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What’s On TV This Fall? The Networks Roll Out Their New Shows

This was the week of the broadcast network “upfront” presentations, which are the splashy ads for new programming that networks

West Meets Midwest In Tom Drury’s Quirky ‘Pacific’

There are novels you read to find out what happens next, and novels you read to linger in the moment.

Easy Rawlins Is Alive, Or Is He?

I’ve been following Easy Rawlins since reading Devil in a Blue Dress in the ’90s. That’s a lot of time

Bringing Back Butterscotch

Butterscotch is going through something of a revival. So much so, that two Kitchen Window regular contributors wanted to write

Gerwig, Baumbach Poke At Post-College Pangs

In the film Frances Ha, Greta Gerwig stars as the title character, a 27-year-old living a good but not particularly

Author Neil Gaiman On Making ‘Good Art’

A year ago, author Neil Gaiman told the graduating class at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts that life is sometimes

Why Angelina Jolie’s Op-Ed Matters

Pop culture does not mean celebrity culture; I have perhaps said this more often than anyone you’re going to meet.

Black In America: A Story Rendered In Gray Scale

American literature has plenty of coming-of-age novels. What we need more of, judging by the strengths of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s

Literary Werewolf Tale ‘Red Moon’ Sheds A Dim Light

One need pick up on only a hint of the zeitgeist to know that monsters once worried that their careers

Book News: Amazon Debuts Its Virtual Currency

The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly. Amazon debuted a virtual currency called “Amazon Coins”

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Living on Earth with Steve Curwood is the weekly environmental news and information program distributed by Public Radio International.

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On Being engages listeners across the spectrum of belief and non-belief in conversation about life's deepest questions. From autism to the ethics of torture, Krista and her guests reach beyond the headlines to probe faith and meaning, ethics and new ways of being, amidst the political, ecological, economic, cultural and technological shifts that define 21st century life.

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