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Three-Minute Fiction: 'Ten Ring Fingers' And 'Ghost Words'
Sun, 19 May 2013 06:54:00 -0400
NPR's Bob Mondello and Susan Stamberg read excerpts of two of the best submissions for Round 11 of our short story contest. They read Ten Ring Fingers by Tamara Breuer of Washington, D.C., and Ghost Words by Matheus Macedo of Winthrop, Mass.
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Siblings' Separation Haunts In 'Kite Runner' Author's Latest
Sun, 19 May 2013 05:41:00 -0400
Khaled Hosseini's new novel, like his two earlier works, is set partly in Afghanistan — but this time, political turmoil isn't a major element of the plot. Instead, And The Mountains Echoed is a story of a family's loss that spans decades and continents.
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Stories Of Hope Amid America's 'Unwinding'
Sun, 19 May 2013 05:41:00 -0400
When the factory she worked at closed down, Tammy Thomas reinvented herself as a community organizer; and when Dean Price's truck stop business went belly up, he became a champion of biofuel. In a new book, George Packer examines how ordinary people are adapting to a new America.
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Ghost Ships, Murders, Bird Attacks: Stories To Keep You Awake
Sun, 19 May 2013 07:00:00 -0400
Author Ethan Rutherford started reading Daphne du Maurier's collection of stories, Don't Look Now, while it was still light out and didn't move from his chair until dark. Each one features characters who endure the strange and the extreme, and who are forever changed by the events that befall them.
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Ten Ring Fingers
Sun, 19 May 2013 06:42:00 -0400
She found the first ring on a night that smelled of body odor and beer. The bar's last customers had finally given up hope of taking her to bed and staggered away, leaving her to clean the stains of their desperation.
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Ghost Words
Sun, 19 May 2013 06:41:00 -0400
The letter smelled of lavender and vanilla, like she couldn't decide which perfume to use so she used both. Her hand-writing had been drawn with the careful precision only seventh-grade girls in love have patience for.
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Three-Minute Fiction Reading: 'Plum Baby'
Sat, 18 May 2013 16:41:08 -0400
NPR's Susan Stamberg reads an excerpt of one of the best submissions for Round 11 of our short story contest. She reads Plum Baby by Carmiel Banasky of Portland, Ore.
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'Waiting To Be Heard' No More, Amanda Knox Speaks Out
Sat, 18 May 2013 16:41:00 -0400
Less than two months into her study abroad program in Italy, Amanda Knox was accused and eventually convicted of murdering her roommate, Meredith Kercher. After her conviction was overturned, Knox returned home to Seattle — and now faces a potential retrial. Knox tells her story in a new memoir.
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Dan Brown: 'Inferno' Is 'The Book That I Would Want To Read'
Sat, 18 May 2013 05:13:00 -0400
Dan Brown, author of the blockbuster The Da Vinci Code, is back with his first novel in four years. Inferno follows academic hero Robert Langdon on a chase through Italy as he attempts to avert a biological catastrophe.
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'That's That': A Memoir Of Loving And Leaving Northern Ireland
Sat, 18 May 2013 05:13:00 -0400
Colin Broderick's new memoir, That's That, chronicles his childhood in Northern Ireland during the modern-day "Troubles." Broderick says growing up in what was essentially a war zone seemed normal to him at the time.
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Author Elliott Holt Says: 'Go West, Young Woman'
Sat, 18 May 2013 07:00:00 -0400
In this Q&A, author Elliott Holt discusses her six favorite novels about expatriates. She also talks about what it's like to be in your 20s, and the importance of travel and exploration.
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Plum Baby
Sat, 18 May 2013 06:19:00 -0400
There isn't enough time in this world to grow your own tree. That tree is a plum baby still, never mind it's tall as the house those men are taking from us. It grew up with me.
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'Picture Cook': Drawings Are The Key Ingredients In These Recipes
Fri, 17 May 2013 14:45:00 -0400
Designer Katie Shelly's upcoming cookbook offers 50 illustrated recipe "blueprints" for basic meals — from simple snacks to more hefty dishes like eggplant Parmesan. She hopes they'll inspire any level of cook to improvise in the kitchen.
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Resetting the Theory of Time
Fri, 17 May 2013 13:00:00 -0400
Generations of physicists have claimed that time is an illusion. But not all agree. In his book Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe, theoretical physicist Lee Smolin argues that time exists--and he says time is key to understanding the evolution of the universe.
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Insects May Be The Taste Of The Next Generation, Report Says
Fri, 17 May 2013 13:00:00 -0400
A report from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization says insects offer a huge potential for improving the world's food security. Peter Menzel, co-author of Man Eating Bugs, describes some insect-based cuisine and the western aversion to creepy-crawly snacks.
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