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Author Jo Maeder Talks About Her First Memoir and New Release "Opposite Attacks"

10:56am April 29, 2013

Jo Maeder is the Greensboro-based author of the Kindle Memoir Bestseller When I Married My Mother: A Daughter's Search for What Really Matters—and How She Found It Caring for Mama Jo.

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The Summer of Beer and Whiskey by Edward Achorn.

Hard Hits, Hard Liquor In 'The Summer of Beer and Whiskey'

6:13pm April 27, 2013

by NPR Staff

In the 1880s, it took a German immigrant to change America's pastime forever. Chris Von der Ahe founded the St. Louis Browns and later helped form a new baseball league. Author Edward Achorn recalls baseball's early days in his new book.

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Poet Kazim Ali On Poetry In Everyday Life

3:57pm April 27, 2013

Poet Kazim Ali talks about poetry's importance in every day life for National Poetry Month. He is a contributing editor for AWP Writers Chronicle and founding editor of the small press, Nightboat Books.

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Visitors paid their respects at a makeshift memorial on Boylston Street on April 20, near the scene of the Boston Marathon bombings.

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'Horrific' And 'Surreal': The Words We Use To Bear Witness

3:33pm April 26, 2013

by Geoff Nunberg

After more than a week of gruesome media coverage, linguist Geoff Nunberg takes a close look at the words we use to describe events that mesmerize and horrify, that sensitize and desensitize, that transfix and repel us at the same time.

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Triad Arts Weekend: April 26, 2013

11:56am April 26, 2013

by David Ford

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Once Upon a Blue Ridge Presents "Mr. Lincoln's Office"

9:16am April 26, 2013

by David Ford

Once Upon a Blue Ridge actor Peter Holland brings his original production “Mr. Lincoln's Office” to the Greensboro Historical Museum on Saturday, April 27 at 2:00 and 7:00 PM.

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Presidential Libraries Inspire Design Of George W. Bush Center

2:46am April 26, 2013

On Thursday, the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum is dedicated on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. David Greene talks to former first lady Laura Bush about the library and life after the White House.

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David Sedaris's new book is called Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls.

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'Let's Explore': David Sedaris On His Public Private Life

7:43pm April 25, 2013

The best-selling author and humorist has kept journals for 36 years. Those diaries have been the jumping-off point for the personal essays that appear in his collections, including Me Talk Pretty One Day and now Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls.

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Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner was also a writer and producer on The Sopranos for a time.

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Matthew Weiner On 'Mad Men' And Meaning

1:37pm April 25, 2013

The creator of the acclaimed AMC series talks about his protagonist — Don Draper — as an aging existentialist looking for meaning in a chaotic world. He says the show's sixth season, set in 1968, is situated in that historical moment for a reason: to reflect a traumatic passage in Don's life.

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Spring is Here with John Newman Garden Design

10:25am April 25, 2013

by David Ford

Early spring is still in the air, and for acclaimed garden designer John Newman that means Cornus, Hamamelis , and Thymelaeaceae…that is: dazzling dogwoods, wonderful witch-hazel, and exciting edgeworthia.

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