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'Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt' imagines Death next door

NPR | By Elena Burnett,
Scott Detrow, Janaya Williams
Published July 8, 2026 at 2:02 PM MDT

In Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt, author Ben Reeves imagines Death as an ordinary man. He talks with NPR's Scott Detrow about love, loss and what mortality can teach us about living.

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Scott Detrow is a White House correspondent for NPR and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.
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