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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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Hindenburg Disaster (Encore)
In the 1920s and 1930s, one of the most cutting-edge and exciting forms of transportation was the zeppelin.
Germany’s Luftschiffbau Zeppelin Company created lighter-than-air airships that transported passengers millions of miles worldwide.
This new form of transportation which seemed to be the future, came to a sudden and dramatic end on one horrific day in 1937 in New Jersey.
Learn more about the Hindenburg Disaster, its cause, and its aftermath on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - e: Euler’s Number
There are an infinite number of numbers, but some numbers are more important than others.
One number, which might just be the most important number, lies hidden in a wide variety of things in the natural world. It can be found in everything from the mathematics of radioactive decay to population growth and even compound interest.
The number even turns out to have a central role in calculus and mathematics's most elegant equation.
Learn more about e, also known as Euler’s Number, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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NPR's Book of the Day - Anne Enright’s ‘The Wren, The Wren’ is a family story about poetry and betrayal
Phil McDaragh is a great Irish poet; he was also a lousy husband and father, abandoning his family to pursue his writing. In Anne Enright's new novel, The Wren, The Wren, three generations of women in the McDaragh family contend with the absent patriarch's complicated legacy. Enright spoke with NPR's Scott Simon about writing fiction about a great writer, and how the poet's bad behavior in his personal life impacts the McDaragh women's own passions, years down the road.
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Read Me a Poem - “Stages” by Hermann Hesse
Amanda Holmes reads Hermann Hesse’s “Stages,” translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. 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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Everything Everywhere Daily - Spirits and Liqueurs
Thousands of years ago, the first humans accidentally created the first beer and wine. This occurred naturally when yeast in the air converted sugars into alcohol.
However, it wasn’t until thousands of years later that new techniques were developed to process those beverages, but even then, the products they created weren’t designed for consumption.
Eventually, these techniques were perfected to a point where they could be consumed, and they resulted in entirely new categories of beverages.
Learn more about Spirits and Liqueurs, what the difference is, and the various types on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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NPR's Book of the Day - In ‘The Fraud,’ Zadie Smith takes on historical fiction and the Tichborne case
In the 19th century, a butcher living in Australia claimed to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. The Tichborne trial, which sparked much controversy and even more attention in Victorian England, is at the center of Zadie Smith's new novel, The Fraud. In today's episode, the author tells NPR's Mary Louise Kelly how she became captivated by the outrageous lies the man told in court, and how the way his believers still dug their heels and supported him echoes the state of politics in the 21st century.
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