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Seeing Impostors: When Loved Ones Suddenly Aren’t
Numerous sci-fi films since have capitalized on our fear of being surrounded by duplicates — replicas who look just like our loved ones but are not. And while there have so far been no confirmed cases of a human being replaced by an alien or any other life-form, the feeling that your loved one has been replaced by someone else can be very real.
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BBC World Book Club: Toni Morrison Reads From and Discusses Beloved
In front of an audience at the South Bank Arts Centre, London, Harriett Gilbert talks to Toni Morrison about her prize-winning book Beloved.
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Mary Gaitskill | Don’t Cry: Stories
The stories in Don’t Cry share the psychological intensity and dramatic denouement of her earlier collection, Bad Behavior. Michiko Kakutani, writing for the New York Times, remarks, ”Gaitskill writes with such authority, such radar-perfect detail, that she is able to make even the most extreme situations seem real.” Gaitskill’s previous books include the National Book Award-nominated novel Veronica and the PEN/Faulkner Award-nominated story collection Because They Wanted To; her stories often appear in the New Yorker, Harper’s, and The Best American Short Stories series.
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Seven Days: Jobless in Stoke 26 Feb 09 from File on 4
In one day in January, Stoke-On-Trent lost over 1,000 jobs. It may be one of the few remaining centres of British manufacturing. but the area has been in declined for several years. Now Wedgwood and JCB - key employers in the area - have been hit and plans for regeneration are threatened. Jenny Cuffe spends a week in the Potteries, meets the family-of-three who all lost their job on the same day and the company boss who, with his staff is already on a four day week, is desperate to secure new orders.
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Citizen Garden Episode 11: Whither Magnolia?
This week Chris and Larry discuss Ma.gnolia’s data loss, what is has meant for the service and in the community, and what may be coming in the future.
From: http://citizengarden.com/2009/02/15/episode-11-whither-magnolia/
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The New Yorker Fiction - James Salter’s “Last Night”
Thomas McGuane reads James Salter’s short story “Last Night,” and discusses it with The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman.
Read the short story here:
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2002/11/18/021118fi_fiction