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Books

Gerald Shields (right), author of
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Arts & Entertainment

Front row to American history, on a Kensington barstool

A new book about a Kensington veterans club is a small peephole onto the national stage.

8 years ago

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Pamela M. Tuck reads her book “As Fast As Words Could Fly” at the 26th annual African-American Children’s Book Fair at the Community College of Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

One of the oldest African-American children’s book fairs returns to Philly

One of the country’s oldest book fairs devoted to African-American children's literature returned to Philadelphia Saturday for its 26th year.

8 years ago

Philadelphia children's book author Christine Kendall wrote
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Community

Philly author’s first novel featured at nation’s oldest African-American children’s book fair

The 26th Annual African-American Children’s Book Fair is set to host more than 3,500 readers at the Community College of Philadelphia Saturday.

8 years ago

Listen 5:19
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Max Boot’s “The Road Not Taken”

MAX BOOT, military historian and author, writes the story of Edward Lansdale —a bri ...

Air Date: February 1, 2018

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** FILE ** Turkish author Elif Shafak is seen during an interview with The Associated Press in Istanbul, Turkey, in this Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006 file photo.  A Turkish court on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2006, acquitted Elif Shafak, one of Turkey's leading authors, saying there was no evidence that she
Radio Times
Arts & Entertainment

Elif Shafak’s “Three Daughters of Eve”

ELIF SHAFAK is an award-winning Turkish novelist who writes about women’s and min ...

8 years ago

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** FILE ** Turkish author Elif Shafak is seen during an interview with The Associated Press in Istanbul, Turkey, in this Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006 file photo.  A Turkish court on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2006, acquitted Elif Shafak, one of Turkey's leading authors, saying there was no evidence that she
Radio Times
Arts & Entertainment

Elif Shafak’s “Three Daughters of Eve” / Trump’s address

Guest: Philip Bump, Elif Shafak ELIF SHAFAK is an award-win ...

Air Date: January 31, 2018

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Photo credit: Beck Photography
Radio Times
Arts & Entertainment

One Book, One Philadelphia – a conversation with Jacqueline Woodson

Guest: Jacqueline Woodson We listen to Marty’s conversation with writer ...

Air Date: January 29, 2018

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Young woman visiting a loved one at the cemetery paying respects with fresh rose flowers. Female grieving at graveyard.
Radio Times
Health

There’s no right way to grieve

Guests: Megan Devine, Julia Cooper All of us will experience the death of a loved one in our lives, yet many of u ...

Air Date: January 26, 2018

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Ursula K. Le Guin speaks at the 2014 National Book Awards, where she was presented with lifetime achievement honors.
NPR
Arts & Entertainment

Ursula K. Le Guin, whose novels plucked truth from high fantasy, dies at 88

Le Guin crafted fantastic worlds to grapple with profoundly difficult questions here on Earth, from class divisions to feminist theory.

8 years ago

Arts & Entertainment

Sherman Alexie: “You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me”

Guest: Sherman Alexie SHERMAN ALEXIE’s relationship with ...

Air Date: January 19, 2018

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Michael Wolff speaks with Dick Polman
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Wolff’s book resonates because Trump keeps confirming it

Wolff concluded that Trump is unfit to serve. And virtually everything that Trump has done and said since the book’s release has demonstrated that he got it right.

8 years ago

Michael Wolff of The Hollywood Reporter speaks at the Newseum in Washington, Wednesday, April 12, 2017, as he moderates a conversation with Counselor to President Donald Trump Kellyanne Conway during
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury”

Guest: Michael Wolff, Eddie Glaude Jr. Journalist  ...

Air Date: January 16, 2018

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Radio Times
Lifestyle

Poetry, race relations, and MLK

Guests: Tracy K. Smith, Jonathan Rieder, Michael Eric Dyson For today’s Martin Luther King Holiday, we’re goi ...

Air Date: January 15, 2018

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In a rush to buy journalist and author Michael Wolff's book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, buyers have mistakenly purchased Randall Hansen's book of a similar name, Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-1945. (Leon Neal/Getty Images)
NPR
Money

Author of the other ‘Fire And Fury’ book says business is booming

He moved from "very, very low sales onto three best-seller lists."

8 years ago

Philadelphia's new poet laureate Raquel Salas Rivera.
NewsWorks Tonight
Arts & Entertainment

Philadelphia names new poet laureate

Raquel Salas Rivera, a gender-fluid, Puerto Rican writer, has been named Philadelphia's new city poet laureate.

8 years ago

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