Andrew Limbong
Andrew Limbong is a reporter for NPR's Arts Desk, where he does pieces on anything remotely related to arts or culture, from streamers looking for mental health on Twitch to Britney Spears' fight over her conservatorship. He's also covered the near collapse of the live music industry during the coronavirus pandemic. He's the host of NPR's Book of the Day podcast and a frequent host on Life Kit.
He started at NPR in 2011 as an intern for All Things Considered, and was a producer and director for Tell Me More.
Originally from Brooklyn and a graduate of SUNY New Paltz, he previously worked at ShopRite.
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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.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel has spent years on high school reading lists. How are literature professors teaching it today? And do students still find it relevant? -
When we worry about the declining rates of literacy and a lack of reading skills, it's often about children. But how often are adults reading these days? And what are we reading? A new NPR/Ipsos poll finds out. -
Organized pressure groups, not individual parents, are leading the fight to remove books from shelves, according to a new report from the American Library Association. -
A famed graphic novelist returns! A Southern-gothic crime-thriller inspired by The Godfather! An extremely in depth biography of Mark Twain! And more! -
Andrew Limbong of the NPR Books team shares the nonfiction books he's most looking forward to reading this spring.
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The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave Monday morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff. -
Movies adapted from books have a reputation for falling short. NPR's Scott Detrow talks with NPR's Barrie Hardymon and Andrew Limbong about what's good and bad about books turned into movies.
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Keith E. Sonderling is the new acting head of The Institute of Museum and Library Services, the main source of federal funding for libraries and museums across the country. President Trump issued an executive order last week saying he aims to close the agency. -
Following his multi-generational, statement-making novel Afterlives, Abdulrazak Gurnah's new book Theft is a quieter, more intimate look at friendship and power.
