final casualties of the war. 

The weeks after the assassination saw the greatest outpouring of grief the country had ever experienced and a series of unprecedented trials.

Learn more about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, how it happened, and its aftermath on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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Everything Everywhere Daily - Encyclopedias

Ever since humans began writing down information, there has been a desire to compile all known information into one single source. 

For over two thousand years, people have attempted to compile all of the knowledge of their era and civilization. 

Some of these attempts were little more than lists, and others were mind-bogglingly comprehensive. 

Learn more about the history of encyclopedias and the attempts to compile human knowledge on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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