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In A New Memoir, Maya Angelou Recalls How A ‘Lady’ Became ‘Mom’
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‘Dirt Candy’: A Visual Veggie Cookbook With A Memoir Mixed In
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Paul Auster’s “Winter Journal”
Paul Auster remembers the car accident that nearly killed him and his family. It’s one of a series of brushes with death from his new book, "Winter Journal." Auster also recalls dirty fights as a child, sitting next to his mother’s lifeless body as an adult, the crumbling of his first marriage and the slow breakdown of his own body over time. Paul Auster joins us to talk about aging, death and the power of the written word.
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The Bat Segundo Show: Stephen Fry
In this wide-ranging one hour conversation with the very smart and very charming author of The Fry Chronicles, we discuss everything from language to education to British moral standards to the sounds of fax machines. And apparently, we’re the only program that had the guts to ask this noted Apple acolyte about Foxconn.
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Christopher Hitchens - Hitch-22
We talk with Christopher Hitchens about his memoir Hitch-22 and some of his more contrarian ideas.
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The ‘Blood, Bones & Butter’ Of Restaurant Work
Gabrielle Hamilton has been the chef and owner of Prune, a popular American nouveau restaurant in New York City’s East Village, since 1999. During this time, the well-known chef also earned an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Michigan, something she put to use in writing her first book (which has already reached No. 2 on the New York Times bestseller list), the aptly titled Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef.
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