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National Book Awards Look To Raise Profile ... And It's Not The First Time

2:19pm September 17, 2013

by Lynn Neary

When most people think "NBA," they think of the National Basketball Association. This year, in an attempt to maximize coverage, the National Book Foundation is releasing "long lists" of NBA nominees in different genre categories, one day at a time for a week.

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Kitchen Time Machine: A Culinary Romp Through Soviet History

9:38am September 17, 2013

Author Anya Von Bremzen's new memoir, Mastering The Art of Soviet Cooking, is a tragic-comic history of a family and a nation as seen through the kitchen window. Everything we ate in the Soviet Union was grown ... by the party state," she says. "So, with the food, inevitably, you ingested the ideology."

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SouthEastern Custom Knife Show: Damascus Steel Blades, Engraving, Inlay and More

8:52am September 17, 2013

by Bethany Chafin

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Barnard President: Today's 'Wonder Women' Must Reframe Feminism

4:06pm September 16, 2013

Many think of the feminist movement as a thing of the past, but Debora Spar says the battle isn't won yet. She tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross about the misinterpretation that got us where we are, and the need to improve support and pay for working women.

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Locally Produced "Living in the Overlap" Documentary Tells of Love, Equality

8:32am September 16, 2013

by David Ford

Lennie Gerber and Pearl Berlin have shared a passion for social justice and for each other for 47 years. Today, the indelible spark of their love and commitment inspires many others particularly in the LGBT community as they continue to fight for their right to marry in North Carolina.

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Frank Lloyd Wright, Huntington Hartford Sports Club, 1947. The planned 130-acre hotel development would have been a few blocks off Hollywood Boulevard.

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In Los Angeles, Showcasing A City That Might Have Been

10:52pm September 14, 2013

by Alex Schmidt

A exhibit at L.A's Architecture and Design Museum focuses on eye-popping buildings and structures that were imagined for the City of Angels — but never actually built.

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'The Witness Wore Red': A Polygamist's Wife Finds A New Life

6:15pm September 14, 2013

by NPR Staff

Rebecca Musser was raised in an extremist, polygamist church. She tells the harrowing story of her childhood, her first marriage, and her escape in her autobiography.

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Terry McMillan is the best-selling author of Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back

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McMillan 'Asks' Readers To Empathize With A Family's Problems

11:28am September 14, 2013

by NPR Staff

Terry McMillan, the best-selling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back, tells NPR's Scott Simon that she writes because she wishes she were a magician. She shows off her tricks in Who Asked You?, a novel with many narrators — including a woman named BJ and her husband, children and grandkids.

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Art Spiegelman Reflects On 60 Years Of Pen And Ink

11:28am September 14, 2013

by NPR Staff

Art Spiegelman's new book, Co-Mix: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics, and Scraps, collects comics from a six-decade career, from his early, self-published works to his famous New Yorker covers. Spiegelman tells NPR's Scott Simon he knew in third grade that he wanted to be a cartoonist.

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A Musical 'Train Ride to Perugia', FaithAction International, and Theatre in the Triad

1:27pm September 13, 2013

by David Ford

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