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#NPRpoetry Moment: Of Spirit And Bone

7:24pm April 17, 2016

In this installment of All Things Considered's National Poetry Month series, we hear two poems from listeners — meditations on matter and soul — and a note from a teacher who's gotten involved, too.

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Blake Jenner, at left, plays Jake in Everybody Wants Some!!, but he's also a stand-in for director Richard Linklater.

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Richard Linklater Goes To College — 22 Years Later — In 'Everybody Wants Some!!'

4:27pm April 17, 2016

by NPR Staff

The director's new film follows a young baseball player through his first days of college; it's kind of an informal sequel to Linklater's 1993 last-days-of-high-school hit Dazed and Confused.

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Alex Trebek has appeared in nearly 7,000 episodes of Jeopardy! since he began hosting the show in 1984.

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This Is The Length Of Alex Trebek's Game Show Tenure — What Is 50 Years?

10:22am April 17, 2016

by NPR Staff

The longtime Jeopardy! host got his start in 1966 on a show for Canadian high schoolers called Reach for the Top. Fifty years in, he says spending time with smart people is the best part of his job.

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You Can Go Home Again: The Transformative Joy Of Rereading

10:00am April 17, 2016

by Juan Vidal

Returning to a book you've read before can feel like getting a drink with an old friend. But even though the book's the same, you yourself may have changed — and that's what makes rereading so rich.

3 Years After Boston Marathon Bombing, The Story Of A Wrongly Accused Student

8:28am April 17, 2016

by Anders Kelto

Brown University student Sunil Tripathi disappeared just before the Boston Marathon bombing, and was accused of being involved in the attack. A new documentary looks at the effects of the allegation.

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What If 'Pride And Prejudice' Was Set In Cincinnati?

8:28am April 17, 2016

by NPR Staff

In Eligible, Curtis Sittenfeld's retelling of the classic, Mr. Bingley is a reality TV star and Jane Bennet is a yoga teacher.

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Tribeca Film Festival Kicks Off, Flaunting More Than Movies

8:06am April 17, 2016

The Tribeca Film festival starts this week and it's going to showcase a lot more than films.

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Horrors Pile Up Quietly In 'The Other Slavery'

6:18am April 17, 2016

by Genevieve Valentine

Andrés Reséndez' new book is a careful and scholarly examination of the enslavement of indigenous people in the Americas. It lays bare a shameful chapter of history, with a clear line to the present.

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'Barbershop' Returns, With Shears In Hand And New Twists In Mind

5:28pm April 16, 2016

The latest in the Barbershop movie franchise is out this weekend. Screenwriter Tracy Oliver, who co-wrote the screenplay, talks with NPR's Michel Martin.

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#NPRpoetry Moment: What Do Toddlers And Politicians Have In Common?

5:14pm April 16, 2016

All Things Considered is celebrating National Poetry Month by inviting listeners to submit their poems on Twitter with the hashtag #NPRpoetry. This time around, we get some pointed political humor.