{"id":71107,"date":"2025-08-15T07:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T07:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/71107\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T07:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T07:52:08","slug":"nprs-book-of-the-day-npr-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/71107\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR&#8217;s Book of the Day : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755244328_717_\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3840x2160+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fbc%2Fa9%2F8f65d7d54909b5ba5908dfa1a92e%2F65233787-f6f7-48a1-b94a-7ce1ef2c2cf9.jpg\" class=\"img\" alt=\"black in blues.jpg\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Mercer University Press\/Ecco<\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s episode, the authors of two recently released nonfiction books search for meaning in art. First, Elizabeth Barks Cox\u2019s Reading Van Gogh: An Amateur\u2019s Search for God chronicles her infatuation with the painter\u2019s writings, especially those on spirituality. In today\u2019s episode, Cox joins Here &amp; Now\u2019s Lisa Mullins for a conversation that touches on the artist\u2019s eye for beauty and despair \u2013 and why the author says she fell \u201ca little bit in love with him.\u201d Then, Harvard professor Imani Perry\u2019s book Black in Blues tells the story of Black history through the color blue. In today\u2019s episode, Perry speaks with Here &amp; Now\u2019s Scott Tong about the many ways blue appears in African American culture, art and literature.<\/p>\n<p>To listen to Book of the Day sponsor-free and support NPR&#8217;s book coverage, sign up for Book of the Day+ at plus.npr.org\/bookoftheday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mercer University Press\/Ecco In today\u2019s episode, the authors of two recently released nonfiction books search for meaning in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[353,49,48,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-71107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}