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Writer Jackie Wang's debut poetry collection is called The Sunflower Cast A Spell To Save Us From The Void.

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With Sunflowers As Her Guide, Poet Tunes In To Dream Life For Debut Collection

6:08am February 02, 2021

by Jeevika Verma

Poet Jackie Wang's collection is a surrealist expression of how social processes and traumas show up in our dreams and how we can better understand ourselves by tuning in to them.

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Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration, by Reuben Jonathan Miller

'Halfway Home' Makes Case That The Formerly Incarcerated Are Never Truly Free

5:00am February 02, 2021

by Ericka Taylor

Sociologist, criminologist, and former jail chaplain Reuben Jonathan Miller says "no other marginalized group ... experience[s] [the] profound level of legal exclusion" that those once imprisoned do.

After Saved by the Bell, Dustin Diamond made many appearances on reality TV shows, such as Celebrity Big Brother.

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'Saved By The Bell' Star Dustin Diamond Dead At 44

9:36pm February 01, 2021

by Andrew Limbong

Dustin Diamond played the awkward sidekick Screech in the hit sitcom. He died Monday of cancer, after having been diagnosed three weeks ago.

In 2018, actress Evan Rachel Wood testified before a House Judiciary subcommittee about being sexually assaulted.

Evan Rachel Wood Names Marilyn Manson As Abuser

4:24pm February 01, 2021

by Andrew Limbong

The Westworld actor alleged that Brian Warner, better known as industrial-rock musician Marilyn Manson, was her abuser, naming him for the first time in a statement posted to Instagram.

Ben Harper And Mom Ellen Reflect On A Lifetime Immersed In A Folk Music 'Wonderland'

1:30pm February 01, 2021

by Terry Gross

Ellen and Ben Harper both grew up in the Folk Music Center in Claremont Calif., which Ellen's parents founded in 1958. They join Fresh Air to discuss Ellen's new memoir, Always a Song.

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Singer Tony Bennett performing at the Royal Albert Hall in London in 2007.

Tony Bennett Has Alzheimer's Disease

12:07pm February 01, 2021

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

In a profile of the iconic 94-year-old singer for AARP The Magazine, Bennett's wife says he was diagnosed in 2016. While the disease progressed, he recorded a new album of duets with Lady Gaga.

We Came, We Saw, We Left: A Family Gap Year, by Charles Wheelan

'We Came, We Saw, We Left' Takes Us On One Family's Gap Year Adventure

6:10pm January 31, 2021

by Carson Vaughan

Dartmouth's Charles Wheelan, author of Naked Economics, writes about his nine-month globetrot in 2016 with his wife and their teenagers — offering a refreshing escape during these isolating times.

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9-Year-Old Boy Starts His Own Newspaper To Help Local Food Banks

9:34am January 31, 2021

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks nine-year-old Cooper Nelson of Loveland, Colo., about how he raised money for local food banks by starting an online subscription news site.

"Young people often have this desire to try to make their life interesting," says actor, author and director Ethan Hawke. "Life is so interesting all by itself. You do not have to try to goose life." He's pictured above in Paris on Nov. 25, 2019.

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Actor And Author Ethan Hawke: Writing 'Forces You To Think Through Things'

8:00am January 31, 2021

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

Hawke's latest novel is called A Bright Ray of Darkness. It's about a famous young actor in a crumbling marriage who immerses himself in a Broadway production of Shakespeare's Henry IV.

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White House press secretary Jen Psaki speaks during a news briefing on Jan. 28 in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House.

Not My Job: We Quiz White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki On Swimming Pools

10:12am January 30, 2021

Psaki deals with the press pool all day, but what does she know about swimming pools? We've invited her to play a game called "Take a dip in this pool." Three questions about pools in politics.