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HUD And National Book Foundation Work To Promote Reading In Public Housing

8:13am June 30, 2018

by Lynn Neary

The National Book Foundation has partnered with the Department of Housing and Urban Development on a literacy program aimed at getting books into the hands of kids and adults living in public housing.

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Looking At Photographer George Rodriguez

8:13am June 30, 2018

by Mandalit del Barco

Photographer George Rodriguez has chronicled a visual history of Los Angeles over his multidecade career. His work is being celebrated in a new book as well as his first retrospective.

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Step Away From The 'Trauma Buffet' With These 5 Beach Reads By Authors Of Color

7:00am June 30, 2018

by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Sometimes it seems like authors of color are relegated to writing about nothing but suffering, says author Silvia Moreno-Garcia. But we all need a taste of happiness — starting with these five books.

Ellison in 1977, with his beloved typewriter.

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Goodbye To Harlan Ellison, 'America's Weird Uncle'

3:36pm June 29, 2018

by Jason Sheehan

Our critic Jason Sheehan says he's a little surprised that the legendary sci-fi writer passed away peacefully at home. It should have been an attack by alien space bears, or an argument with gravity.

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Remembering Former Poet Laureate Donald Hall

2:34pm June 29, 2018

by Terry Gross

Hall, who died on Saturday, wrote about farm work and his wife, poet Jane Kenyon, in the 1993 memoir Life Work. He and Kenyon spoke to Fresh Air in 1996, and Hall was interviewed again in '02 and '12.

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Remembering Writer Harlan Ellison

5:17am June 29, 2018

by Petra Mayer

The famous, and famously cantankerous, science fiction writer Harlan Ellison has died. Over a 6-decade career, he won multiple awards for his fiction and television writing.

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Writer Harlan Ellison, seen here in 1991, died Thursday at 84.

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Harlan Ellison, Award-Winning Science Fiction Writer, Dies at 84

5:41pm June 28, 2018

by Linda Holmes

The writer of award-winning stories, as well as episodes of Star Trek, The Outer Limits and The Twilight Zone, died Thursday.

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With Gonzo Flair, A New Graphic Novel Kills Hitler

1:09pm June 28, 2018

by Etelka Lehoczky

Anthony Del Col's gung-ho tale of a convoluted plot to bump off Hitler is jam-packed with beret-wearing Resistance fighters, frosty female spies and epic car chases — plus the dictator's secret son.

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Halevi's 'Letters To My Palestinian Neighbor' Looks For Common Ground

6:22am June 28, 2018

Israeli writer Yossi Klein Halevi is determined to reach across the divide to Palestinians who share his homeland. He writes letters about faith and longing to an anonymous Palestinian neighbor.

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"Red Waters Rising" by Laura Anne Gilman

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'Red Waters Rising' Leads Old Friends Into New Trouble

7:00am June 27, 2018

by Jason Sheehan

Laura Anne Gilman winds up her Devil's West trilogy with a fascinating story of tension and friction between old friends and new enemies, marred only by some odd choices at the end.