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I'm Supposed to Protect You From All This

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Investigating Complicated Family Myths In 'I'm Supposed To Protect You'

7:00am August 04, 2016

by Annalisa Quinn

Nadja Spiegelman is insightful about the power and malleability of memory in her new memoir, but the book is weighed down by an aggressively artificial poignancy, all ashtrays and meaningful silences.

Actor Bob McGrath has appeared on 45 seasons of Sesame Street.

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C Is For Contract: Longtime Actors In Grown-Up Dispute With 'Sesame Street'

6:16pm August 03, 2016

by Andrew Limbong

Bob McGrath, who has worked on the show since 1969, says he and two other original cast members have been let go. Sesame Workshop is calling it a "misunderstanding."

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"This iconic photograph became one of the most famous images of the 1970s," Jeffrey Toobin says. It shows Patty Hearst standing in front of a Symbionese Liberation Army flag several months after she was kidnapped.

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Whose Side Was She On? 'American Heiress' Revisits Patty Hearst's Kidnapping

4:34pm August 03, 2016

Hearst was abducted in 1974 and then declared allegiance to her captors. Legal expert Jeffrey Toobin does not believe Hearst was brainwashed, but rather, "responded rationally to the circumstances."

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Ali Wong taped Baby Cobra, her stand-up special for Netflix, while 7 1/2 months pregnant.

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Marriage And Motherhood Are A 'Source Of Power,' Says Comic Ali Wong

11:02am August 03, 2016

Wong was 7 1/2 months pregnant when she filmed her first comedy special, Baby Cobra. She says that the birth of her daughter changed her career for the better.

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'I Am Providence' Is A Love/Hate Letter To A Literary Subculture

10:46am August 03, 2016

by Jason Heller

Nick Mamatas takes on the legacy of H.P. Lovecraft — both Lovecraft's notorious racism and sexism, and the zealous fandom that's sprung up around him — with scathing humor in his latest novel.

Blue Monday Vol. 1 By Chynna Clugston-Flores.

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There Could Be No Other Way: 'Blue Monday' Is Back

10:00am August 03, 2016

by Petra Mayer

Chynna Clugston-Flores' cult comic about a music-crazy high-schooler and her mad mod friends is back after more than a decade. It's a largely autobiographical look at teen life in the early '90s.

(Top left) A loaf of bread that Daniel's family ate for their meals while they lived in the ghetto. (Top right) Aiden reads one of Daniel's diary entries. Twin sisters Nicolette and Victoria Dejour, 6, look through a window displaying scenes of Germany wi

At These Museums, Tragedy Is A History Lesson

7:00am August 03, 2016

by Kendra Yoshinaga

How do you explain the toughest parts of history to children? We asked leaders from memorial museums around the U.S. to help us understand the best way to do so.

Illustration of two people standing on a beach, with suitcases in the shape of books.

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Pack These Pages: 7 Professional Booksellers Select Your Summer Reading

5:50pm August 02, 2016

We asked booksellers across the country to share recommendations for books that you can take with you on vacation — or just to the nearest shade tree.

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Detroit Bookseller Picks 3 Nonfiction Books For Your Summer

4:32pm August 02, 2016

Janet Webster Jones recommends Why Grow Up? by Susan Neiman, The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson and A History Of Food In 100 Recipes by William Sitwell.

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'The Fire This Time': A New Generation Of Writers On Race In America

4:32pm August 02, 2016

by NPR Staff

Author Jesmyn Ward invited prominent writers from her generation to pen essays for The Fire This Time. It's a nod to James Baldwin's work of a similar name, which warned of today's racial tension.

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