Jessica Hopper’s memoir oscillates between charting a story of gentrification, a young woman’s love affair with Chicago, and the types of friendships that represent the texture of a city.
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Jessica Hopper’s memoir oscillates between charting a story of gentrification, a young woman’s love affair with Chicago, and the types of friendships that represent the texture of a city.
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Jen Doll’s new novel follows a group of misfit kids working at Alabama’s legendary Unclaimed Baggage store, a place where all kinds of lost things (and people, and one purple leopard suitcase) end up.
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That’s one of the themes in the new book ‘Between Hope and Fear: A History of Vaccines and Human Immunity.’
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“The language of type can be immensely clarifying,” says author Merve Emre. In The Personality Brokers she describes how a mother-daughter duo started a multi-million dollar “people sorting” industry.
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Love, Gilda, explores the life of one of the original SNL cast members, Gilda Radner. NPR’s Melissa Block speaks to the director, Lisa D’Apolito, about the struggles Radner faced off camera.