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The Incomplete Book of Running
The Book of Vice

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Not His Job: 'Wait Wait' Host Peter Sagal Writes A Book About Running

The avid runner and author of The Incomplete Book of Running moonlights as Peter Sagal, host of NPR's Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me! Kyle Cassidy hide caption

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Not His Job: 'Wait Wait' Host Peter Sagal Writes A Book About Running

He's the voice of NPR's comedy news quiz. He has also run a marathon in under 3:10. And now he has collected his thoughts about his avocation in The Incomplete Book of Running.

Not His Job: 'Wait Wait' Host Peter Sagal Writes A Book About Running

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Do 'Childish Things' Include 'Lord Of The Rings'?

Commentator Peter Sagal mourns the loss of science fiction author Philip Jose Farmer. He says Farmer provided him with an important commodity when he was growing up: imaginary people. You can spend your whole life talking and playing with and beating up imaginary people. And from all accounts, many do. But Sagal also wonders if, like him, when they grow up and have to say farewell to childish things, they'll have nothing real to let go of.

Do 'Childish Things' Include 'Lord Of The Rings'?

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Peter Sagal Weighs In on Spitzer and 'Vice'

When it comes to powerful people behaving badly, Sagal says Eliot Spitzer isn't the first or the last. The host of NPR's weekly quiz show Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me is also the author of The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things (and How to Do Them).

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