Showing posts with label NPR Topics: Arts and Culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NPR Topics: Arts and Culture. Show all posts
Sunday, December 12, 2010

"A Wanton Woman: The Life of Ida C. Craddock" from NPR by ALICE GREGORY

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Ida C. Craddock. Don't feel bad if you've never heard of her. Neither had I. But according to her most recent biographer, Leigh Eric...
Saturday, December 11, 2010

Us And Them: The Year's Best Outsider Fiction from NPR by Danielle Evans, Reginald Dwayne Betts

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When I sat down to write this list, I realized that I would need to define what "outsider fiction" was in the first place, a daunt...
Monday, December 6, 2010

Short Takes: Richard Russo On 2010's Best Stories from NPR Topics: Arts & Culture

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Pulitzer-Prize winning author Richard Russo edited this year's compendium of the best short stories. He speaks to Audie Cornish about th...
Tuesday, November 23, 2010

'Lion Of Liberty': Patrick Henry's Fiery Life from NPR Arts & Life by MICHAEL SCHAUB

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It's unfair to reduce Henry's career to excerpts from two speeches, but it's also fitting that he's remembered chiefly for h...
Tuesday, November 9, 2010

"Keith Richards' 'Life': Sex, Drugs And Brown Sugar" from NPR's Arts & Life by MICHAEL SCHAUB

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Rock and roll, by its nature, doesn't have many rules; if it did it wouldn't be rock and roll. It does have, however, an unwritten c...
Thursday, October 28, 2010

"'Bee Season' Author Returns: A 'False Friend' Atones" from NPR's Arts & Life

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Recent headlines remind us of the tragic consequences of bullying. Mean girls have tormented other girls for generations. (Ditto boys.) Myla...
Tuesday, September 14, 2010

'Other People': A Family Portrait Of Depression from NPR by HELLER MCALPIN

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"Every family has a secret and the secret is that it's not like other families," Alan Bennett writes in A Life Like Other Peop...