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Author Mary Higgins Clark signs copies of her book Daddy's Gone A Hunting at the Simon and Schuster office in New York in 2013.

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As She Turns 90, Suspense Still Thrills Author Mary Higgins Clark

4:01pm December 18, 2017

by Lynn Neary

Known as the "queen of suspense," Higgins Clark still publishes two books a year. She says the greatest compliment she gets is when someone tells her, "'I read your darn book till 4 in the morning.'"

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For Novelist Jennifer Egan, 'The Joy Of Writing Is Being Delivered Out Of My Life'

2:19pm December 18, 2017

by Sam Briger

"I don't use my life as inspiration," says the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. Her new book, Manhattan Beach, imagines the lives of the women who worked on the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II.

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'The School Of Doing' Pays Tribute To Theater Master, UNCSA Dean Emeritus Gerald Freedman

5:49am December 18, 2017

by David Ford

In the history of modern theatre and film, few have had more impact than Gerald Freedman.

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In 'Fortress America,' Examining How Fear Crept Into American Life

6:42pm December 17, 2017

by Ray Suarez

Historian Elaine Tyler May says that since the Cold War, fear has crept into American life. Her new book, Fortress America, examines key events that shaped today's political climate.

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The Philippine eagle Pithecophaga jefferyi faces extinction from mining, pollution and poaching.

PHOTOS: Animals That Could Disappear Because Of Us

7:00am December 16, 2017

by Angus Chen

And the well-being of humans could suffer if the species go extinct. The images are from a new book, 'Endangered,' by Tim Flach.

Wheels of Dutch Remeker, a farmhouse cheese

Reinventing The Cheese Wheel: From Farmhouse To Factory And Back Again

11:00am December 15, 2017

by Jim Clarke

A new book traces the transatlantic cheese wars that led to the rise of factory cheeses and loss of traditional varietals, and looks at the farmhouse cheesemakers working to restore that lost legacy.

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A Look At The Man Who Started 21st Century Fox

9:45pm December 14, 2017

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Vanda Krefft, author of The Man Who Made the Movies: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox about the origins of the studio, 21st Century Fox, that was sold today. Born in Hungary, Wilhelm Fuchs came to the U.S. where officials changed the family name to Fox. As a teenager, Fox was inspired to buy a peepshow theatre and got into the movie business.

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Poetry's Not Dead, And Here Are Books To Help Appreciate It

4:47pm December 14, 2017

by Tess Taylor

Our poetry reviewer, Tess Taylor, received a stack of books over the course of this year to help encourage reading poetry. She began reading skeptically, but grew to love two of them: Why Poetry by Matthew Zapruder and A Little Book on Form by Robert Hass.

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Once she started having fun onstage, Tiffany Haddish says "People were kind; it was easier to move forward."

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Tiffany Haddish: 'I Know What I'm Supposed To Do Here On This Earth'

8:47am December 14, 2017

by David Greene

The Girl's Trip actress has had what seems like a meteoric rise over the last year: a blockbuster movie, a gig hosting Saturday Night Live, and now a new memoir, The Last Black Unicorn.

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Recess For Adults: The Spirited Case For Dinner Parties

6:07am December 14, 2017

by Bethany Chafin

Brunch is the absolute worst. At least it is according to the hosts of The Dinner Party Download.

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