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Published on the verge of the author's 89th birthday, Doris Lessing's Alfred And Emily is an idiosyncratic combination of personal history, public history and fiction — all about her father and mother.

To get better at anything, you need motivation. But conjuring it up can be tough. Psychologist Emily Balcetis says the key to better motivation is simple — just focus on the finish line.

A new collection of Dickinson's poems — written on envelopes and found after her death — opens a rare porthole into the enigmatic writer's life and art. Literally and figuratively shaped by their unusual medium, the poems in The Gorgeous Nothings invite endless interpretations.

Astronomers once gazed at the night sky and charted the stars using their naked eyes. Astrophysicist Emily Levesque describes how generations of telescopes have unlocked the wonders of the universe.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Alicia DelGallo, a senior editor at USA Today Sports, about the surprise elimination of Germany from the Women's World Cup as Morocco's dream run continues.

Scott Simon talks to musician Emily Wells about her new album, "Regards to the End," which reflects on how lessons learned from the AIDS crisis can be applied to the climate crisis.

Comedy writer Emily Spivey could watch the comedy 9 to 5 a million times. "It really showed me that women are just as hysterical and funny as men," she says.

Blunt discusses playing the iconic nanny in Mary Poppins Returns. Ken Tucker recommends two new Christmas albums. Hedges stars as a teenager in rehab for opioid addiction in Ben is Back.

In San Francisco today, jury selection began in a case that pits two wineries...Gallo and Kendall-Jackson...against each other in an infringement case. Kendall-Jackson says that Gallo is misleading its customers by copying features of its wine. Ancel Martinez of member station KQED in San Francisco reports.

It's been 15 years since acclaimed writer Lorrie Moore has brought out a new short story collection. Bark has some clunkers and some keepers, but critic Maureen Corrigan says it was worth the wait.