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NPR's A Martinez speaks with CBS News correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti about his new book, "TORCHED: How a City was Left to Burn, and the Olympic Rush to Rebuild L.A."
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Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer is out with a new novel, Villa Coco, based on the delights and surprises of a decade living as an American outsider in Italy.
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Three Vietnam War veterans are suing to stop President Trump from building an arch just steps from Arlington National Cemetery, where 400,000 service members, veterans and their relatives are buried.
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O'Connor says one of the best bits of acting advice he ever received came late one night while filming Steven Spielberg's summer blockbuster — never mind that the text was meant for Spielberg's wife.
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Lawrence Kasdan tells Martin Short's story with full access and an easy intimacy, while Morgan Neville's portrait of SNL creator Lorne Michaels relies on the insights of friends and collaborators.
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Designed as a placeholder for work-in-progress documents, those quasi-Latin words now appear on mugs, tote bags and T-shirts.
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Groundbreaking science fiction writer Octavia Butler wrote her first 10 novels on a powder blue manual typewriter, now an artifact in the Smithsonian Institution's collection.
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More and more people are going back to buying higher-quality heritage denim.
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Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil writes about the ascent of the first grunge band to sign with a major label and the death of lead singer Chris Cornell in his memoir, "A Screaming Life."
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NPR's Ailsa Chang chats with author Dave Eggers about his new novel Contrapposto.
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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with actress Laverne Cox about her new memoir Transcendent.
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Musgraves' album Middle of Nowhere has the dramatic detail of good fiction. The same is true of Gary Stewart: I Am From the Honky-Tonks, Jimmy McDonough's portrait of a gifted but tragic performer.
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Comedian Jeff Foxworthy has a new stand-up special on Fox Nation called The Joke's on Me — and it might just be his last. He discusses what makes his show unique with NPR's A Martínez.
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Michel Martin speaks with sports journalist Albert Samaha about Game 3 of the NBA Finals and New York City's response to having President Trump in attendance.