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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.

9 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.

9 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."

9 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.

9 years ago

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These are some of the books from the study. (From left) The Cat That Eats Letters by Ge Jing; The Foolish Old Man Who Removed The Mountain by Cai Feng; The Jar of Happiness by Aisla Burrows. (Shandong Education Press; Shanghai people's Fine Arts Publishing House; Child's Play International)
NPR
Lifestyle

What’s the difference between children’s books in China and the U.S.?

What are the hidden messages in the storybooks we read to our kids?

9 years ago

The New York Times published a series of articles based on the secret Pentagon papers in 1971.
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Censorship stupidity: Trump tries to keep the Wolff from his door

How fitting that Trump's attempt to block the release of a devastating book roughly parallels Richard Nixon's attempt to block the release of the Pentagon Papers.

9 years ago

Fans spell out BOWIE with their bodies outside Sigma Sound Studios on 12th Street in 1974 while David Bowie was recording songs for the album
Arts & Entertainment

Philly loves Bowie — the second time around

The second annual Philly Loves Bowie Week will feature a new book and documentary film.

9 years ago

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Radio Times
Arts & Entertainment

Poet Nikki Giovanni / Writer Adam Valen Levinson

Guests: Nikki Giovanni, Adam Valen Levinson We begin today’s show listening to Marty’s conversation with poet ...

Air Date: January 1, 2018

Listen 49:37
Radio Times
Arts & Entertainment

Poet Nikki Giovanni

Guest: Nikki Giovanni In poet NIKKI GIOVANNI’s ne ...

9 years ago

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Radio Times
Arts & Entertainment

Adam Levinson’s ‘The Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah’

Guest: Adam Valen Levinson ADAM VALEN LEVINSON< ...

9 years ago

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