The Movie Katie Aselton Has ‘Seen A Million Times’
The weekends on All Things Considered series Movies I’ve Seen A Million Times features filmmakers, actors, writers and directors talking …
Decade Later And Across An Ocean, A Novel Gets Its Due
Sometimes you need some distance to appreciate a classic. That was certainly the case for John Williams’ novel Stoner. When …
Ghost Ships, Murders, Bird Attacks: Stories To Keep You Awake
Ethan Rutherford is the author of The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories. I’d seen the movies before reading the stories …
Giant Renaissance Food People Descend Upon New York
It takes a lot of chutzpah to reduce one of the most powerful men on Earth to a pile of …
Ghost Words
The letter smelled of lavender and vanilla, like she couldn’t decide which perfume to use so she used both. Her …
Ten Ring Fingers
She found the first ring on a night that smelled of body odor and beer. The bar’s last customers had …
One Couple, Nearly 20 Years, All ‘Before Midnight’
In 1995, an unintended cult-classic trilogy was born with a film that centered on a simple, romantic premise. Two strangers …
Stories Of Hope Amid America’s ‘Unwinding’
According to New Yorker writer George Packer, there used to be a kind of deal among Americans — a deal …
Siblings’ Separation Haunts In ‘Kite Runner’ Author’s Latest
There was a time around 2003, before e-books and e-readers, when it seemed that everywhere you turned — in an …
Three-Minute Fiction: ‘Ten Ring Fingers’ And ‘Ghost Words’
NPR’s Bob Mondello and Susan Stamberg read excerpts of two of the best submissions for Round 11 of our short …
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