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VIRA Broadcasting | The Wedding People by Alison Espach

The Wedding People by Alison Espach

Every wedding has an uninvited guest problem, but rarely is that guest the whole point of the story. Alison Espach’s “The Wedding People” opens with Phoebe Stone checking into Newport, Rhode Island’s grand Cornwall Inn alone, in a green dress and gold heels, for a weekend she never intended to

VIRA Broadcasting | Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

Imagine being illegal before you’ve said your first word. That’s the premise Trevor Noah opens with in “Born a Crime,” a memoir that turns a legal technicality of apartheid South Africa into one of the most disarming coming-of-age stories published this decade. Noah, born to a Black Xhosa mother and

VIRA Broadcasting | Whistler by Ann Patchett

Whistler by Ann Patchett

Some accidents never really end. They just change shape, resurfacing decades later in a museum hallway, a stray comment, a name nobody has said out loud in years. That is the quiet, devastating engine of “Whistler,” Ann Patchett’s latest novel about a family that has spent forty-five years not talking

VIRA Broadcasting | Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

Imagine losing your Wi-Fi, your electricity, and your century, all in the space of a single night’s sleep. That is the premise animating “Yesteryear,” Caro Claire Burke’s darkly funny debut, which drops a modern tradwife influencer into the actual 1800s and dares her to survive her own brand. Natalie Heller

VIRA Broadcasting | The VIRA Briefing — August 23, 2026

The VIRA Briefing — August 23, 2026

VIRA BROADCASTING The VIRA Briefing Sunday, August 23, 2026 Top Story Kennedy Promised ‘Radical Transparency’ and ‘Gold-Standard Science.’ Trump’s Vaccine Order Promotes Neither. RFK Jr. spent his first months at HHS promising two things: radical transparency and gold-standard science. KFF Health News’ latest reporting checks that promise against the executive

VIRA Broadcasting | The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga

The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga

In a genre dominated by listicles and life hacks, “The Courage to Be Disliked” does something almost old-fashioned: it argues its entire philosophy through a single, unbroken conversation between two people in a room, and readers can’t seem to put it down. The book is structured as five nights of

VIRA Broadcasting | The Butcher Legacy: A Dr. Wren Muller Novel by Alaina Urquhart

The Butcher Legacy: A Dr. Wren Muller Novel by Alaina Urquhart

Alaina Urquhart spent years as a mortuary death investigator before she became one half of the hit true-crime podcast “Morbid,” and that background shows up on every page of “The Butcher Legacy,” the third installment in her Dr. Wren Muller series. This is a thriller written by someone who has

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