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Lurid And Ludicrous, 'Shock SuspenStories' Will Make Your Eyes Pop

7:00am March 30, 2016

by Etelka Lehoczky

A new collection reprints the first six issues of EC Comics' classic 1950s pulp horror series. Packed with gore and goofiness, these may, in fact, be the comics your mother warned you about.

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'Girls & Sex' And The Importance Of Talking To Young Women About Pleasure

2:59pm March 29, 2016

Author Peggy Orenstein says that when it comes to sexuality, girls hear that "they're supposed to be sexy, they're supposed to perform sexually for boys, but ... their sexual pleasure is unspoken."

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Murder And Crows In 'Taxidermist's Daughter'

7:00am March 29, 2016

by Jean Zimmerman

Kate Mosse's new gothic thriller uses the concept of taxidermy as a clever skeleton on which to hang its scares. It's a dark and tangled tale that's definitely not for the squeamish.

Adam Hochschild is a cofounder of Mother Jones. His previous books include To End All Wars and King Leopold's Ghost.

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In Many Ways, Author Says, Spanish Civil War Was 'The First Battle Of WWII'

4:06pm March 28, 2016

According to Adam Hochschild, about 2,800 Americans fought in the Spanish Civil War, and some were bombed by Nazis years before the U.S. entered World War II. His new book is Spain in Our Hearts.

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Writer Jim Harrison set his stories in the American wilderness. "I like outside better than inside," he said.

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Jim Harrison, 'Legends Of The Fall' Author, Dies At 78

8:37am March 28, 2016

by Tom Vitale

The author — who wrote more than three dozen books, including the novels Dalva and True North and many collections of poetry — found freedom in the outdoors. He died Saturday in Patagonia, Ariz.

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'Dark Territory' Examines The Long History Of Cyber War

5:35pm March 27, 2016

So many things in our lives are plugged into networks vulnerable to hacking. Fred Kaplan's new book Dark Territory looks at how this came to be and what it means for the future.

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Reading Between Worlds With Griffin And Sabine

7:00am March 27, 2016

by Amal El-Mohtar

Nick Bantock returns to his epistolary lovers in a new volume, The Pharos Gate. In an age of instantaneous digital communication, Griffin and Sabine celebrate the pleasures of paper and ink.

Former NBA player and now broadcaster, Bill Walton, plays the drums with the University of Utah band before the game between the Arizona Wildcats and the Utah Utes on February 27, 2016.

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How Basketball Great Bill Walton Thrived In A Life Of Limitations

12:16pm March 26, 2016

Bill Walton has written a memoir: "Back from the Dead." NPR's Scott Simon speaks with him about his childhood, basketball career and The Grateful Dead.

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Mr. Tanner (No. 21) by James Edward Deeds Jr.

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With Just Pencil And Paper, A Patient Found Escape Inside State Hospital No. 3

7:54am March 26, 2016

by NPR Staff

In 1970, a teenager found a hand-made album in a pile of trash. Inside were 283 extraordinary drawings made on mental hospital stationary. The Electric Pencil tells the artist's story.

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This 'Jane' Is Eyre's Steely Sister

7:06am March 26, 2016

by Bethanne Patrick

Lyndsay Faye's new Jane Steele reimagines the classic Victorian heroine as a killer with a heart of gold, who refuses to settle for her historical lot and strikes out at men who try to abuse her.