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Rebuilding A Broken Family 'In Plain Sight'

6:23pm November 03, 2014

by Alan Cheuse

Somali author Nuruddin Farah's new novel follows a glamorous photographer who takes in her brother's children after he dies in a terrorist bombing. Reviewer Alan Cheuse calls it complex yet uplifting.

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Wolfe's Neck Woods State Park, near Freeport, Maine.

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The Luxury Of Solitude

5:16pm November 03, 2014

by Linda Holmes

Road trips are a good time to remember that cultural mistrust of solitude can mask its profound benefits.

Frances McDormand, left, stars with Richard Jenkins, right and Devin McKenzie Druid in HBO's Olive Kitteridge.

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HBO's 'Olive Kitteridge' May Be The Best Depiction Of Marriage On TV

4:44pm November 03, 2014

by Eric Deggans

HBO's miniseries, starring Frances McDormand as a sharp-tongued wife, concludes tonight. NPR TV critic Eric Deggans calls it an unsparing, detailed look at the most quietly troubled marriage on TV.

Brothers Tom (left) and Ray Magliozzi pose under a car hood in Boston. The comic duo hosted NPR's Car Talk for a quarter of a century before retiring in 2012. Since then, the show has been heard in reruns. Tom has died at age 77.

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'Car Talk' Co-Host Tom Magliozzi Dies At 77

4:29pm November 03, 2014

by Scott Neuman

As half of the wisecracking NPR radio show, Tom Magliozzi made us laugh at our car problems. He and his brother, Ray, also taught us how things work.

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Election Night Eating: A Tasting Menu For What's At Stake

1:56pm November 03, 2014

by The Salt Staff

NPR's politics team is hosting an election night party Tuesday. But you can't have a party without good grub. So we've put together a menu inspired by the politics in play.

This coffee drinker prepares to sprinkle some of what very well may be, in the words of one character, a "party in a packet."

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Book News: To Make This E-Book Sweeter, Just Add Product Placement

9:43am November 03, 2014

by Colin Dwyer

Makers of Sweet'N Low invested big bucks to appear in Find Me I'm Yours. But that's not the only noteworthy novel out this week: Denis Johnson, Ha Jin, Will Self and Richard Ford all have new books.

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Twin City City Stage Presents "A Time to Kill"

8:38am November 03, 2014

by David Ford

A tale of rape, murder, and the pursuit of justice is told in Twin City Stage's newest production of John Grisham's A Time To Kill.

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A 19th Century Novel Explains Quantitative Easing

6:36pm November 02, 2014

by John Lanchester

This week, the Federal Reserve ended the quantitative easing program. Author John Lanchester says Anthony Trollope's 19th century novel The Way We Live Now clarifies the current financial situation.

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'Our Secret Life': Watching The Quirky Criterion Classics

5:13pm November 02, 2014

J.M. Tyree and Michael McGriff spent a year watching the entire Criterion Collection of classic films. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to them about their new book, Our Secret Life in the Movies.

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Lurking behind this giant pink bow may be a ruthless executive who's decided on a policy of corporate transparency.

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Why Corporate Executives Talk About 'Opening Their Kimonos'

4:41pm November 02, 2014

by Steve Haruch

The phrase has become a term of art in business jargon, used anytime a company discloses insider information. How did this item of clothing achieve such currency in such an unexpected context?