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Book Review: 'Hot Dog Taste Test,' by Lisa Hanawalt.

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Hot Dogs Against Conformity In 'Taste Test'

2:48pm June 21, 2016

by Etelka Lehoczky

If you're the kind of person who'd wear a hot dog costume to a princess party, you'll love Lisa Hanawalt's lushly illustrated, off-the-wall diary/food meditation/travelogue Hot Dog Taste Test.

Anti-Brexit supporters dressed as bananas protest outside a racecourse in York, England. "It is absolutely crazy that the EU is telling us what shape our bananas have got to be," says Brexit's foremost cheerleader, Boris Johnson, the former mayor of Londo

Bendy Bananas And Barmaid Bosoms: The U.K.'s Crazy Anti-EU Food Myths

2:46pm June 21, 2016

by Nina Martyris

British tabloids have long exploited the U.K.'s ambivalent ties to the European Union with exaggerated, funny and often unfounded stories about regulations aiming to undo English food culture.

Forgotten History: How The New England Colonists Embraced The Slave Trade

1:20pm June 21, 2016

American slavery predates the founding of the United States. Wendy Warren, author of New England Bound, says the early colonists imported African slaves and enslaved and exported Native Americans.

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Terry McMillan accepts the award for outstanding literary work, fiction, for "Getting to Happy" at the 42nd NAACP Image Awards on Friday, March 4, 2011, in Los Angeles.

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Terry McMillan's Latest: Revisiting Past Loves, Rediscovering Yourself

12:01pm June 21, 2016

by Karen Grigsby Bates

In her new novel, I Almost Forgot About You, McMillan's heroine confronts midlife malaise by reconnecting with men from her past.

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Fizzy 'Vinegar Girl' Tames Shrewishness To Sparkle

7:00am June 21, 2016

by Heller McAlpin

Anne Tyler's latest is part of a series of Shakespeare plays-turned-novels; she's turned The Taming of the Shrew into a modern screwball comedy about an absent-minded scientist and his daughters.

Cover detail of What a Fish Knows, by Jonathan Balcombe

Fish Have Feelings, Too: The Inner Lives Of Our 'Underwater Cousins'

5:57pm June 20, 2016

Jonathan Balcombe, author of What A Fish Knows, says that fish have a conscious awareness — or "sentience" — that allows them to experience pain, recognize individual humans and have memory.

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Author Heidi Durrow gathers with festivalgoers to celebrate Mixed Remixed in 2015.

A Festival For Mixed-Race Storytellers — And Everyone Else, Too

5:39pm June 20, 2016

by Leah Donnella

The Mixed Remixed festival isn't just for folks who are multiracial. It's about connecting people from all over the world who aren't always seen as belonging together.

Ellie Kemper plays a woman who was abducted and forced to spend 15 years living in an underground bunker before being rescued in the Netflix series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Kemper is also known for her role as Erin, the cheerful receptionist on the NBC

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For Ellie Kemper, Kimmy Schmidt Is Just Her Latest 'Weirdo' Role

3:45pm June 20, 2016

"I still am not sure what in my face screams 'bunker-cult victim,' " Kemper says. The actress plays a woman who was rescued from an apocalyptic cult in the Netflix series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

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Law student Everett consults with Rae Tutera on his suit for job interviews in HBO's new documentary, Suited.

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HBO's 'Suited' And The Search For The Perfect Fit

9:33am June 20, 2016

by Linda Holmes

A new documentary follows the clients of a custom suiting shop that works with clients who are transgender or gender-nonconforming.

The Familiar, Volume 3: Honeysuckle & Pain

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'The Familiar Vol. 3' Will Rewire Your Brain

12:42pm June 19, 2016

by Jason Sheehan

Mark Z. Danielewski's proposed 27-part saga about a girl and her very strange cat rolls on in Volume 3, Honeysuckle and Pain — in which all the different voices and stories start to find a groove.