Arts

Ghost Island Looms Large Among Displaced Inupiat Eskimos

7:11pm June 21, 2013

by NPR Staff

About 50 years ago, the native Alaskans were forced to leave their ancestral home on King Island, in the Bering Sea. Now, an Anchorage poet has crowdsourced enough money to bring a group of former King Islanders and their descendants back for a visit.

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Calling It 'Metadata' Doesn't Make Surveillance Less Intrusive

2:47pm June 21, 2013

by Geoff Nunberg

Whether it's logs of phone calls or GPS data, commentator Geoff Nunberg says it still says a lot about who you are: "Tell me where you've been and who you've been talking to, and I'll tell you about your politics, your health, your sexual orientation, your finances," he says.

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Books
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Oliver Sacks, Exploring How Hallucinations Happen

2:28pm June 21, 2013

The famed neurologist talks to Fresh Air about how grief, trauma, brain injury, medications and neurological disorders can trigger hallucinations — and about his personal experimentation with hallucinogenic drugs in the 1960s.

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Arts

Triad Arts Weekend: June 21, 2013

11:26am June 21, 2013

by David Ford

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Meet the Artist: Barbara Lister-Sink, Pianist and Educator

12:45am June 21, 2013

by David Ford

Renowned pianist and educator, Barbara Lister-Sink is a world leader in teaching injury preventive-technique.

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In his new book, The Center Holds, Jonathan Alter looks at President Obama's re-election campaign.

'The Center Holds' Sees Victory For Moderates In Obama's Win

2:50pm June 20, 2013

Journalist Jonathan Alter regards the 2012 presidential contest as the most consequential election of recent times. In his new book, Alter argues that President Obama's re-election prevented the country from veering sharply to the right, and he dissects the campaign and the events that led up to it.

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Arts

Nikky Finney Ponders Possibilities Of The Poetry Profession

2:25pm June 20, 2013

Nikky Finney won the National Book Award for her poetry collection Head Off & Split in 2011. Two years later, she is on the other side as a judge and the chair of the award panel. As part of TOTN's "Looking Ahead" series, Finney discusses the future of poetry as a profession.

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Actor James Gandolfini speaks at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards in January 2013. He died on June 19.

Arts

Gandolfini Through The Eyes Of Those He Worked With

2:19pm June 20, 2013

The actor who brought mob boss Tony Soprano to life on the HBO drama The Sopranos died Wednesday at age 51. Fresh Air listens back to interviews with his co-stars Edie Falco and Jeff Daniels and Sopranos director David Chase, to hear their thoughts on Gandolfini's prodigious talent.

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