During the NewsHour interview, Westover sang a Mormon hymn from her childhood: “Come, Come Ye Saints.” Mormon poet William Clayton wrote the poem in 1846 after learning that one of his wives had given birth to a healthy baby boy. You can also submit your own questions for Nneka Arimah on our Facebook page, which she will answer on the NewsHour broadcast at the end of the month. Here are questions to help guide your discussions as you read the book over the next month. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/now-read-this, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/now-read-this#trick-mirror, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/now-read-this#severance, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/now-read-this#the-poet-x, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/now-read-this#helping-children-succeed, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/now-read-this#beaten-down-worked-up, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/now-read-this#beijing-payback, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/now-read-this#citizen:-an-american-lyric, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/now-read-this#american-spy, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/now-read-this#the-street, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/now-read-this#disappearing-earth, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/now-read-this#inheritance, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/now-read-this#american-prison, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/now-read-this#heart-berries, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/now-read-this#circe, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/now-read-this#the-overstory, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/now-read-this#we-the-corporations, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/now-read-this#conversations-with-friends, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/now-read-this#the-woman-warrior, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/now-read-this#the-house-of-broken-angels, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/now-read-this#the-fifth-season, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/now-read-this#an-odyssey, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/now-read-this#brotopia, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/now-read-this#the-power, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/now-read-this#the-wife, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/now-read-this#heart, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/now-read-this#there-will-be-no-miracles-here, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/now-read-this#a-separation, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/now-read-this#american-wolf, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/now-read-this#earning-the-rockies, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/now-read-this#what-it-means-when-a-man-falls-from-the-sky, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/now-read-this#pachinko, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/now-read-this#less, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/now-read-this#educated, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/now-read-this#the-death-and-life-of-the-great-lakes, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/now-read-this#exit-west, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/now-read-this#killers-of-the-flower-moon, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/now-read-this#sing-unburied-sing, 'Beaten Down, Worked Up' by Steven Greenhouse, 'Citizen: An American Lyric' by Claudia Rankine, 'Conversations with Friends' by Sally Rooney, 'The Woman Warrior' by Maxine Hong Kingston, 'The House of Broken Angels' by Luis Alberto Urrea, 'There Will Be No Miracles Here' by Casey Gerald, 'Earning the Rockies' by Robert D. 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We’re excited to announce that “Earning the Rockies” by Robert D. Kaplan is our September pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club, “Now Read This.”. You had a great 2020. Subscribe to ‘Here's the Deal,’ our politics newsletter. We’re excited to announce our September pick for “Now Read This”. By Elizabeth Acevedo, Helping Children Succeed Author Celeste Ng takes us behind the scenes of the book "The Woman Warrior.". You’ll find more insight on “In Translation” in Acevedo’s annotations. We’re excited to announce that “Pachinko” by Min Jin Lee is our July pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club, “Now Read This.”. In “Helping Children Succeed,” Tough delves into how teachers and caregivers can foster environments where children develop these character traits, and looks at examples of how schools across the United States are working to do so. When Paul Tough first began reporting on the skills that help children succeed both in and out of the classroom, he drew upon an already robust body of research on the subject. “In the beginning, the writing routine sprang from the rhythms and trappings of the office, even as fewer employees showed up and it became deserted,” Ma recently told the PBS NewsHour. Our November book club pick for Now Read This, the PBS NewsHour’s book club with The New York Times, is Elizabeth Acevedo’s “The Poet X”. Our July book club pick for Now Read This, the PBS NewsHour’s book club with The New York Times, is poet Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen: An American Lyric.” It’s a collection of essays, images and poetry that consider how individual and collective expressions of racism add up and play out in our contemporary society. In her words: “The Wife” is a darkly funny, intelligent tale of what happens when you decide to stop sacrificing your own talents in service of your spouse’s success. The quagga mussel is a small but dangerous invasive species in Lake Michigan. “But laced within its dystopian narrative,” she added, “is an encapsulation of a first-generation immigrant’s nostalgia for New York, a place where, as Candace notes, ‘most people have already lived, in some sense, in the public imagination, before they ever arrive.'”. ", The novel that reimagines the story of Circe, a lesser-known and yet much-reviled goddess and witch from the Greek epic poem "The Odyssey.". More than a decade ago now, I started to dream of writing a book set in Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. Then, Mrs. Pteranodon takes Buddy and Tiny to visit Mikey Microraptor, one of … Our August book club pick for Now Read This is Daniel Nieh’s “Beijing Payback”. Ma weaves Candace’s journey through a post-apocalyptic America with flashbacks of her youth spent partly in China, as she reflects on how her late immigrant parents shaped her. Greer shares advice on how he writes (daily), what he reads (poetry, among lots of other things), and how he gets out of a writer’s funk (it can take awhile). Alderman will answer reader questions on the NewsHour broadcast at the end of the month. Chang recommends five books you need to read to understand Silicon Valley right now, from the memoir of a tech icon’s daughter to an exposé of corporate fraud. Phillips shares her writing routine, sources of inspiration, and the process of writing “Disappearing Earth”. He did, choosing a song to match every main character. It’s a novel about belonging and growing up, about bad decisions and human nature, and about how the world doesn’t always fit into the archetypes we’ve seen or read. "I thought I could somehow bridge the two," Ling Ma recently told the PBS NewsHour of her novel "Severance." Ma will answer reader questions about “Severance” at the end of the month. It was nominated for this year's National Book Award for nonfiction. In “The Fifth Season,” the planet is menaced by environmental catastrophe, and its inhabitants struggle to survive. By Lauren Wilkinson, Disappearing Earth Andrew Ross, Rate Consultant of Nebraska Municipal Power Pool, provided an updated cost of service and rate design presentation for the Lamar Utility Board prior to its move into a public hearing for proposed changes to the current electric rate schedule on Tuesday, September 29, 2020. (In 2010, the Supreme Court ruled the government could not keep corporations or unions from spending money to influence elections.). Nate Blakeslee, author of our October pick for the NewsHour-New York Times book club Now Read This, joins Jeffrey Brown to answer questions from readers, plus Jeff announces November’s book. The detentions of Yulia Slutskaya, founder and president of Press Club Belarus, Sergei Olshevsky, the club's director, Alla Sharko, club program director, Sergei Yakupov, Media Academy program director for the club, and Pyotr Slutsky, cameraperson, are new examples of the war that was launched by the regime of Alexander Lukashenko on freedom of speech and independent journalism in Belarus. For Dani Shapiro, finding out that the father who had raised her was not, in fact, her biological dad “was such an impossible thing to learn, in midlife.” The unexpected results. We’re excited to announce that “What it Means When a Man Falls From the Sky” by Lesley Nneka Arimah is our August pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club, “Now Read This.”. It’s packed with volcanoes, geysers and natural wonders – I couldn’t wait to go. 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