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Raised By 5 Different Families, 7 Siblings Are Reunited In 'Bastards'

10:44am June 28, 2015

by NPR Staff

In her debut memoir Mary Anna King tells the story of her fractured upbringing and how — in the face of poverty — love and hard work were not sufficient to keep her family together.

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Adonal Foyle (center) plays for the Orlando Magic against the Milwaukee Bucks in 2007.

How To Win The Money Game: A Former NBA Star Shares Financial Advice

7:38pm June 27, 2015

by NPR Staff

Adonal Foyle has financial advice for professional athletes. "You really have to put money in its proper place," he says. "If we do that, we will respect it — but not give it too much power over us."

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How Scientists Created A Typhus Vaccine In A 'Fantastic Laboratory'

1:16pm June 26, 2015

Writer Arthur Allen describes how a WWII scientist in Poland smuggled the typhus vaccine to Jews — while his team made a weakened version for the Nazis. Originally broadcast July 22, 2014.

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Blume revisits her old Miami Beach school, Central Beach Elementary, which is now Fienberg Fisher K-8. Click here to go on a virtual tour of Blume's Miami Beach.

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Take A Walk With Judy Blume Through Her Old Miami Beach Neighborhood

8:05pm June 25, 2015

by Alicia Zuckerman

Blume says her time in Miami Beach in the late '40s was the most important time in her childhood. Starring Sally J. Freedman As Herself is a slightly fictionalized autobiography of Blume's life there.

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'Project Fatherhood' Teaches Parenting Skills To Inner-City Dads

3:18pm June 24, 2015

Mike Cummings and Jorja Leap are working with men in Los Angeles — many of whom are former gang members — to help them find something that was missing from their lives as they grew up: fatherhood.

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Noah Charney is an art historian and writer, and the founder and president of The Association for Research into Crimes against Art, a non-profit research group devoted to issues of art crime.

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Could The Masterpiece Be A Fake? Profit, Revenge And 'The Art Of Forgery'

2:24pm June 23, 2015

The art world is "fertile ground for criminals," says art scholar Noah Charney. In his new book, The Art of Forgery, he traces a tradition of fakes and forgeries that dates back to the Renaissance.

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After Years Of Blackouts, A Writer Remembers What She 'Drank To Forget'

1:34pm June 23, 2015

by NPR Staff

Sarah Hepola's memoir Blackout is filled with stories that are both funny and tragic — about how she'd drink to excess, and then try to piece it all together the following day.

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Apatow (who dressed up as Harpo Marx for Halloween in 1975) was one of the youngest kids in his grade. "When you're little, that year is impactful," he says. "You are smaller, you are behind in every possible way."

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Judd Apatow: A Comedy-Obsessed Kid Becomes 'Champion Of The Goofball'

1:07am June 23, 2015

When Apatow was a teen he landed interviews with an impressive roster of comics for his high school radio show. Sick in the Head is a collection of those conversations, and more recent ones as well.

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From Civilian To Spy: How An Average Guy Helped Bust A Russian Agent

7:39pm June 22, 2015

by NPR Staff

You'd think spying on the Russians would require some training, but Naveed Jamali had none. "Probably some Magnum P.I. episodes and a few movies here and there," he says. "That was about it."

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This Weekend, 'Caminar' Navigates Horrors With Poetry

10:26am June 22, 2015

by NPR Staff

In this installment of our Weekend Reads series, author Meg Medina selects Skila Brown's novel in poems Caminar, which follows a young boy who survives the slaughter of his village in Guatemala.

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