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Aaliyah Manon, a student at Liguori Academy, in one of the reading nooks COURTESY CMI AND COMPAS
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Port Richmond school gets a library after years of planning, and students are reading up a storm

Donations are helping Liguori Academy fill up the shelves.

4 days ago

Author and animal rescue officer Jess Thedinga (right) at a Philly book event.
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Billy Penn

When she’s not rescuing cats or recording viral TikToks, this Philly animal control officer writes children’s books

Known online as ACO Jess, she just wants people to understand her job.

2 weeks ago

Revelations in Air: A Guidebook to Smell is published by Penguin Books.
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‘Revelations in Air’ and the power of smell

Author Jude Stewart on smell, the least understood of our five senses. And, what we know so far about Covid-19 and loss of scent...some people aren't bouncing back.

Air Date: May 13, 2022 10:00 am

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The Frankford Library has been closed partially or entirely 10 times in the past two months due to staff shortages (Asha Prihar/Billy Penn)
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Billy Penn

With ‘significant’ $10 million funding boost, Free Library forecasts stable five-day-a-week service and major hiring spree

There’s no timeline yet for the improvements — and advocates are pressing for more.

2 weeks ago

The flyer advertising the new library cards. (Brown, Ed (Library)/Nashville Public Library)
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In the battle over books, Nashville library’s response? ‘I read banned books’ cards

As efforts to control books continue, Nashville Public Library hopes to reach thousands of readers with its "I read banned books" card.

3 weeks ago

(photo credit, Emillie Krause)
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‘The Great Stewardess Rebellion’

Stewardesses 60s and 70s could only be single, childless, and attractive women. Nell McShane Wulfhart talks about how stewardesses organized to change these sexist policies.

Air Date: May 3, 2022 10:00 am

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ister Delphine Okoro, a nun with the Oblate Sisters of Providence, high fives a student as she teaches a fifth grade class at Mother Mary Lange Catholic School in Baltimore, Md., Wednesday, April 27, 2022.
Arts & Entertainment

Black Catholic nuns: A compelling, long-overlooked history

Historian Shannen Dee Williams' comprehensive and compelling history of America's Black nuns, “Subversive Habits,” will be published May 17.

3 weeks ago

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Arts & Entertainment

Children’s author Floyd Cooper to be honored nationally with his own day

Children’s Book Council has created Floyd Cooper day on May 6, honoring the late children’s book author and artist from the Philadelphia area.

4 weeks ago

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The Shame Machine: Who Profits In The New Age Of Humiliation

We discuss the public shaming on social media, where one tweet or post can make you the subject of humiliation by millions of people and end your career in an instant.

Air Date: April 19, 2022 10:00 am

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Visitors look at a globe in the map division at the main branch of the New York Public Library in New York. The library announced an effort this week to make commonly banned books available through their app. (Seth Wenig/AP)
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Community

New York Public Library makes banned books available for free

The initiative is called Books for All and allows any reader aged 13 and older to access commonly banned books through the library's app until the end of May.

1 month ago

Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist is published by W.W. Norton and Company. Photo by Catherine Marin.
Radio Times
Arts & Entertainment

Frans de Waal on gender roles and primates

In studying a society of male dominated monkeys and comparing them to a female-led group of monkeys, primatologist Frans de Waal challenges human assumptions about gender.

Air Date: April 14, 2022 10:00 am

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(Meghan Collins Sullivan/NPR)
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Community

Efforts to ban books jumped an ‘unprecedented’ four-fold in 2021, ALA report says

Book banning is not new — in the U.S. alone the practice goes back to Puritan times.

2 months ago

'Keep the Memories, Lose the Stuff' by Matt Paxton was released last month by publisher Portfolio. (Penguin Random House)
Radio Times
Arts & Entertainment

‘Keep the Memories, Lose the Stuff’: How to Declutter for Good

In Matt Paxton's latest book, America’s top cleaning expert and star of the hit PBS series 'Legacy List' distills his fail-proof approach to decluttering and downsizing.

Air Date: March 30, 2022 10:00 am

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U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright shakes hands with U.S. soldiers during her visit to Air Base Eagle near Tuzla, Aug, 30, 1998. Albright has died of cancer, her family said Wednesday, March 23, 2022.(AP Photo/Amel Emric, File)
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Politics & Policy

Special Archive Edition: Former Sec. of State Madeleine Albright

On this special edition of the Radio Times podcast, we revisit our interview with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who died Wednesday at the age of 84.

Air Date: March 24, 2022 6:00 pm

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Heather Havrilesky is the author of Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage, published by Ecco Harper Collins, available February 8, 2022.
Radio Times
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‘Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage’

A new book, 'Foreverland', has been called an "illuminating, poignant, and savagely funny examination of modern marriage from Ask Polly advice columnist Heather Havrilesky."

Air Date: March 15, 2022 10:00 am

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