NPR
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First Time Author, Two New Books
Kiese Laymon is a first-time author with two new books out. We have linked to essays by him in the recent past. Both of these essays (“You are the Second Person” and “The Worst of White Folks”) are included in…
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The Muse or the Devil
In a daily feature about “books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly,” NPR’s Two-Way blog linked to our interview with Oliver Sacks about his latest investigation of extraordinary neurology, Hallucinations. Thanks, NPR! We love you back!
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Are High School Students in Any Sort of Abstract Literary Danger?
A recent piece on NPR indicated that, according to recent studies, high school students are more and more frequently reading below their grade level. It explained that the growing popularity of book series like The Hunger Games among teenagers is an indirect…
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Sloane Crosley’s Recommendations For Readers in Transit
Prolific nonfiction author (How Did You Get This Number?), book editor, and columnist Sloane Crosley is in the middle of moving apartments, an arduous process which can lead to all sorts of logistical and organizational problems for the bibliophile in…
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The Weird, Sad, Beautiful Lives of “Wayward Authors”
Writers aren’t exactly known for taking the road more traveled by, and the authors profiled in Andrew Shaffer’s Literary Rogues are no exception. There’s Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s proclivity for opium, Gustave Flaubert’s exhibitionism, and of course, Oscar Wilde’s love that dare…
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Celebrate The Bennet Family’s 200th Year
“Darcy: How odd. I’m strangely attracted to this uncouth woman who shows so little deference!” Want to celebrate the 200th birthday of Pride and Prejudice without actually reading the classic? Check out the very abridged, illustrated version that Jen Sorensen…
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New Music from Thao & The Get Down Stay Down
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down’s new album, We the Common, comes out Feb. 5, and we definitely recommend giving it a listen. Stephen Thompson, in his NPR review, describes Thao’s music as: Quirky but cutting, playful but forceful,…
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Everybody Loves a Good Looking Book
There might be some light at the end of the tunnel for independent bookstores. At NPR Books, Lynn Neary discusses the rising popularity of pretty, hardcover books and their power to be undefied by the monumental e-book. More people are…
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Election 2012: curious what NPR looks like behind the scenes?
Last night, Rumpus contributor Wendy MacNaughton went behind the scenes with NPR to create “live illustrations” of their election coverage. Check out some of Wendy’s NPR illustrations at “Election 2012: What Radio Looks Like.” Below are a few we think…
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Morning Moments
NPR’s Weekend Edition interviews Mary Oliver, Pulitzer-prize winning poet and author of the recently released collection, A Thousand Mornings. “One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear… It mustn’t be fancy. I have the feeling…
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“My American Dream Sounds Like Blackstar”
Teju Cole writes for NPR about how Mos Def and Talib Kweli’s collaborative project Black Star perfectly encapsulates the experience of living in New York: “But, shorn of musical accompaniment, we also recognize that these are the best words in the best…
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The End of the World, and of Sixth Grade
On Fresh Air, Maureen Corrigan reviews The Age of Miracles, a new novel by Karen Thompson Walker about “the slowing” of the world, told by an eleven year old girl, Julia. “Sure, the natural world may be melting, but every bit as…