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What Should Offices Look Like In The Time Of COVID-19?

8:44am May 14, 2020

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Nabil Sabet, architect and group director at M Moser Associates, about the ways the design and function of offices will have to change in the time of COVID-19.

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Sesame Street's Grover Helps Kids Adapt To Life During COVID-19 Pandemic

5:14am May 14, 2020

In this time of fear and uncertainty, NPR's Life Kit team partners with Sesame Street's lovable monster, Grover, to answer some of kids' tough questions.

Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City, by Fang Fang

'Wuhan Diary' Brings Account Of China's Coronavirus Outbreak To English Speakers

12:01am May 14, 2020

by Emily Feng

Before COVID-19 engulfed the Chinese city of Wuhan, Fang Fang was already an award-winning novelist. But her chronicle of the lockdown of her hometown might be her most lasting work.

Nick Cordero, here in January on opening night of Rock of Ages in Hollywood, has emerged from a coma during a difficult fight with COVID-19, according to his wife.

Broadway's Nick Cordero Emerges From Coma During Battle With COVID-19

6:25pm May 13, 2020

by Colin Dwyer

The performer had been in a medically induced coma for weeks, and doctors also had to amputate his right leg. Still, this week his wife said she received "just the best news you could hear."

Cease-And-Desist Order Issued Against 1st Concert As Arkansas Reopens

5:56pm May 13, 2020

by Andrew Limbong

Despite announced safety measures, the indoor show planned for Friday would have been in violation of the state's health directives.

Doctor With Rare Disease And No Answers Decides To Find His Own Cure

2:02pm May 13, 2020

by Dave Davies

David Fajgenbaum was diagnosed with Castleman disease as a medical student. In Chasing My Cure, he recounts crowd-sourcing his own treatment with a global network of doctors, scientists and patients.

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'Here We Are': What Would Philip Roth Have Made Of All This?

2:02pm May 13, 2020

by Maureen Corrigan

Benjamin Taylor, one of Roth's closest friends during the last decades of his life, has written a memoir that rekindles Roth's voice: brilliant, profane, and so very funny.

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Can't Leave The House? Try Playing Competitive Video Games

12:35pm May 13, 2020

by Anya Kamenetz

"There's a joke going around that once the quarantine ends, everyone's going to be like a thousand times better," says one college esports competitor.

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Poetry Callout: Write A Poem For Ahmaud Arbery

5:55am May 13, 2020

by Casey Noenickx

Morning Edition is asking for poems reacting to the death of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man shot and killed while jogging in Glynn County, Ga. Create one based on how you feel in this moment.

Olivia Laing, author of Funny Weather, at the Barbican in London in February.

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'Funny Weather' Asks What Art Can Do In A Crisis

4:59am May 13, 2020

by Annalisa Quinn

At her best, Olivia Laing turns criticism into an elevated form of hospitality: Like a good party host, she introduces you to someone, tells you what she likes about them, then leaves you to it.