Snow Cones Fresh From The Sky: Listeners Share Recipes
NPR's Rachel Martin asks professor Staci Simonich if it's okay to eat snow. Also, our listeners called in with some of their favorite recipes using freshly fallen snow.
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Finnish Authors Heat Up The Speculative Fiction World
Finland hosts the World Science Fiction Convention in 2017 — but if you can't make it to Helsinki, hit the library: more and more Finnish speculative fiction authors are getting English translations.
Young Artists Find Home And Healing At Pittsburgh Art House
Whenever artist Vanessa German worked on her porch, kids asked if they could help. Now, in a neighborhood struggling with poverty and crime, she's created a place where they can make art of their own.
Passion And Obsession En Pointe In 'Girl Through Glass'
Author Sari Wilson's new novel follows a young dancer in New York City in the 1970s, and a grown professor of dance years later — both of whom find their lives upended by dangerous relationships.
Death Memoirs: Why The Grave Subject Sells So Well
Why do we love to read about dying? NPR's Rachel Martin asks critic Michelle Dean about the enduring popularity of books like "The Last Lecture" and "Tuesdays with Morrie."
'The Road To Little Dribbling' Is A (Mostly) Pleasant Journey
Bill Bryson follows up his classic travelogue Notes From A Small Island 20 years later — older, grayer, and definitely crankier. It's a charming trip, though marred by a little too much grumpiness.
Groucho Marx Spared No One — And His Biographer Isn't Pulling Punches, Either
Lee Siegel, author of Groucho Marx: The Comedy of Existence, wanted his biography to uncover the real man behind the iconic mustache. What Siegel found, he says, was "a thoroughgoing misanthrope."
In First Novel, Former Hostage Ingrid Betancourt Tells A Story Of Captivity
The Blue Line follows a woman who is detained during Argentina's Dirty War. Betancourt says writing the novel helped her process the years she spent as a captive of Colombian revolutionaries.
From Streets To Stage, Two Dance Worlds See Harmonization And Chaos
When a San Francisco-based choreographer decided to take turf dancers off of the streets and trains of Oakland and put them on stage with ballet dancers, chaos ensued. Until she let them all improv together.
Not My Job: We Quiz The U.S. Secretary Of Labor On Going Into Labor
It's a little hard to play Not My Job this week because technically Thomas Perez's job is all the jobs.