Tag: fun

Sedaris says the best part of reading his work to an audience is earning the laughs — or the groans. “A collective groan is fine with me,” he says. His new book is The Land and Its People.

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I take a mental health walk and call my mother. I then take another mental health walk.

CBS and Paramount backed away from copyright challenges to limit distribution of Stephen Colbert’s appearance on a Michigan cable access show. He ended his run as host of “The Late Show” on Thursday.

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Pity the poor large language model!

The books had to be light and small enough to fit in servicemen’s pockets. The motto of the Council on Books in Wartime was: “Books Are Weapons in the War of Ideas.”

NPR’s Star Wars nerds talk about whether the franchise still has the juice, as ‘Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu’ hits the cinemas.

Dohrn’s parents helped found the Weather Underground. His memoir is Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young. Ward learned the term “respair” — the recovery of hope after despair — during the pandemic.

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NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe talks to Alison Willmore, a film critic for New York magazine and Vulture, about the highlights of this year’s Cannes Film Festival in France.

The young women make photos that look at life — how it is, how they wish it could be — under Taliban rule. The images are on display at the Photoville Festival in Brooklyn, New York.

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NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Bloomberg reporter Jonathan Randles about a legal battle that’s left over 8 million comic books sitting in a Mississippi warehouse.