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Found At Sea, Civil War Sailors Buried In Arlington
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Saturday, March 16, 2013
Music News
Arhoolie Records: 50 Years Of Digging For Down-Home Music
March 16, 2013 Founded by Chris Strachwitz, the California label has been recording and distributing hard-to-find blues, Cajun and Mexican-American music since the early 1960s.
Music Interviews
Duane Allman: Guitar Playing That 'Gets Inside Of You'
March 16, 2013 Although he died at the young age of 24, Allman produced a legendary breadth of work. A new box set compiled by his daughter chronicles his career.
Iraq
Letters To My Dead Father
March 16, 2013 The father of Guffran, then a 9-year-old Iraqi girl, was gunned down in a Baghdad street in 2006 at the height of the war. She continues writing letters to him, just as she did when he was alive. Now, she lives in one room with her mother and brother. She wants to study but faces difficult odds.
Author Interviews
Lack Of Conscience Gets A Comeuppance In 'The Accursed'
March 16, 2013 In Joyce Carol Oates' latest novel, apparitions haunt the streets of sleepy 1905 Princeton, N.J. Oates says she wanted to explore the hypocrisy of wealthy white America in that era with her portrayal of a town where the denial of social and racial injustice produces monsters.
Author Interviews
A Little Blue Alien Helped Hemon Bear Witness To His 'Lives'
March 16, 2013 Celebrated novelist Aleksandar Hemon's first nonfiction book is a memoir of his early life in Sarajevo, his flight and acclimation to Chicago after the Bosnian War broke out, and the family tragedy that hit years after he made his new home in the U.S.
Saturday, March 09, 2013
Simon Says
Snowquester Fizzles, But We're Humbled Anyway
March 9, 2013 After Snowquester fizzled, Scott Simon muses that snow forecasts falling so flat is a sound reminder, during a time of national debate, that experts can be wrong.
