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Six Of Some, Half-Dozen Of The Other

10:56am September 17, 2015

A word that has no repeating letters is an "isogram," which itself is an isogram. Confused? If you're a Francophiles or a lycanthrope, you can guess the twelve-letter isograms we're looking for.

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Bureaucracy In Action

10:56am September 17, 2015

"Acting Associate Administrator for Administration for the Maritime Administration" is a fake government job, right? Well, try fitting these titles on a business card, because some are actually real.

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This Old House

10:56am September 17, 2015

All of the answers in this round contain the name of a room, piece of furniture or item that is commonly found in a house. So don't forget your loofa for the bridal shower.

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The Best Piece Of Trivia You Learned This Week: David Bowie Edition

10:56am September 17, 2015

Did David Bowie really invent Connect Four? Or did our listener completely make this up? Find out in the latest edition of The Best Piece of Trivia You Learned This Week.

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Meg Wolitzer: Catnip For 'A Certain Kind Of Reader'

10:56am September 17, 2015

The New York Times bestselling author of The Interestings and Belzhar explains writing for teens and her failed attempt at journaling, plus emerges from an anagram challenge delightfully unscathed.

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'Killing Kind' Is Pure Thriller With A Smart, Vicious Twist

7:03am September 17, 2015

by Jason Heller

Chris Holm's new novel is about an hit man who only targets other hit men. Critic Jason Heller says the book's somewhat outlandish setup results in lean action and breakneck execution.

Comedian's Sept. 11 Lie Revealed

8:14pm September 16, 2015

by Elizabeth Blair

Steve Rannazzisi admits he lied for years about being in the World Trade Center when terrorists attacked it in 2001. A fellow comic, whose firefighter father died that day, accepts the apology.

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Is 007 Losing His Cool? 'Trigger Mortis' Helps Bring Bond Into 21st Century

6:44pm September 16, 2015

by NPR Staff

From Bond's smoking habit to the Pussy Galore storyline, there's a lot about the franchise that doesn't fly anymore. In a new Bond novel, writer Anthony Horowitz gives the spy story a modern edge.

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Ken Chen is the executive director of the Asian American Writers' Workshop in New York.

Why A White Poet Posed As Asian To Get Published, And What's Wrong With That

6:44pm September 16, 2015

by Ken Chen

A white man called Michael Derrick Hudson used the name Yi-Fen Chou as a strategy to get published. Ken Chen of the Asian American Writers' Workshop in New York says the writer wanted to be "special."

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Real-life best friends Emily Mortimer and Dolly Wells star in HBO's Doll & Em, in which fictional versions of themselves try to write an off-Broadway play together.

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Like A 'Hall Of Mirrors,' TV Duo Dance With Selves On Other Side Of Screen

6:43pm September 16, 2015

by NPR Staff

Emily Mortimer and Dolly Wells are best friends and British actresses — who also happen to play best friends and British actresses on TV. In Doll & Em, the meta experiment gets a bit out of hand.

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