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Writing On The Sly, Nathaniel Rich's Secret Debut

NPR Books - Sat, 10/05/2013 - 08:13

It took over five years for Nathaniel Rich to finish his first novel — maybe because he was writing The Mayor's Tongue secretly, first as a college student, and then while writing film criticism during the day.

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Letter: Lehman's Accounting Tricks Possibly Illegal

NPR Top Stories - 3 hours 53 min ago

A Lehman Brothers whistleblower warned his bosses that accounting gimmicks the bank used before its collapse may have been illegal, his lawyer said Friday.

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Pope Blasts Irish Bishops, Orders Probe

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Pope Benedict XVI rebuked Irish bishops Saturday for "grave errors of judgment" in handling clerical sex abuse and ordered a Vatican investigation into the Irish church to wipe out the scourge.

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Cornell, Missouri, Ga. Tech Extend NCAA Upset Trend

NPR Top Stories - Fri, 03/19/2010 - 21:42

The NCAA men's basketball tournament featured more surprises as first-round play continued Friday. Cornell, Missouri and Georgia Tech were all underdog winners.

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New Basic Training Hardens 'Softer Generation'

NPR Top Stories - Fri, 03/19/2010 - 21:00

The U.S. Army is overhauling its basic training program for the first time in 30 years. Part of the shift is intended to train a new generation of soldiers whose experience with fighting is usually limited to video games.

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Nonfiction Chronicle - Books by Alex Lemon, Daniel Menaker, C. S. Manegold and Malcolm Jones

New York Times Book Review - Fri, 03/19/2010 - 17:01
Memoirs of surviving brain surgery and a difficult childhood, a primer on the art of conversation and a history of a northern slave estate.

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Book Review | 'Keeping the Feast: One Couple’s Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy,' by Paula Butturini

New York Times Book Review - Fri, 03/19/2010 - 16:51
A memoir of how cooking helped save the marriage of Paula Butturini and her husband, reporters traumatized by war.

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Book Review | 'The Harvard Psychedelic Club,' by Don Lattin

New York Times Book Review - Fri, 03/19/2010 - 16:49
A group portrait of Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith and Andrew Weil and their experiments with hallucinogens in the early 1960s.

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Book Review | 'The Genius in All of Us,' by David Shenk

New York Times Book Review - Fri, 03/19/2010 - 16:47
David Shenk argues that that discipline, not giftedness, is vital to greatness.

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Book Review | 'On the Brink,' by Henry M. Paulson Jr.

New York Times Book Review - Fri, 03/19/2010 - 16:44
Henry M. Paulson’s account of his tumultuous term as George W. Bush’s last Treasury secretary.

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Book Review | 'Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History,' by David Aaronovitch

New York Times Book Review - Fri, 03/19/2010 - 16:42
Paranoia strikes deep in this journalist’s survey of conspiracy theories in Western politics.

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Book Review | 'A Week in December,' by Sebastian Faulks

New York Times Book Review - Fri, 03/19/2010 - 16:40
This ambitious, angry novel’s capitalist is more reliably loathsome than its jihadist.

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Book Review | 'The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them,' by Elif Batuman

New York Times Book Review - Fri, 03/19/2010 - 16:36
An entertaining memoir-cum-travelogue of a grad student’s improbable education in Russian language and literature.

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Essay: The Making of the President, Then and Now

New York Times Book Review - Fri, 03/19/2010 - 16:35
The great campaign books of the past are about more than the back-room drama that dominates recent releases.

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Paperback Row

New York Times Book Review - Fri, 03/19/2010 - 16:18
Paperback books of particular interest.

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Book Review | 'Blooms of Darkness,' by Aharon Appelfeld

New York Times Book Review - Fri, 03/19/2010 - 15:55
In this novel with echoes of Anne Frank’s diary, a Jewish child is hidden in a brothel during the Holocaust.

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Judge Says Ground Zero Settlement Is 'Not Enough'

NPR Top Stories - Fri, 03/19/2010 - 14:02

U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein ripped into the $657 million deal to compensate workers sickened by ash and dust from the collapsed World Trade Center. He said the figure was too low and workers did not have enough time to decide whether to accept the deal. "I will not preside over a settlement that is based on fear or ignorance," he said.

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Cartoon Furor Met With Muted Response In Sweden

NPR Top Stories - Fri, 03/19/2010 - 13:30

Swedish artist Lars Vilks has lived with a $100,000 bounty on his head since 2007 for a drawing he made depicting the Prophet Muhammad. But unlike the angry protest that erupted in 2005 after similar cartoons were published in Denmark, Swedes have remained largely silent on the controversy.

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Haiti Quake 'Orphans' Reunited With Parents

NPR Top Stories - Fri, 03/19/2010 - 13:18

All of the 33 children that U.S. missionaries tried to take out of Haiti after the deadly January earthquake have been returned to their parents. But at least one mother says that she would consider giving up her children for a better life elsewhere than subject them to the desperate living conditions in Haiti.

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