Her love life was in chaos. The solution? Giving up sex After a bad breakup, writer Melissa Febos decided to abstain from sex and dating for a year. She didn't realize how much it would change her life. She tells her story in a new book, The Dry Season. Marielle Segarra
After Julie's mortifying moment in college, a classmate knew just how to help When Julie Ort was in college, she arrived late to her physics class. Suddenly, she fell over the first row of seats, in front of everyone in the stadium lecture hall.
Wrongly convicted, he became 'The Jailhouse Lawyer' — and helped free himself While serving a life sentence for a murder he was eventually exonerated of committing, Calvin Duncan studied law and helped many wrongfully convicted prisoners. His memoir is The Jailhouse Lawyer. Terry Gross
By land and by sea, these new nonfiction books will carry you away Helen Whybrow's memoir, The Salt Stones, is a closely-observed account of her life as a shepherd. In A Marriage at Sea, Sophie Elmhirst tells the true story of a couple adrift on a rubber raft. Maureen Corrigan
I went on a date with my AI dream guy. Then I cried over shrimp It started as a one-off dinner with a chatbot — a night of shrimp, sarcasm — then veered into something unsettlingly human. Windsor Johnston
Why the latest season of 'Love Island USA' became the internet's obsession Love Island USA Season 7 has drawn outsized attention. Slate magazine culture writer Nadira Goffe says that's because fans have more sway than ever. Claire Murashima
Hungary's oldest library is fighting to save 100,000 books from a beetle infestation Restoration workers are removing about 100,000 handbound books from their shelves and carefully placing them in crates, the start of a disinfection process that aims to kill the tiny beetles. The Associated Press
Liza Tully discusses her new mystery novel and sympathy for 'just okay' assistants Olivia Blunt gets a job of working with a sleuth, but can she keep it? NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Liza Tully about her new mystery, "The World's Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant."
A Denver science museum found its newest fossil by accident... in its own parking lot Denver museum officials found a fossil 750 feet under a parking lot through a 5-inch opening. Ayesha Rascoe
Popcorn buckets are the new frontier in movie branding, and fans are eating it up Blockbuster movie releases are increasingly being paired with expensive pieces of memorabilia: specialty popcorn buckets. But how much are fans willing to pay for these? Turns out, a lot. Ayesha Rascoe
