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Saturday, February 09, 2013
Author Interviews
Manufactured On YouTube, Teen Pop Star Searches For His True Voice
February 9, 2013 The road tour is a well-known backdrop in American novels and one Teddy Wayne explores in his new novel, The Love Song of Jonny Valentine. Along the way, Jonny, a teen heartthrob, explores the pressures of celebrity at a young age.
Movies I've Seen A Million Times
The Movie Roman Coppola Has 'Seen A Million Times'
February 9, 2013 Writer-director Roman Coppola could watch Woody Allen's Stardust Memories a million times. "It's a film that is endlessly imaginative and has wonderful surprises at every corner," he says.
Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
Singer Erykah Badu Plays Not My Job
February 9, 2013 Valentine's Day is coming up, and if you don't have a date — don't worry. There's help for everybody out there. Everybody. We've invited Badu to answer three questions about super-specialized dating sites.
The Salt
What To Do With All That Snow? Cook It
February 9, 2013 If your front yard is buried under drifts, treat yourself to some snow cuisine. It's like making lemons out of lemonade — just steer clear of any lemon-colored snow outside, please. Sugar on snow and snow cream are two sweet places to start.
Books
Life, Love And Undeath In The 'Lemon Grove'
February 9, 2013 Swamplandia! author Karen Russell is back with a new collection of short stories, Vampires in the Lemon Grove. The title story features two elderly vampires, married for more than a century, who wonder what "till death do us part" means when you can't die.
Monkey See
Spend Grammy Night Staring At Screens With Us!
February 9, 2013 For the fifth straight year, whether marveling at Taylor Swift's capacity for surprise or trying to figure out what to type during the combined 37 minutes of Bruno Mars performances, Linda Holmes and Stephen Thompson live-blogged the ceremony in an effort to serve your reading-along needs.
Author Interviews
Healing 'Brick City': A Newark Doctor Returns Home
February 9, 2013 In a new memoir, Sampson Davis describes what it was like to return to the hospital where he was born to become an emergency physician. He says his mother taught him that "once you make it, you have to come back and help other people."
Books
Literary Types Find Love In 'The New York Review Of Books'
February 9, 2013 The magazine is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. It's famous for its rigorous writing and ability to attract literary stars — but also for its quirky personal ads, where "squalid Sydney wombats" and "Antediluvian Mariners" seek "foxy cougars" and "street-credible jacobins."
Theater
The Scottish Play (The Olivier Way)
February 9, 2013 British stage and screen legend Laurence Olivier had always hoped to produce his own film version of Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth. Now, decades after Olivier's death, a researcher has stumbled across his lost screen treatment of "the Scottish play."
Book Reviews
A Pale Imitation Of Magic In 'Scent Of Darkness'
February 9, 2013 Margot Berwin's new novel Scent of Darkness follows a young woman rendered irresistible by a magical perfume. Reviewer Mary Bly says the problem isn't the magical-realism aspects of the story, but the dull and complacent heroine.
Friday, February 08, 2013
Movie Reviews
'Identity Thief': Nearly Two Hours, Stolen
February 8, 2013 The individual ingredients that make up Identity Thief could add up to a great movie. But the digital-age mistaken-identity comedy wastes a talented leading actress and a passable plot; it's a predictable trudge of a road movie.
Art & Design
Could Reclusive Designer Balenciaga Make It Today?
![Cristobal Balenciaga was known as a perfectionist, especially when it came to sleeves. Blume says, "It was perhaps a sign of real personal attention if you were one of the rare clients that he had lunch with, and at the end of the lunch he ripped out [your] sleeve and reset it."](http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2013/02/08/ap060705010548-517f5a3a1d9f7d659c3c656705ca57724ea67904-s1.jpg "Cristobal Balenciaga was known as a perfectionist, especially when it came to sleeves. Blume says, \"It was perhaps a sign of real personal attention if you were one of the rare clients that he had lunch with, and at the end of the lunch he ripped out [your] sleeve and reset it.\"")
February 8, 2013 In the '40s and '50s, Cristobal Balenciaga was an international fashion star — but a lot has changed since then. Fashion writer Robin Givhan says today's fashion world demands that designers "have the personality of a celebrity." That may not have gone over well with the secretive Spaniard.
