Andrew Limbong
Stories
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Teaching 'The Great Gatsby' 100 years after it was published
The Great Gatsby published 100 years ago on April 10 and was a staple in high school curriculums. We look at how it's being taught in classrooms, in light of present day events, all these years later.
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Most Americans want to read more books. We just don't.
When we worry about the declining rates of literacy and a lack of reading skills, it's often about children. But how often are adults reading these days? And what are we reading? A new NPR/Ipsos poll finds out.
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'All Boys Aren't Blue' tops the ALA's list of most challenged books
Organized pressure groups, not individual parents, are leading the fight to remove books from shelves, according to a new report from the American Library Association.
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Here are some of the nonfiction books we're looking forward to reading this spring
Andrew Limbong of the NPR Books team shares the nonfiction books he's most looking forward to reading this spring.
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Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave
The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.
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Fact check: The book's always better than the movie
Movies adapted from books have a reputation for falling short. NPR's Scott Detrow talks with NPR's Barrie Hardymon and Andrew Limbong about what's good and bad about books turned into movies.
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Federal agency responsible for library and museum funding gets a visit from DOGE
Keith E. Sonderling is the new acting head of The Institute of Museum and Library Services, the main source of federal funding for libraries and museums across the country. President Trump issued an executive order last week saying he aims to close the agency.
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Nobel Prize-winning author takes on 'everyday, ordinary' things in new novel
Author Abdulrazak Gurnah was a surprise winner of the Nobel prize for his multigenerational saga of displacement and loss during the colonization of East Africa called Afterlives. He's back with a new book – Theft – that has a tighter focus – on a group coming of age in Tanzania in the early 2000s.
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Trump wants to get rid of pennies. We go to a coin shop to examine their value
With the news that President Trump wants to get rid of the penny, we stopped by one coin collecting shop to find out their reaction.
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The authors of two new memoirs discuss the emotional toll of sharing your trauma
Two new memoirs, How to Sell Out and Trauma Plot wrestle with the question — is it worth it to mine the worst parts of your life for a book? Authors Chad Sanders and Jamie Hood talk about how they tally up the emotional costs of memoir-writing.
