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Members Of The 2018 National Recording Registry Class Announced

9:05am March 20, 2019

The Library of Congress released its annual list of 25 recordings worthy of preservation because of their cultural, historic or aesthetic importance to the nation's recorded sound heritage.

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The writer Lawrence Ferlinghetti, pictured here in Berlin in 2004, will turn 100 years old this weekend.

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A Lost 'Little Boy' Nears 100: Poet And Publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti

5:03am March 20, 2019

by Tom Vitale

The Beat Generation icon and owner of City Lights bookstore and press in San Francisco is still writing. He celebrates his centennial March 24, and his new autobiographical novel is out now.

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Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump walk on the South Lawn of the White House to board Marine One on their way to the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland on June 1, 2018.

'Kushner, Inc.' Adds Little To The Canon On Jared And Ivanka

5:37pm March 19, 2019

by Annalisa Quinn

Other journalists have previously reported many of the serious claims presented in Vicky Ward's book; her own yields generally feel meager, wrapping even the smallest scoops in a fog of insinuation.

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'The New Me' Is Meh About Ambition And Adulthood

5:11pm March 19, 2019

by Ailsa Chang

Halle Butler's new novel explores what it's like to work in a dead-end office job. Her satirical story focuses on a 30-year-old woman named Millie who wanders from temp job to temp job.

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For March, 3 Romances That Fight For Love

4:39pm March 19, 2019

by Maya Rodale

True love finds a way amid food trucks, ice skates and ... knife throwing? In other words, March is just another month in Romancelandia, and we've got three stories of people fighting hard for love.

A chimpanzee hugs her newborn at Burgers' Zoo in Arnhem, Netherlands, in 2010. Over the course of his long career, primatologist Frans de Waal has become convinced that primates and other animals express emotions similar to human emotions.

Sex, Empathy, Jealousy: How Emotions And Behavior Of Other Primates Mirror Our Own

4:03pm March 19, 2019

by Terry Gross

Primatologist Frans de Waal believes that the way humans experience emotion is not unique: "That's a spectrum of behavior that we have, and the same thing is true for many other species."

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Marcelo Gleiser, 60, won the 2019 Templeton Prize for his work seeking the common ground between science and spirituality.

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Marcelo Gleiser Wins Templeton Prize For Quest To Confront 'Mystery Of Who We Are'

3:12pm March 19, 2019

by Colin Dwyer

The prestigious award comes with nearly $1.5 million in winnings. The physicist, who teaches at Dartmouth and has written for NPR, says he's driven by the "many questions we still have no clue about."

Cover detail from Zora and Langston, by Yuval Taylor

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Road Trip With 'Zora And Langston' In This Real-Life Literary Adventure

2:22pm March 19, 2019

by Maureen Corrigan

Squeeze into the rumble seat — Yuval Taylor brings readers along on a 1927 summer road trip taken by Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes. Their friendship turned out to be a very bumpy ride.

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'Lot' Paints An Unforgettable Portrait Of Houston And Its People

7:00am March 19, 2019

by Michael Schaub

Bryan Washington's debut story collection brings the Texas city to life in all its struggle and imperfect glory.

Evan Thomas breaks new ground with extraordinary access to Sandra Day O'Connor, her papers, journals — and even 20 years of her husband's diary.

From Triumph To Tragedy, 'First' Tells Story Of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor

4:19pm March 18, 2019

by Nina Totenberg

First is unlike any other book written about the justice. Evan Thomas breaks new ground with extraordinary access to O'Connor, her papers, journals — and even 20 years of her husband's diary.