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Youth poet Jessica Kim is in for a revolution

4:35pm April 27, 2022

To celebrate National Poetry Month, we're introducing listeners to poets competing to be the next National Youth Poet Laureate. The fourth finalist is Jessica Kim representing Los Angeles.

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New TV series revisit Watergate and the original 'Godfather'

2:04pm April 27, 2022

by David Bianculli

Gaslit tells the story of Watergate, focusing on Martha Mitchell, the outspoken wife President Nixon's attorney general. The Offer focuses on the making of the first Godfather movie.

Amy Schumer, left, creator, executive producer and star of Comedy Central's Inside Amy Schumer, comedian Bridget Everett, center, and author and comedian Jessi Klein attend the show's 3rd season premiere party in New York City in April 2015.

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Comedy writer Jessi Klein reflects on the disorienting experience of new motherhood

2:04pm April 27, 2022

by Terry Gross

Having a baby changes everything: "There's just no way to comprehend how completely your old identity vanishes," Klein says. Her new book is I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife & Motherhood.

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In 'Tasha,' a son tries to make sense of his smart, difficult mother

10:18am April 27, 2022

by Maureen Corrigan

In this droll, emotionally wrenching and profound memoir, novelist Brian Morton attempts to see his mother as a whole person — not just in relation to him, or, God forbid, as an eccentric "character."

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Christina Warren wears a MoviePass T-shirt, a piece of her collection of swag from dead companies.

From CNN+ to Fyre Festival: This collector seeks swag from companies with epic ends

5:30am April 27, 2022

by Jaclyn Diaz

Christina Warren collects T-shirts, mugs and other items from companies that promised huge changes, but failed to deliver — often in spectacular ways.

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'Nettle & Bone' creates a once-upon-a-time that is familiar, yet original

5:00am April 27, 2022

by Caitlyn Paxson

T. Kingfisher treats source material like a buffet; the result feels like a cozy but still perilous D&D adventure, full of found-family, second chances, and winks to the folklore that inspired it.

Among the books banned in Llano County, Texas, public libraries were: Robie H. Harris's It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health; Isabel Wilkerson's Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents; and Maurice Sendak's In the Night

In a lawsuit, a group of Texas library patrons says a book ban amounts to censorship

4:11pm April 26, 2022

by Joe Hernandez

Llano County officials said they wanted to remove "pornographic" material from libraries but actually censored books based on political and religious grounds, the library patrons' lawsuit says.

Bad Bunny speaks at CinemaCon on Monday in Las Vegas, during the announcement of his new role.

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Bad Bunny will be the first Latino to lead a live-action Marvel movie

2:37pm April 26, 2022

by Lilly Quiroz

Puerto Rican musician Bad Bunny will play the title character in the Spider-Man spinoff El Muerto — about a wrestler who gets superpowers from a mask. Sony Pictures plans a 2024 release.

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CNN anchor Zain Asher looks back on the tragedy that helped drive her success

1:27pm April 26, 2022

by Dave Davies

Asher's father died in a car crash in Nigeria when she was 5. Afterward, her mom raised four children on her own in a crime-ridden London neighborhood. Asher's memoir is Where the Children Take Us.

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This aerial photo shows the Bonanza Creek Ranch in Santa Fe, N.M., on Oct. 23, 2021, where a cinematographer was fatally shot two days earlier by actor and producer Alec Baldwin on the set of the film Rust.

Police release a trove of videos in the probe of the Alec Baldwin film-set shooting

12:52pm April 26, 2022

by The Associated Press

Police in Santa Fe, N.M., say they will release all files in the investigation into the fatal shooting in October of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins by Baldwin on the set of Rust.