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Self-portrait of John Porcellino Copyright John Porcellino/Courtesy of Drawn & Quarterly hide caption
Tenzin Kalsang's in-person story times in Tibetan and English on were held at the Williamsburgh branch of the Brooklyn Public Library system. Brooklyn Public Library's Facebook Page/Screenshot hide caption
Brooklyn Librarian Becomes Unlikely Star With Her Bilingual Story Time
'It's Hard To Leave Him': 'Sympathizer' Spy Story Continues In 'The Committed'
General: D'Zion Thompson Kahran and Regis Bethencourt hide caption
Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans, by Michaeleen Doucleff Avid Reader Press hide caption
Nanjala Nyabola is an academic, traveler, and collector of guidebooks, some of which are pictured here. Nanjala Nyabola hide caption
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A Botched Execution Leads To A Search For Answers In 'Two Truths And A Lie'
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A Botched Execution Leads To A Search For Answers In 'Two Truths And A Lie'
Tim O'Brien was a foot soldier during the Vietnam War. "The problem for me really is that I questioned the rectitude of the war," he says. "I thought I was doing the wrong thing by being there." Courtesy of Gravitas Ventures hide caption
Tim O'Brien On Late-In-Life Fatherhood And The Things He Carried From Vietnam
Poet and author Lawrence Ferlinghetti, pictured above in 1960, was born on March 24, 1919. AP hide caption
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Beat Poet And Small-Press Publisher, Dies At 101
Flight of the Diamond Smugglers: A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa, by Matthew Gavin Frank Liveright hide caption
Red Line: The Unraveling of Syria and America's Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World, by Joby Warrick Doubleday hide caption