Life Kit: How To Engage With Poetry
For National Poetry Month, NPR's Life Kit team offers some tips to help you better appreciate the art form — and encourages listeners to write their own haikus.
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The Show Must Go Online: Theaters Closed By COVID-19 Get Creative
As venues across the country have shut down in response to the coronavirus, some theaters have made archival videos of the closed productions available online, for the cost of a ticket.
It's 'Alchemy': Alan Zweibel Explains How He Helps 'Funny People Be Funnier'
Zweibel began writing for Borscht Belt comics in 1972, earning $7 per joke. His memoir Laugh Lines chronicles four decades of comedic collaborations with some of the biggest names in the business.
Not My Job: Samin Nosrat Plays Our Game, 'Crosby, Stills, Nash, Acid, Heat'
We've invited the author of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat to play a game called "Crosby, Stills, Nash, Acid, Heat!" Three questions about Woodstock, the famous music festival.
'Meet Me At Midnight' For A Lively Summer Romp
None of us are likely to have a glorious summer this year — but crack open Jessica Pennington's new Meet Me at Midnight and follow the charming enemies-to-lovers story, and you'll get close.
Set 1,500 Years From Now, 'The Last Emperox' Is Still Pretty Timely
In the last installment of Scalzi's Interdependency trilogy, a ruler must fight to save a galactic empire threatened by greed, complacency and the collapse of vital resources. Sound familiar?
In 'Mad, Bad & Dangerous,' Romantic Sleuths Uncover A Byronic Secret
Samira Ahmed's new novel bounces between two timelines, following a Muslim American art student in Paris, and the mysterious harem woman she believes inspired work by Lord Byron and his circle.
Speeches And Songs: Stratford Edition Pt. II
New Yorker cartoonist Emily Flake and her husband John Pastore learn that action is eloquence in this audio game that combines famous Shakespeare scenes with pop songs.
Underestimated
New Yorker cartoonist Emily Flake and her husband John Pastore take a quiz about culinary, literary and cultural underdogs from around the world.
Funky Stuff
Friend-testants Aimee Mann and Michael Penn join Jonathan Coulton in a game that rewrites funk songs to be about things that are funky.