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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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Billies Seen

12:35pm November 11, 2016

In this music game, Jonathan Coulton reworks Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" to be about other people--both real and fictional--named Billie.

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I Love The 1880s

12:35pm November 11, 2016

Ophira and Jonathan dig deep into Dallas history with this trivia game about the rocking 1880s.

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Brooklyn Decker with hosts Ophira Eisenberg and Johnathan Coulton at the Majestic Theater in Dallas, Texas.

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Brooklyn Decker: Two Truths And A Lie, Lie, Lie

12:35pm November 11, 2016

We bring some Brooklyn to our Dallas roadshow with VIP Brooklyn Decker. Decker talks about acting in the Netflix series Grace and Frankie, then plays a game of two truths and a lie—boy band edition!

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