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Jon Auvil, center, receives an Ernest Hemingway bust and congratulations after he won the 2022 Hemingway Look-Alike Contest at Sloppy Joe's Bar in Key West, Fla. Left of Auvil is Joe Maxey, the 2019 winner, and at right is Fred Johnson, who won in 1986. I

The importance of being Ernest: An attorney wins a Hemingway contest

8:59pm July 24, 2022

by The Associated Press

Joe Auvil, a Dade City resident, beat out 124 entrants. Auvil, who already shares Hemingway's passion for fishing, is dressing for the job he wants: "Every man wants to write like Hemingway," he said.

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The future of the Earth under climate change is 'Denial'

8:57am July 24, 2022

by Ayesha Rascoe

Ayesha Rascoe talks with Jon Raymond about his novel, "Denial," which takes place in a future shaped by climate change.

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Ellen Jovin takes on the nation's grammatical quandaries in 'Rebel With A Clause'

8:32am July 23, 2022

by Scott Simon

Scott Simon talks with Ellen Jovin, author of "Rebel With A Clause," about the many grammar questions she's fielded from the public and whether it's ever OK to correct someone's grammar.

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What's making us happy: A guide to your weekend reading, listening and viewing

5:00pm July 22, 2022

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Hurricane Season, A Strange Loop, and more.

Sir Mark Lowcock, the former head of the U.N.'s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, has written a memoir, Relief Chief: A Manifesto for Saving Lives in Dire Times. In 2017, he was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath for hi

Former U.N. 'relief chief' shares his secret for coping with crises: a 'sunny gene'

5:18pm July 21, 2022

by Malaka Gharib

From 2017 to 2021, Sir Mark Lowcock was the U.N.'s "relief chief," the world's most senior humanitarian official. He talks to NPR about what inspired him and why crises are getting worse.

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Encore: Margo Jefferson's new memoir is like a kaleidoscope into someone's life

5:10pm July 21, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winner Margo Jefferson about her memoir, Constructing A Nervous System, in which she tells her story through the creators and art that shaped her.

Ottessa Moshfegh's new book, Lapvona, is her most gruesome and graphic work to date.

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Ottessa Moshfegh's year of death and internet clout

5:00am July 21, 2022

by Andrew Limbong

The My Year of Rest and Relaxation author on feeling used, becoming an internet symbol for detachment, and how her new book has lightened her load of dead bodies.

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In his new book, Jamil Jan Kochai writes of war, displacement and haunting memories

4:43pm July 19, 2022

Jamil Jan Kochai's new book, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and other Stories, explores war, displacement, family and the memories that haunt us.

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Books in Translation: Three tales touching on French colonialism

9:42am July 19, 2022

by Lily Meyer

Mutt-Lon's The Blunder, Pina by Titaua Peu, and Thuận's Chinatown all come from different continents and not only were written in French but also deal, glancingly or in depth, with French colonialism.

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'The Disney Revolt' details animators' 1941 strike against Disney

6:24am July 19, 2022

by Barry Gordemer

A new book by Jake Friedman documents a bitter strike in 1941 by Disney animators who wanted to unionize. The book is titled, The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age.

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