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The Battle For Dreamland, Revisited In 'Nemo'

12:53pm October 29, 2014

by Etelka Lehoczky

A lavishly produced new tribute to Winsor McCay's Little Nemo comics gathers dozens of today's artists to revisit Slumberland. Critic Etelka Lehoczky says the book is beautiful but unchallenging.

Amy Poehler plays Leslie Knope on Parks and Recreation, which will air its final season next year. Poehler says, "It's a privilege in television to be able to have a proper goodbye."

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A Candid Memoir From Comedian Amy Poehler? 'Yes Please'

10:23am October 29, 2014

Poehler joins Fresh Air's Terry Gross to talk about fighting the body image "demon," being a "world-class snooper" and how she was once told that she had a "great face for wigs."

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Book Review: 'Belzhar' By Meg Wolitzer

6:30pm October 28, 2014

Novelist Gabrielle Zelvin reviews Meg Wolitzer's new young adult book, Belzhar.

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W.H. Auden at the 92nd Street Y Poetry Center in 1966.

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75 Years Of 'Colossal Poets' And Live Literature At NYC's 92nd Street Y

12:58pm October 28, 2014

by Tom Vitale

Writer Cynthia Ozick attended readings at the Y in the 1950s. "You saw these icons standing in a blaze of brilliant spotlight," she says, "and you felt that you were at the crux of all civilization."

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Karen Russell's novel Swamplandia! was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2012.

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Book News: 2 Popular Books May Be Coming To TV

10:26am October 28, 2014

by Colin Dwyer

Ann Leckie's sci-fi epic Ancillary Justice and Karen Russell's St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves have been optioned for TV. Meanwhile, a long-lost Malcolm Lowry novel sees publication.

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'Slow Regard' Is A Riddle, Wrapped In A Mystery, Living In An Underground Tunnel

7:03am October 28, 2014

by Jason Heller

Patrick Rothfuss' new novella is a dreamy flight of fantasy that follows a secondary character in his vast Kingkiller Chronicle: Auri, a quiet young woman living in a sprawling, secret tunnel network.

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Book Review: 'Nora Webster' by Colm Toibin

6:25pm October 27, 2014

by Alan Cheuse

Alan Cheuse reviews a new novel by Colm Toibin, Nora Webster.

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The Secret History of Wonder Woman cover

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The Man Behind Wonder Woman Was Inspired By Both Suffragists And Centerfolds

3:45pm October 27, 2014

Wonder Woman's creator, William Moulton Marston, had a secret life: He had a wife and a mistress and fathered children with both of them. Jill Lepore explains in The Secret History of Wonder Woman.

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Dylan Thomas, seen here in 1944, died less than a decade later while on tour in New York City.

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Book News: Happy 100th Birthday, Dylan Thomas

3:00pm October 27, 2014

by Colin Dwyer

Born on Oct. 27, 1914, the Welsh poet died at 39. But his writing lives on, in his readers' memory and in the performances marking his birth today. Also: a forecast of books to come.

After The Blackwater Convictions, A Book On Iraq's Nightmarish Reality

8:58am October 27, 2014

by Brian Castner

Four former Blackwater guards were found guilty last week in connection with a fatal shooting in 2007. Author Brian Castner recommends a book on the toll violence has taken on Iraq.

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