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On a hard-hit street in northeastern Tennessee, houses flooded with about five feet of water, everything inside destroyed. But strangers are showing up to help people clean up their homes.

Eric Puchner's new novel, Dream State, was just named the latest Oprah book club pick. It's about a love triangle that tests the decades-long friendship of two college friends.

The Whiting Foundation marks its 40th year giving literary awards to emerging writers in 2025. The awards have helped launch the careers of many future award-winners, including Colson Whitehead, Alice McDermott and Ocean Vuong.

Just nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Lisa Cohen's biography All We Know: Three Lives follows the stories of three women of the early 20th century. "I wanted to write a book that wasn't just about one great person," Cohen says, "but about a kind of collectivity."

Israeli settlers beat up Hamdan Ballal, one of the Palestinian co-directors of the documentary film No Other Land, in the occupied West Bank, according to witnesses. He was then detained by the Israeli military.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with former Trump National Golf Club employee Victorina Morales and her lawyer, Anibal Romero. They say the golf course knowingly hired undocumented workers and covered it up.

Students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School began the new school year Wednesday. Seventeen students were killed in a mass shooting at the Parkland, Fla., school a little more than six months ago.

The author of The Bonfire of the Vanities and The Right Stuff used to give himself a quota of 10 triple-spaced pages per day. He also experimented with literary techniques in his nonfiction.

Vulnerable House Republican are forcing their leaders to schedule votes on immigration to try to stave off a blue wave in November. But their support for a moderate approach that includes a path to citizenship puts them at odds with President Trump's midterm strategy.