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Living With Asperger's, Surviving Slum Life in Mumbai, and more


Thu, Feb 09, 2012

Stories in this episode: 1) 'Best Practices': Learning To Live With Asperger's; 2) Is White, Working Class America 'Coming Apart'?; 3) 'Beautiful Forevers': Surviving Slum Life In Mumbai; 4) Robert Harris, In 'Fear' Of A Financial Frankenstein 5) S'il-Vous-Plait: Raising Your 'Bebe' The French Way

Stories in this episode: 1) Bound Together: Breaking Those Toxic Family Ties; 2) Kesey's 'Cuckoo's Nest' Still Flying; 3) Tina Brown's Must-Reads: Dictators; 4) Quiet, Please: Unleashing 'The Power Of Introverts'; 5) 'An Available Man': Love After Loss; 6) Newspoet: Tracy K. Smith Writes The Day In Verse; 7)  'How It All Began': A Lively Ode To Happenstance

Stories in this episode: 1) A 'Guitar Zero' Finds It's Not Too Late To Learn Music; 2) Lesson Learned: Don't Fly To North Pole In A Balloon; 3) Talk Nerdy To Me: Three Reads For Your Inner Geek; 4) Publishers And Booksellers See A 'Predatory' Amazon; 5) Taft 2012': A Presidential Time Warp; 6) How Dr. Seuss Got His Start 'On Mulberry Street'; 7) A Ball (And A Caldecott) For 'Daisy' The Dog

Stories in this episode: 1) Imprisoned In A Mysterious Mistaken Identity 2) Growing Up Muslim And Midwestern In 'Dervish' 3)  Hell-Raising Heroines: Three Ladies With Spitfire 4) Diaries' Reveals New York Through The Ages 5) Left-Handedness: No Longer Suspect; Still A Mystery 6) What's In Store: 3 Tales Of A Terrifying Future

Stories in this episode: 1) True Grit: 'Into The Silence' Scales Everest; 2) Dusting Off A Gritty, Glamorous California Classic; 3) Graphic Content: 3 Comics Based On Real Crimes; 4) Bill Cosby Enlists Santa's Staff For A Silent Night; 5) A Jewish Perspective On The New Testament; 6) For 'Downton' Fans, A New Season And A New Book; 7) Fired Up: The Year's Best Science Fiction, Fantasy

Stories in this episode: 1) The Enduring Popularity Of Sherlock Holmes; 2) ‘The Dead Witness’: Classic Victorian Crime Fiction; 3) ‘Breadcrumbs’: Young Readers Follow A Wintry Tale; 4) The Story Of The Chitlin’ Circuit’s Great Performers 5) William F. Buckley, Father of American Conservatism 6) For Hitchens, In Life And Death, An Unaware Cosmos

Stories in this episode: 1) 'Man Seeks God,' Finds Wayne Of Staten Island 2) In 'Pemberley,' James Picks Up Where Austen Left Off 3) Short And Sweet Status Updates Tell Their Own Story 4) In 'Salvage The Bones,' Family's Story Of Survival 5) A New Look At The Man Behind U.S. Cold War Policy

Stories in this episode: 1) Hedy Lamarr: 'Most Beautiful Woman' By Day, Inventor By Night; 2) 'Pride And Prejudice' Meets 'Clue' At 'Pemberley'; 3) Bachmann's 'Conviction' To Fixing Government; 4)Micro' Picks Up Where Michael Crichton Left Off; 5) Kids' Book Club Takes 'Tollbooth' To Lands Beyond

Stories in this episode: 1) The Real Mr. Incredible: Self-Styled 'Superheroes' 2) 2011's Best Cookbooks, Tested And Tasted 3) Small Book, Big Story: Bronte Manuscript Discovered 4) Kurt Vonnegut Was Not A Happy Man. 'So It Goes.' 5) Parenting Advice For The 20-Something Years 6) Speak, Memory: 'An Ending' That Uncovers The Past

Stories in this episode: 1) Mindy Kaling On Diets, High School And Other American Pastimes 2) John Hodgman And Robert Siegel Consider 'All' Things, Some Of Them Rather Dubious 3) Sorrowful 'Blue Nights': Didion Mourns Her Daughter 4) The Funny 50: A Cavalcade Of Comic Writers 5) Kids' Book Club: A 'Graveyard' Tour With Neil Gaiman

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