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Friday, February 01, 2013
NPR's Backseat Book Club
We're Off To Read The Wizard, 'The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz'
February 1, 2013 NPR's Backseat Book Club takes the yellow brick road back to its origins with L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, published in 1900.
Author Interviews
Netflix Moves Back Into Content Production With 'Cards'
February 1, 2013 House of Cards is a $100 million adaptation of a British television show. Starring Kevin Spacey, the first two episodes are directed by The Social Network's David Fincher — and all 13 episodes will be available at once.
Thursday, January 31, 2013
You Must Read This
War Writ Small: Of Pushcarts And Peashooters
January 31, 2013 Jean Merrill's classic children's book The Pushcart War explores war, peace and pushcarts on the streets of New York. Author Adam Mansbach writes that the story still resonates. Do you have a favorite children's book that deals with heavy themes? Tell us in the comments.
Author Interviews
'Distant Witness': Social Media's 'Journalism Revolution'
January 31, 2013 When protests broke out across North Africa and the Middle East, NPR senior strategist Andy Carvin followed the events in real time online. In his book Distant Witness, Carvin explains how he cultivated social media sources into a new form of journalism where people on the ground controlled the news.
Book Reviews
In Search Of A Father, Finding Herself
January 31, 2013 When a psychic tells her that her biological father is still alive, Portland, Ore., comic-book artist Nicole Georges begins a quest of self discovery. Critic Carmen Gimenez Smith calls Georges' graphic memoir "a beautiful and innovative portrait" of an artist's journey.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Sotomayor's Memoir Already A Best-Seller
January 30, 2013 The nation's first Latina justice tells her story of rising from poverty to reach the epitome of the legal world.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Author Interviews
'The Insurgents': Petraeus And A New Kind Of War
January 29, 2013 In a new book about Gen. David Petraeus, author and journalist Fred Kaplan looks at how theories of counterinsurgency have shaped U.S. military policy in the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Book Reviews
Separating Man From Myth In 'The First Muslim'
January 29, 2013 A new biography of the Prophet Muhammad attempts to find the real man inside the mythology. Reviewer Drew Toal says the book describes the prophet as "a mostly reasonable, marginalized man beset by extraordinary circumstances."
New In Paperback
Jan. 28-Feb. 3: Teen Lust, Gothic Fright And A History Of Introverts
January 29, 2013 In softcover fiction and nonfiction, John Irving explores teen lust; Denise Mina delivers a murder mystery; David Maraniss looks at the young Barack Obama; Robert Kagan defends U.S. sovereignty; and Susan Cain stands up for introverts.
Poetry
Rare Robert Frost Collection Surfaces 50 Years After His Death
January 29, 2013 Jonathan Reichert, professor emeritus at the State University of New York at Buffalo, has donated a rare collection of Robert Frost's letters, photographs and audio files to the school. The materials chronicle the decades-long friendship between the poet and Reichert's father, rabbi and poet Victor Reichert.
Monday, January 28, 2013
All Tech Considered
E-Readers Track How We Read, But Is The Data Useful To Authors?
January 28, 2013 Data is being collected about your reading habits — what kind of books you read, whether or not you finish them. Publishers say the information could improve how books are written, but some novelists are skeptical.
The Opinion Page
A 'Permatemp' Economy: The Idea Of The Expendable Employee
January 28, 2013 Nearly 13 million people head to work as temporary and contract employees each year, according to the American Staffing Association. In an opinion piece for The New York Times, sociologist Erin Hatton argues that it's time to get rid of the "anti-worker ideology that has come to accompany it."
