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The Stories All Start The Same Way In 'The First Line'

8:11am August 05, 2017

NPR's Scott Simon talks with David LaBounty, co-founder of the literary quarterly The First Line. LaBounty gives readers the first line of a short story, and they continue from there.

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'After On' Sees The End Of The World In A Dating App

7:00am August 05, 2017

by Jason Sheehan

Silicon valley entrepreneur and novelist Rob Reid takes on artificial intelligence — and how it might end the world — in his weird, funny new techno-philosophical thriller After On.

"Hydrant: In the Air," 1963 — "It's significant because it shows us. We were not allowed to go to the public pools. So we opened our hydrant and we cooled ourselves off. But when I saw it and photographed it I made it more than just poor people turning

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What Hiram Maristany Saw Looking Through The Lens At El Barrio

2:31pm August 04, 2017

by Beck Harlan

Photographer Hiram Maristany has spent more than 50 years documenting the Puerto Rican community in New York City's East Harlem neighborhood — through poverty, beauty and gentrification.

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Startup Stories

12:46pm August 04, 2017

Did NASCAR begin as informal races between bootleggers trying to outrun the cops, or did we make that up? See if you can tell if these corporate origin stories are real or manufactured.

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Chipmunk'd

12:46pm August 04, 2017

In this audio quiz, we've changed the voices of famous people to sound like they're one of Dave's famous chipmunks.

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Kerry Bishé: Halt And Catch Science

12:46pm August 04, 2017

Kerry Bishé from "Halt and Catch Fire" shares how, as a self-proclaimed Luddite, she was able to connect with her character, a computer engineer. Then this STEM advocate plays "Two Truths and a Lie."

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