Growing Up Muslim And Midwestern In ‘Dervish’
In American Dervish, playwright and author Ayad Akhtar draws from his own Midwestern childhood to tell the coming-of-age story of …
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Fiction and nonfiction releases from David Brooks, Bernard Cornwell, Rosamund Lupton and Condoleezza Rice. [Copyright 2012 National Public Radio]
‘In Anatolia,’ A Murder And A Meditation Or Three
Once upon a time, long ago, I asked the late, great Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski why his Three Colors triptych …
A Secret, A Kiss: ‘The Moment’ Your Life Changed
The six-word memoir conceit grew into a popular series of books, but the editors knew it was tough to share …
Pamela Adlon: From ‘Hill’ Kid To ‘Californication’
When Pamela Adlon meets her daughters’ middle-school aged friends, she asks them nicely not to watch Californication, the show she’s …
How to Keep That New Year’s Resolution
What’s your New Year’s resolution? Whatever it is, on the next edition of The Living Room, you can hear how to keep it.
A Toast To Fresh, Festive Cocktails
I am no stranger to unnatural drinks. Pittsburgh’s Panther Hollow Inn, home bar for Carnegie Mellon students, is famed for …
The Big Bad Swap: The Problem With Replaced Music
Imagine that you pay for a copy of a movie you particularly like. You’ve loved it forever; you know it …
ABC Hacks Up ‘Work It,’ Which Dares To Ask: What’s A Step Down From ‘Wretched’?
Would that there were an adequate way to convey just how pointless, just how devoid of the barest spark of …
What’s In Store: 3 Tales Of A Terrifying Future
When I was a kid, I assumed that in the future things would get better and better until we were …
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