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Not My Job: Sportscaster Joe Buck Gets Quizzed On Kittens And Rainbows

1:05pm November 12, 2016

When the Cubs won the World Series (remember that?) Joe Buck was the person who told the world it had happened. This week we could use a break from the news, so we'll quiz him on cute, happy things.

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In a village in southern Vietnam, a woman weaves a fishing net. By tradition, Vietnamese women make nets for their husbands.

Absolutely Gorgeous Photos Reveal The Beauty In A Hard Life

10:05am November 12, 2016

by Malaka Gharib

A Vietnamese woman looks as if she's swimming in a sea of green fire — one of many striking images from the Siena International Photo Awards.

A plaque marks the grave site of Emmett Till at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Ill. Till died in a lynching in Mississippi in 1955. A decade prior, his father, Louis Till, was hanged after being convicted of rape and murder, but writer John Edgar Wideman bel

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Emmett Till's Father Was Also Hanged: A New Book Tells His Story

8:42am November 12, 2016

by NPR Staff

A decade before his teenage son was lynched in Mississippi, Louis Till was serving overseas in World War II. Writing to Save a Life explores how Till was convicted of rape and murder and put to death.

Second-Generation Sportscaster Joe Buck: 'I Hear My Dad More In Me Now'

8:42am November 12, 2016

by NPR Staff

"I will forever be known to some people as Jack Buck's son," the announcer says. "And thank God he and I were best friends or that would drive me nuts." His new book is called Lucky Bastard.

Amy Adams stars as linguistics professor Louise Banks in the new movie Arrival, adapted from a Ted Chiang short story. The science fiction author spent five years studying linguistics before writing "Story of Your Life."

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'Arrival' Author's Approach To Science Fiction? Slow, Steady And Successful

6:41pm November 11, 2016

by Neda Ulaby

The new film is based on a short story by Ted Chiang — a 49-year-old technical writer based in Seattle. "Fiction writing is very hard for me," he explains — and so Chiang takes his time.

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'You Will Not Have My Hate' Author On Losing His Wife In Paris Terror Attacks

4:21pm November 11, 2016

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to Antoine Leiris, author of the new book, You Will Not Have My Hate, about the Paris terrorist attacks in November 2015.

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Sci-Fi Saga 'Arrival' Asks: Can Humans Learn To Speak The Language Of Aliens?

1:44pm November 11, 2016

by David Edelstein

Amy Adams plays a professor tasked with talking to eight-tentacled aliens in Denis Villeneuve's new film. Critic David Edelstein says Arrival is a strange and tantalizing puzzle.

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Franchise Rebranding

12:35pm November 11, 2016

Each team's imagined owner wants to change the name by adding one letter. So, if we said, "LensCrafters bought this Texas hockey team," the answer would be "The Dallas Stares!"

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Texas Towns

12:35pm November 11, 2016

Texas is the second largest state in the Union, so there's bound to be a unique town name here and there. Guess which town is fake in this Texan trivia game.

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Mystery Guest

12:35pm November 11, 2016

Mary Walker is kiiiind of a big deal — find out why when host Ophira Eisenberg and Jonathan Coulton become the contestants in this Dallas installment of Mystery Guest!

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