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Early on in today's interview with author Paul Lynch, he says he was careful not to specify whether his dystopian novel Prophet Song is set in the future. Instead, the gripping tale of an Irish family sticking together through the fall of democracy focuses on the present moment and the personal relationships affected by it. In today's episode, Lynch speaks with NPR's Scott Simon about the power of fiction to break through the noise of news and social media – and the weight of his own platform after winning the Booker Prize.

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January 7, 2024

Everything Everywhere Daily - Trial By Combat (Encore)

In the TV series Game of Thrones, there were four different seasons where disputes were determined with trial by combat.

As fictional as the Game of Thrones universe is, the idea of resolving legal disputes by fighting, sometimes to the death, was historically accurate.

For centuries, trial by combat was a legitimate option for conflict resolution, and according to some theories, it might still technically exist.

Learn more about trial by combat and how it was actually conducted on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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January 6, 2024

Everything Everywhere Daily - Questions and Answers: Volume 14

The month of January was named after the Roman god Janus who had two faces, one on each side of his head.

Janus was the god of waging war and making peace. Of beginnings and endings, and of change and passages.

…and while there is no evidence to prove it, I’m pretty sure that Janus would have been the god of questions and answers.

Stay tuned while I answer listener questions on the 14 questions and answers installment of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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January 5, 2024

Everything Everywhere Daily - An Introduction to the Philippines

Located off the coast of Southeast Asia lies an archipelago of 7,641 islands that constitute the nation of the Philippines.

The Philippines is one of the largest countries in the world by population and has a history and a culture, unlike any other country in Asia.

The process through which the modern nation of the modern nation of the Philippines came to be is a result of its unique history.

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January 5, 2024

NPR's Book of the Day - Novels by Barbara Kingsolver and Daniel Mason excavate history for new meanings

Today's episode is all about two books that find parallels across long stretches of time. First, an interview with Barbara Kingsolver and former NPR host Lulu Garcia-Navarro about Kingsolver's novel Unsheltered, which finds striking similarities between an 18th century "utopian" community and 2016 America. Then, NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Daniel Mason about his novel North Woods, which follows the inhabitants of a plot of land across hundreds of years.

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January 4, 2024

Everything Everywhere Daily - The Legend of Babe Ruth

In 1914, a minor league baseball team in Baltimore, Maryland, signed a young player from the St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys—a school for delinquent boys and orphans.

Unbeknownst to them, the wayward boy would go on to completely transform the game of baseball and become one of the most famous people in American history.

The changes in the sport that he ushered in can still be seen today, and even 100 years later, he is still considered to be the greatest baseball player of all time.

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January 4, 2024

NPR's Book of the Day - ‘The House of Doors’ is a novel about romance, secrecy and colonialism in Malaysia

The new novel by Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors, is a project of historical fiction immersed in the culturally rich island of Penang in the 1920s. A once revered, now flailing British writer arrives to visit a friend and find inspiration for a new book. What he uncovers – secret affairs, a murder trial, and deeply complicated relationships – proves to be more than he expected. In today's episode, NPR's Ari Shapiro asks the author about using the real writer W. Somerset Maugham as his protagonist, and about what writing from the perspective of the Brits reveals about imperialism.

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January 3, 2024

NPR's Book of the Day - In ‘A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens,’ debt takes on many meanings

Hugo Contreras, the protagonist of Raul Palma's new novel, is a babaláwo; he can cleanse evil spirits. Except he doesn't really believe in the whole thing. So when he's able to strike up a deal with a debt collector – get rid of the ghosts in his house in exchange for a clean slate – he assumes he can mostly fake it. In today's episode, Palma joins NPR's Scott Simon to discuss A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens, and how the concept of debt – not just financial, but personal, too – stirs up a lot of trauma for Hugo.

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