Category: DailyShorts

Our books today give the reader a peek into showbiz. Sarah Polley was a child actor but that led to her being put into many dangerous situations, which she details in her new memoir, Run Toward The Danger. She told NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer that she's not sure kids should be acting in a professional environment at all. Next, Isaac Butler deep dives into method acting in his new book The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act. Butler told NPR's Scott Simon that method acting can create some beautiful performances but it's not an excuse to be terrible.

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In 1788, the son of the leader of the Confederation of Futa Jallon in West Africa was commanding his 2,000 troops against a neighboring military force and was captured. 

He was sold into slavery and spent the next 40 years of his living as a slave in Mississippi. That was until a chance meeting discovered his true identity, which eventually lead to his freedom and the involvement of the President of the United States. 

Learn more about Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori, the prince who became a slave, who became an issue in a presidential election, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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At the center of author Naima Coster's novel What's Mine & Yours are two struggling mothers. Jade is a Black single mother who is trying to provide a better life for her son, and Lacey May is a white mother who is trying to give her daughters the life she never had. Their stories will intertwine over decades, starting with when Lacey May opposes the integration of her daughters' school – the same school Jade is trying to get her son into. Coster told NPR's Audie Cornish that fiction gives us a window into other people's lives but that does not mean we have to condone their actions.

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History is full of battles and conflicts. Most of them are forgotten over time as they don’t really impact history. Whether one king or another wins a battle usually doesn’t matter in the big scheme of things.

However, there are moments that truly change world history. When civilizations clash and the outcome can affect the world for centuries. 

Such a moment occurred on May 29, 1453.

Learn more about the Fall of Constantinople and what it meant to history, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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Somali British poet Warsan Shire has had many projects, including running a popular Tumblr page and collaborating with Beyoncé. Now, she is out with a new collection of poems called Bless The Daughter Raised By A Voice In Her Head. That title is an ode to how she was raised, having to take on a lot of responsibility from a young age. But Shire told NPR's Sarah McCammon that it's also an ode to the children who are able to turn those voices into their friends instead of struggling with them as she has.

From Wondery, the hit podcast WeCrashed is now an Apple TV Plus series about WeWork: a company that promised a utopia, but delivered a catastrophe. Hosted by David Brown of the hit podcast Business Wars, WeCrashed: The Director’s Cut is a refreshed six-part series about the meteoric rise and swift fall of WeWork, including new details about Adam’s wife, Rebecca Neumann, and her involvement in the company. Tune in after each AppleTV Plus episode to the WeCrashed podcast for special bonus episodes hosted by Scott Galloway, one of WeWork’s earliest critics, as he goes behind the scenes of the new Apple TV+ series of the same name, starring Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway. Follow WeCrashed on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, or wherever you’re listening right now. You can also listen ad-free when you subscribe to Wondery Plus in Apple Podcasts or the Wondery App.

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2,046 years ago one of the most notorious political assassinations in world history took place. 

Julius Caesar, the dictator for life of the Roman Republic, was killed by a group of Senators just before a session of the senate was to start. The murder famously took place on the Ides of March.

Learn more about the assassination of Julius Caesar, why it happened, and what exactly is the Ides of March, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. 

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Author NoViolet Bulawayo's new novel Glory is quite openly based on Orwell's Animal Farm and the 2017 coup in Zimbabwe that ousted then president Robert Mugabe. Horses rule the country, dogs are the military, cows, goats, sheep, and pigs are the everyday people. The government that has been in control of the country Jidada for 40 years has fallen to rebellion. But, as these things go, it quickly turns sour. Bulawayo told NPR's Scott Simon that "it is simply an issue of the leadership kind of forgetting [...] why the people they – that fought to serve – made the sacrifice that they did."

John J. Miller is joined by C. J. Box to discuss his new book, 'Shadows Reel.'