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The Scariest American Stories And Guilty Pleasure FoodsStories in this episode: 1) Food writer Nigella Lawson says one of the best ways to be warm and comfortable during winter is to indulge in rich, tasty foods that some might call guilty pleasures. 2) In his new book, 'Eating Animals,' Jonathan Safran Foer grapples with the morality of meat. 3) Author Peter Straub spent two years researching the best — and scariest — American stories.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Wimpy Kids, Walmart and the Best British Writer You've Never Heard OfStories: 1) Jeff Kinney's book series centers on a smart-mouthed sad sack who just can't seem to win. 2) Walmart, Amazon and Target are cutting the price of some best-selling books. 3) 'What to Expect When You're Expected' is a tongue-in-cheek take on life in utero. 4) Novelist Jane Gardam may be the best British writer you've never heard of.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NPR Books: October 19, 2009Stories in this episode: 1) Amy Efaw's new novel, 'After,' tells the story of a girl who tries to murder her newborn baby. 2) The Institute of Noetic Sciences president realized recently she's the heroine in Brown's new novel. 3) Jeff Kinney's latest graphic novel, 'Dog Days,' gets kids — and adults — laughing.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NPR Books: October 9, 2009Stories in this episode: 1) Once the center of an obscenity trial, William S. Burroughs' novel 'Naked Lunch' chronicles heroin addiction. 2) Ex-Wife Of D.C. Sniper, Mildred Muhammad says the sniper wanted to kill her and divert suspicion to a crazed gunman in new memoir, 'I Was The Enemy.' 3) Dan Chaon's latest novel, 'Await Your Reply,' weaves together three separate narratives.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NPR Books: October 1, 2009Stories in this episode: 1) Audrey Niffenegger, the author of 'The Time Traveler's Wife' says she's attracted to themes of death and dying. 2) The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Russo recommends four fictional takes on office life. 3) In 'Read My Pins, ' Madeleine Albright, the former secretary of state reveals how she used jewelry as a diplomatic tool.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NPR Books: September 17, 2009Stories in this episode: 1) Writer John Geiger chronicles phantom presences that lead to safety in his new book, 'The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible. 2) Jon Krakauer's latest book sheds new light on the death of NFL player turned soldier Pat Tillman. 3) In Dan Brown's new novel 'The Lost Symbol,' hero Robert Langdon uncovers esoteric mysteries even as he dismisses them.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NPR Books: September 11, 2009Stories in this episode: 1) Susan Stamberg talks with linguist Deborah Tannen who interviewed 100 women (including her own big sisters) for her new book. 2) Lorrie Moore's new novel is a powerful tale of a young college student who becomes a nanny. 3) Both the beauty and the brutality of the country are captured in the memoir 'God Sleeps in Rwanda.'Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NPR Books: September 3, 2009Stories in this episode: 1) 'Dying Up Here' Chronicles Golden Age Of Stand-Up 2) Doctorow's Fictional Take On Real-Life Eccentricity 3) 'Reading Rainbow' Reaches Its Final ChapterListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NPR Books: August 20, 2009Stories in this episode: 1) Ready to become engrossed in a good book? Try these mysteries you may have missed. 2) A new interactive novel allows readers to e-mail and telephone characters from the book. 3) Tina Brown, the Daily Beast editor talks about what you need to read on the web.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NPR Books: August 13, 2009Stories in this episode: 1) Lev Grossman's new novel reads like a Harry Potter tale, but with more shades of gray. 2) Children's book author Lesley Blume recommends timeless books that both kids and parents will enjoy. 3) Fancy a cozy whodunit set in the English countryside? Don't read any of Mark Billingham's novels.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
July 30, 20091) David Balducci writes crime novels that take place in Washington, D.C.. 2) A writer for The Onion talks about his new memoir and how marrying his humor and his depression makes for an insane, dark comedy. 3) Crime writer Gabriel Cohen takes us on a tour around Brooklyn, New York pointing out sites where his characters murder and die. 4) One cookbook author says you don't need recipes as long as you know ratios. 5) Some of the best books for beach reading are the ones which tell tales a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NPR Books: July 24, 2009Stories in this episode: 1) Despite the economic downturn, one kind of story is still selling better than many other forms of adult fiction. 2) In a kind of supermarket Cinderella story, a cashier in France has become a literary sensation. 3) 'Young Woman and the Sea' shows how Gertrude Ederle's fame grew, then evaporated.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NPR Books: July 10, 2009Stories in this episode: 1) Author Colin Ellard says you can train yourself to be more conscious of your surroundings. 2) Author Jag Bhalla discusses the unique turns of phrase that different cultures use. 3) In a new book, Nick Reding describes why the working class in Oelwein, Iowa, started using meth.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NPR Books: July 16, 2009Stories in this episode: 1) The murder of wildlife activist and filmmaker Joan Root was never solved, but her life and violent death is the subject of a new book, 'Wildflower: An Extraordinary Life and Untimely Death in Africa'. 2) Writer Neil Gaiman talks with Neal Conan about "Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader."Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NPR Books: June 25, 2009Stories in this episode: 1) Retrace the strands that led to a lot of current American satire, and you end up at Harvey Kurtzman. 2) Nikita Khrushchev starred in his own travel comedy back in 1959. Peter Carlson's new book, 'K Blows Top,'documents the Communist leader's unusual tour through the United States. 3) Dean Olsher, author of 'From Square One,' weighs in on the appeal of the crossword.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NPR Books: July 2, 2009Stories in this episode: 1) 'Touch' tells of the conflicting accounts that arise after a girl is groped on a school bus. 2) Author Gigi Levangie Grazer talks about her new novel, 'Queen Takes King.' 3) 'The Photographer' is an unusual graphic novel that tells the story of a photojournalist's harrowing trip to Afghanistan.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NPR Books: June 19, 2009Stories in this episode: 1) Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro's new novel merges vampire folklore with the very modern paranoia over pandemics. 2) Looking to cozy up with some good books? Librarian Nancy Pearl has some great suggestions. 3) A multivolume dictionary five decades in the making collects the nation's linguistic treasures.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NPR Books: June 12, 2009Stories in this episode: 1) This year's selections take readers from the great outdoors to the inside of a Scrabble factory. 2) Google's new e-book plan could give the Amazon Kindle a run for its money by the end of this year. 3) Haunted by memories of failures from his youth, Robin Hemley went back for a second chance.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NPR Books: June 5, 2009Stories in this episode: Reviewer Alan Cheuse and writer Samantha Hunt offer their suggestions of books for summer. 2) The Kasper Hauser group's 'Weddings of the Times' pokes fun at formal wedding announcements. 3) For the first time, David Kaczynski has written about his relationship with the brother he admired. 4) These three books about the intensity of illicit love are meant to be savored for eternity.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NPR Books: May 22, 2009Stories in this episode: 1) As author Clinton Heylin explains, Shakespeare's sonnets were never intended for a wide audience. 2) Karl Taro Greenfeld describes growing up with his autistic brother in his book 'Boy Alone.' 3) For Jeffrey Eugenides, Saul Bellow's 1964 tale of a man on the rocks beats any dose of caffeine. 4) A novel wears an autobiography's disguise in Clive James' rereleased 'Unreliable Memoirs.'Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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