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Colm Toibin is an Irish author whose best selling novel, “Brooklyn” became an Oscar-nominated film. He has written a follow up to the story titled “Long Island.” Before his appearance Monday night at the Kentucky Author Forum, he spoke with LPM’s Bill Burton.

University of Virginia professor John Owen IV is the winner of the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for World Order for his book, "Ecology of Nations: American Democracy in a Fragile World Order."

Care and Feeding chronicles life in the culinary world. All the Other Mothers Hate Me follows a mom turned amateur detective. Plus, Karen Russell's first full-length novel since Swamplandia!

Sebastian Junger will be the guest at the Kentucky Author Forum Feb. 3 at 6 p.m. He'll talk about his book with NPR podcast host, Rachel Martin.

"Lessons from the Foothills: Berea College and its unique role in America" studies the importance of what the school calls its, "eight great commitments."

There are so many great books to look forward to in 2025. But first, you'll want to catch up on these perspective-shifting titles from 2024, exploring art, the afterlife, nuns, nuclear war — and more.

These true stories range from a "meow-moir" of a Siberian cat to an exploration of what U.S. presidents do after the White House. Check out these nonfiction reads recommended by NPR staff and critics.

Bad news: Summer's over. Good news: Fall books are here! We've got a list of 16 titles — fiction and nonfiction — you'll want to look out for.

NPR spoke with Appalachian fiction and nonfiction writers about this moment and how they are building a tapestry of what they know as home.

A Kentucky native author is spearheading an effort to get a Little Free Library installed in every county courthouse in the Commonwealth.