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Monday, February 25, 2013
Book Reviews
Under Ogawa's Macabre, Metafictional Spell
February 25, 2013 Fiction is reality and reality fiction in Revenge, Yoko Ogawa's absorbing cycle of interlinked, eerie tales. Readers may detect the shadows of Murakami, Borges and Poe, but, says critic Alan Cheuse, Ogawa's delicious tales cast their own singular spell.
The Salt
Sandwich Monday: Fish McBites
February 25, 2013 For this week's Sandwich Monday, we try McDonald's new "Fish McBites." They're basically a seafood version of their Chicken McNuggets. Or as McDonald's calls it, "tender pieces of poppable white, flaky Alaskan Pollock."
Books
The Science Of Being 'Top Dog'
February 25, 2013 Some people think competition is an art. Others believe it's a skill. A new book suggests it might be neither — and that there is a science behind winning. Host Michel Martin speaks with authors Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman about Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing.
Author Interviews
Whitey Bulger Bio Profiles Boston's Most Notorious Gangster
February 25, 2013 Reporters Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy, who covered Bulger for years for The Boston Globe, have a new book out about the career criminal. Bulger was wanted for 19 murders when he was captured by the FBI in 2011. He faces trial in June.
Monkey See
What You Didn't See At The Academy Awards
February 25, 2013 NPR's Sam Sanders and Mandalit del Barco were backstage in the press room during the Oscars. Here's a roundup of what they saw that you didn't see, in senior superlative form.
The Two-Way
Book News: 'Life Of Pi' Author Strips Down For Charity
February 25, 2013 Also: Toni Morrison's digital signing; our picks for the best books out this week; and William S. Burroughs in a Nike ad.
New In Paperback
Feb. 25-March 3: Unlikely Healers, Chinese Planes And An Orphan's Revelation
February 25, 2013 In fiction, Peter Cameron's complicated romance, Mohammed Hanif's tale of unwelcome inheritance, Kathryn Harrison's historical drama, and Stephen Dau's bildungsroman arrive in paperback. In softcover nonfiction, James Fallows documents the rise of China's aerospace industry.
Monkey See
The Oscars Broadcast, Zooming Way Past Cheeky To Land Squarely On Crass
February 25, 2013 Seth MacFarlane hosted the 85th Academy Awards which Monkey See's Linda Holmes says was one of the worst hosting performances in Oscar history. Jokes about women just kept coming. His sexist jokes were in poor taste, sure, but if they'd been funny, nobody would have cared.
Sunday, February 24, 2013
The Two-Way
Red Carpet Glam: NPR's Coverage Of A Night At The Oscars
February 24, 2013 Laugh, cry, be upset and outraged over this year's Academy Award winners and losers, as we live blog the results.
Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!
'Wait Wait' Trips Down The Red Carpet
February 24, 2013 Style commentary from people who have none!
Oscars 2013: The 85th Annual Academy Awards
Oscar Party @NPR: Red Carpet, Live-Blog And You
February 24, 2013 NPR's Linda Holmes and NPR Music's Stephen Thompson team up with entertainment writer Marc Hirsch to live-blog the 85th Annual Academy Awards. Plus off-kilter commentary from the red carpet, courtesy of Wait, Wait ... producer Ian Chillag. Your comments encouraged, too!
Oscars 2013: The 85th Annual Academy Awards
Behind The Camera With Short-Doc Oscar Nominees
February 24, 2013 The directors of the five films nominated for best documentary short talk to NPR's Audie Cornish about the stories they tell in their films: tales of illness in Africa, can collectors in New York, lonely retirees, an artistic homeless teenager, and a salon-side view of cancer.
