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The 25th Anniversary Of David Sedaris Reading 'Santaland Diaries'

4:55am December 22, 2017

by David Sedaris

Before he became a best-selling writer and humorist, David Sedaris worked as a department store elf. We bring you the 25th anniversary of David Sedaris reading from his essay "Santaland Diaries."

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library Comes To Forsyth County

4:45pm December 20, 2017

by Bethany Chafin

An expanded initiative will provide free books for young children across North Carolina.

Pop Culture Happy Hour: Our Hanukkah Special

6:01am December 20, 2017

by Linda Holmes

While you may have wrapped up your Hanukkah celebrations, we wanted to share a conversation about the role that Hanukkah plays for kids and adults, and some of the pop culture that surrounds it.

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How Battles Over Sex, Gender And Sexual Orientation 'Fractured American Politics'

1:39pm December 19, 2017

Moral Combat author R. Marie Griffith says the fight for women's suffrage and legal birth control in the early 20th century helped create a political divide in the U.S. that still exists today.

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3 Books That Capture America In Poetry

9:27am December 19, 2017

Poetry reviewer Tess Taylor shares three collections she says speak to different slices of American life in a way that reminds her of Walt Whitman.

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Bitch Planet: Triple Feature Vol. 1 By Kelly Sue DeConnick,‎ Cheryl Lynn Eaton,‎ Andrew Aydin,‎ and Conley Lyons.

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Return To 'B Planet' In this Timely New Anthology

7:00am December 19, 2017

by Etelka Lehoczky

In Bitch Planet: Triple Feature, creators Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro turn a score of talented writers and artists loose in the world of their futuristic feminist dystopia comic.

Why Teens Find The End Of The World So Appealing

4:14pm December 18, 2017

by Elissa Nadworny

Dystopian novels are all about consequences, choices and grey areas. And psychologists say that plays right into the sweet spot of the developing teenage brain.

Author Mary Higgins Clark signs copies of her book Daddy's Gone A Hunting at the Simon and Schuster office in New York in 2013.

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As She Turns 90, Suspense Still Thrills Author Mary Higgins Clark

4:01pm December 18, 2017

by Lynn Neary

Known as the "queen of suspense," Higgins Clark still publishes two books a year. She says the greatest compliment she gets is when someone tells her, "'I read your darn book till 4 in the morning.'"

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For Novelist Jennifer Egan, 'The Joy Of Writing Is Being Delivered Out Of My Life'

2:19pm December 18, 2017

by Sam Briger

"I don't use my life as inspiration," says the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. Her new book, Manhattan Beach, imagines the lives of the women who worked on the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II.

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In 'Fortress America,' Examining How Fear Crept Into American Life

6:42pm December 17, 2017

by Ray Suarez

Historian Elaine Tyler May says that since the Cold War, fear has crept into American life. Her new book, Fortress America, examines key events that shaped today's political climate.

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