NPR's Book of the Day - Two collections of horror stories modernize the genre

Spooky season is year-round, and so are our episodes about scary stories. First up, NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Jeanette Winterson about The Night Side of the River, a collection of ghost stories that weaves in the liminal spaces — Metaverses, one might say — created through technology to coexist with the dead. Then, NPR's Juana Summers asks Desiree Evans and Saraciea Fennell about The Black Girl Survives in This One, an anthology of horror stories by Black writers that contend with the genre's relationship to race.


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Pod Save America - So You Think You Can Be a Trump Juror?

Jon talks to Alex Garland, writer and director of the hit movie 'Civil War,' about why he wanted to make a blockbuster about the demise of American democracy. Plus, Jon and Dan talk about the 12 jurors who have officially been seated in Trump's hush-money trial, MAGA Mike Johnson’s gamble on foreign aid for Ukraine and Kari Lake encouraging her supporters to strap on a Glock as Arizona becomes a central battleground of the 2024 election.

 

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The Indicator from Planet Money - Inside the epic fight over new banking regulations

After the financial crisis of 2008, regulators around the world agreed banks should have more of a cushion to weather hard times. Now, U.S. regulators are once again looking to update minimum capital requirements through a set of proposals called Basel III Endgame. Today, on the show, a blow-by-blow account of this battle between bankers and regulators.

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Bad Faith - Episode 364 – Pro-Israel “Safetyism” Attack Threatens College Speech (w/ Natasha Lennard)

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Intercept columnist and New School professor Natasha Lennard weighs in on the campus battle over pro-Palestine speech and how claims of feeling "unsafe" by pro-Israel students are being used to ban calls for Palestinian liberation. Is the left simply reaping what it has sown in making arguments about speech-related violence on campus? Or are there ways to distinguish real from imagined harms?

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Everything Everywhere Daily - A Brief History of Belgium

Located in Northern Europe, along the Atlantic coast, is the relatively small nation of Belgium. 

Belgium is like other countries in most ways, but its history and founding are very different from those of its neighbors. 

How it was founded had important implications for all over Europe and may still impact the country's future. 

Learn more about the history of Belgium, how and why it was formed, and what its future may hold on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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the memory palace - Episode 216: Awake

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  • A synth stab from As if it Would Have a Universal and Memorable Ending by Shane Carruth's score to his film, Upstream Color, a movie I love deeply. 
  • Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by the Platters
  • The Girl Who was Frightened of Ashtrays by Charlie Megira
  • Sambolero by Luiz Bonfa. 
  • Water by So Percussion
  • Divertimiento Fur Tenorsaxophon Und Kleines Ensemble (Part 4) from Carl Oesterhelt and Johannes Ender.
  • Ball by Duval Timothy
  • Piece 3 by the great Warren Ellis.
  • Chora tua Tristeza from Lalo Schiffrin
  • Growing Up from Ben Sollee's score to Maidentrip
  • (Vibraphone, Marimbaphone, Malletted Wood, Two Synthesizers) and (Two Bells) by Josiah Steinbrick
  • Main et lee from Michel Portal

NPR's Book of the Day - ‘The Anxious Generation’ analyzes the harmful effects of growing up online

While screens have become a totally normalized part of kids' development today, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt argues that the negative effects might outweigh the benefits. His new book, The Anxious Generation, details the correlation between an increasingly online social life and rising mental health concerns amongst young people. In today's episode, NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Haidt about how boys and girls experience socialization on the Internet, and how some of these behaviors might be curbed to get kids playing offline.

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