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Late Playwright, August Wilson, Nominated For Academy Awards For 'Fences'

6:00pm February 12, 2017

Constanza Romero Wilson speaks about continuing the legacy of her late husband, playwright August Wilson. His play-turned-film Fences, is nominated for several Academy Awards including Best Picture.

Versatile jazz artist Al Jarreau has died at 76.

Al Jarreau, Versatile Vocalist Who 'Played His Voice,' Dies At 76

3:33pm February 12, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

Since the legendary singer began his career in the 1960s, he won Grammys in the jazz, pop and R&B categories. Just one clue that Jarreau, who died Sunday, was impossible to categorize.

In The Flame and the Flood, you'll die. A lot. (See that wolf?) But each time, you'll learn something new.

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Reading The Game: The Flame In The Flood

10:00am February 12, 2017

by Jason Sheehan

In The Flame in the Flood, you play as a young girl surviving in a post-apocalyptic landscape, floating down a river on an improvised raft, with nothing but your wits and your faithful dog beside you.

What's Galentine's Day, you ask? It's only the greatest gift we've ever gotten from Leslie Knope, the unfailingly earnest bureaucrat at the helm of the NBC series Parks and Recreation

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Galentine's Day: Celebrating Women, Waffles, And, OK, More Waffles

9:00am February 12, 2017

by Kristen Hartke

Monday's the day to celebrate the best unofficial holiday made just for women: Galentine's Day. And for that, we thank our lady of Parks and Recreation, Leslie Knope.

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'Next Door' Neighbors Gradually Learn To Get Along In Post-Apartheid Cape Town

7:45am February 12, 2017

by NPR Staff

Yewande Omotoso's new novel follows two South African widows in their 80s: Hortensia is black, Marion is white and both are set in their ways.

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That's Me In The Spotlight, Losing My Religion

1:30pm February 11, 2017

Dear Sugar Radio is a podcast offering "radical empathy" and advice for the lost, lonely and heartsick. Today the hosts hear from a woman who's nervous to tell her parents she's no longer religious.

This is not a photo of Stephen Colbert answering the questions we planned to ask Lena Dunham, but rather, testifying before the House Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security and International Law subcommittee in September 2010. His face kind o

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Not My Job: We Ask Stephen Colbert 3 Questions Meant For Lena Dunham

12:14pm February 11, 2017

We planned to have the creator and star of HBO's Girls on the show this week, but when a snowstorm kept her from joining us, we quickly tracked down someone who didn't have any Thursday evening plans.

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Lincoln in the Bardo, by George Saunders

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'Lincoln In The Bardo' Pictures An American Saint Of Sorrow

10:58am February 11, 2017

by NPR Staff

George Saunders — acknowledged as a master of the short story — moves into novel form with Lincoln in the Bardo, a supernatural tale of President Lincoln grieving the death of his son Willie.

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As Trump Mulls Funding Cuts For The Arts, An Artist Argues Against The NEA

7:37am February 11, 2017

NPR's Scott Simon talks to David Marcus, a senior contributor to The Federalist and the artistic director of a theater company in New York City, about defunding the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Horror Tropes And Human Sadness In 'Universal Harvester'

7:00am February 11, 2017

by Carmen Maria Machado

Musician and author John Darnielle's new Universal Harvester follows three connected stories in three different eras, in an unsettling fairy tale about mysterious images that appear on video tapes.