May 2013
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How to Help Oklahoma Tornado Victims.
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Q: Do you ever read self-help? Anything you recommend?
A: I’m a self-help queen, dedicated to continuous improvement. I read books about problems I don’t have, just in case I develop obsessive-compulsive disorder or crippling phobias. Of course there’s nothing I recommend. If I ever found anything useful, I’d keep it to myself, to steal a mean advantage.
This interview with Hilary Mantel in the...
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It’s really a losing battle, a losing proposition for all of us. … The...
– Robert Hiltonsmith talks to Terry Gross about the risks of 401K retirement plans and the tricky business of saving for old age.
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Take 20 (3:02 p.m.): I’m making a meal out of drying my hands with the paper...
– Greta Gerwig on “One Scene, 42 Takes and 2 Hours In A Bathroom Stall” in which she dissects the takes it took to get the right take in the movie Frances Ha that she co-wrote with director Noah Baumbach. Her thoughts on the other 42 takes are an interesting peek inside movie-making.
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Caro has learned about Johnson’s rages, his ruthlessness, his lies, his bribes,...
– From “Robert Caro’s Big Dig” by Charles McGrath in The New York Times Magazine, April 12, 2012. Today on the show, Dave Davies talks with the man who has spent the last 37 years writing a multi-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson. The fourth volume, The Passage of Power, is out now...
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He’s my first reader and we know each other very well and, unless he thinks...
– Novelist Claire Messud tells Terry Gross about the living-working relationshipwith her husband, The New Yorker fiction critic, James Wood.
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As part of our tribute to The Office today, we excerpt an interview with Rainn Wilson who has played Dwight Schrute on the show for the past nine years. In the excerpt we play a clip of a scene from the “Take Your Daughter to Work Day” episode in which Dwight is reading to kids from the 1845 German children’s book Der Struwwelpeter, a book known for it’s appalling stories about what happens...
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