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Eleanor Roosevelt's advice column — "If You Ask Me" — ran from 1941, when she was still first lady, to her death in 1962. She's shown in October 1957.

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What Would Eleanor Do? 'If You Ask Me' Revisits Roosevelt's Advice Columns

7:47pm October 17, 2018

by Maureen Corrigan

For 20 years, Roosevelt answered reader questions on topics monumental, mundane and everywhere in between. A new book presents a selection of her essential advice and practical wisdom.

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To 'Make Ink' You Just Need To Look Down Around Your Feet

6:25pm October 17, 2018

NPR's Ari Shapiro explores the city of Washington, D.C., with artist Jason Logan, and author of Make Ink: A Forager's Guide to Natural Inkmaking, to urban forage for materials to make ink.

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The animal people in BoJack Horseman are the creation of illustrator and cartoonist Lisa Hanawalt. The bitterness, isolation, melancholy and cynicism are "my half of the equation," says show creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg.

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Don't Be Fooled By The Talking Horse — 'BoJack' Is A Sadness 'Sneak Attack'

4:20pm October 17, 2018

by Terry Gross

BoJack is a former sitcom star struggling with depression and addiction. Creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg says part of the pitch for the animated show was, "What's Mister Ed like behind the scenes?"

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Alicia Goranson and Sara Gilbert play Becky and Darlene on ABC's The Conners.

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Without Roseanne, 'The Conners' Go On

11:14am October 17, 2018

by Linda Holmes

The first episode of the post-Roseanne era of the Roseanne revival struggled to make its jokes land, but it proved that there's plenty of story there to make a good show.

Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy (1945-1975), by Max Hastings

'Vietnam' Takes On All Sides With A Critical Gaze

10:02am October 17, 2018

by Tom Bowman

While historian Max Hastings may break no new ground in his tome, it's how he crafts his story with color, detail and pathos that makes it great — and likely to become the standard on the war.

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'Heavy' Brilliantly Renders The Struggle To Become Fully Realized

9:31am October 17, 2018

by Martha Anne Toll

The book is at once a paean to the Deep South, a condemnation of our fat-averse culture, and a beautiful memoir of being black, bookish, and part of a family that's as challenging as it is grounding.

In Jonah Hill's directing debut Mid90s, Stevie (Sunny Suljic, left) and Ray (Na-kel Smith) come of age among an LA skateboarding crew.

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It Wasn't Cool To Care In The 'Mid90s' — But Jonah Hill Does

8:35am October 17, 2018

by Rachel Martin

In Hill's directorial debut, a 13-year-old boy from a troubled home finds his tribe through skateboarding. "It really was an ethic and aesthetic for me that I carry with me to this day," Hill says.

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'The Republican Club' Painter Andy Thomas On How His Work Ended Up In The White House

6:14pm October 16, 2018

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Andy Thomas, the creator of "The Republican Club" — a painting that was seen hanging in the White House on Sunday's 60 Minutes.

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'Hey, Kiddo' Aims To Help Kids With Addicted Parents Feel Less Alone

3:45pm October 16, 2018

by Terry Gross

Jarrett J. Krosoczka was raised by his grandparents. The author and illustrator says he got a lot of practice telling stories as a kid — "making up excuses for where my biological parents were."

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Sophie Calle, at a private concert by Pharrell Williams in Paris on May 26, 2014. Pharrell contributed to the album Souris Calle, in tribute to Sophie Calle's dead cat.

Bono, Pharrell, Laurie Anderson And More Memorialize A... Cat

2:22pm October 16, 2018

by Andrew Flanagan

French artist Sophie Calle's cat died in 2014. To mourn him, Calle asked dozens of musicians — including Michael Stipe, The National and Jarvis Cocker — to memorialize him.