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When It Comes To Talking Sex, Young Adult Books Can Be A Parent's Best Friend

6:55pm April 01, 2016

by Neda Ulaby

Today's young adult novels deal with consent, sexual assault and the pressures of sexting, among other things. For parents who aren't comfortable broaching those subjects, these books can help.

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'Diver's Clothes' Is A Cautionary Tale (And A Fantasy) About Travel

1:48pm April 01, 2016

Vendela Vida's The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty is a novel about the sense of dislocation that often comes with traveling to another country. Originally broadcast on June 30, 2015.

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British politician Winston Churchill and his wife, Clementine, make a toast upon their arrival in Switzerland in August 1946. Stories of Churchill's special relationship with alcohol are legendary — and champagne was his truest passion. A new book revea

Hitler Couldn't Defeat Churchill, But Champagne Nearly Did

11:06am April 01, 2016

by Nina Martyris

During the 1930s, as Hitler was rising to power in Germany, the man who would turn out to be his most implacable foe was drowning — in debt and champagne. A new book recounts the unbelievable excess.

"One of the things I've learned from being the curator of the most desolate gallery of food photography on the planet is that loneliness and an inability to cook is a truly global phenomenon."

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Intentionally Awful Photos Of 'Dimly Lit Meals For One'

11:04am April 01, 2016

by Tove Danovich

Instagram food photos often offer a curated image of an idealized existence. This book is not that: It pairs grainy photos of culinary monstrosities with fictional tales of the sad sacks eating them.

Writer, director and journalist Nora Ephron died in 2012 of complications from leukemia.

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In 'Everything Is Copy,' Nora Ephron's Son Tries Her Philosophy

3:25pm March 31, 2016

Jacob Bernstein named his documentary about his mother after an Ephron family saying — "everything is copy," meaning that anything and everything that happens to you is fair game to write about.

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Injuries Increase As Pitchers Throw Harder, Faster And Younger

2:04pm March 31, 2016

In The Arm, baseball columnist Jeff Passan explains how competitive pressure on young players is making them more vulnerable.

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Dietland and 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl

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'You Cannot Shame Me': 2 New Books Tear Down 'Fat Girl' Stereotypes

7:16am March 31, 2016

by Lynn Neary

Authors Sarai Walker and Mona Awad were tired of the way fat characters were — and weren't — portrayed in fiction. Dietland and 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl attack a culture of stigmatization.

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'Empire Of Things' Surveys How, What And Why We Consume

7:00am March 31, 2016

by Jason Heller

Frank Trentmann's sprawling new history looks at several centuries worth of consumerism. It's a huge, and hugely readable survey of all the ways we accumulate — and exhaust — material goods.

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A Spanish Comic Book Exposes Franco's Orphanages

7:20am March 30, 2016

by Etelka Lehoczky

Carlos Giménez's graphic novel Paracuellos is an unflinching memoir of his time in the orphanages of Franco's Spain; it makes the experiences of a few boys in the 1950s inescapably universal.

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Lurid And Ludicrous, 'Shock SuspenStories' Will Make Your Eyes Pop

7:00am March 30, 2016

by Etelka Lehoczky

A new collection reprints the first six issues of EC Comics' classic 1950s pulp horror series. Packed with gore and goofiness, these may, in fact, be the comics your mother warned you about.