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#MeToo movement has gone too far, Catherine Deneuve says

A debate is raging in France after prominent female actresses and performers penned an open letter, saying the fallout from the Harvey Weinstein scandal was hurting innocent men.
by Doreen McCallister

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A cautionary tale about funeral planning

A song on Christine Lavin's latest album is about what happens when you don't let loved ones know what kind of funeral you want.
by MPR News Staff

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James Franco's New York Times talk canceled amid allegations

James Franco's New York Times talk canceled amid allegations

After he won a best actor Golden Globe on Sunday night, actress Violet Paley accused Franco on Twitter of sexual misconduct. Filmmaker Sarah Tither-Kaplan questioned Franco wearing a "Times Up" pin during the awards ceremony in a tweet about him having her do a nude scene for $100 per day.
by The Associated Press

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'Winter' balances dark days with flashes of joy and light

'Winter' balances dark days with flashes of joy and light

he second volume in Ali Smith's seasonal quartet takes place over a tense family Christmas in Cornwall that reunites two sisters whose lives have taken vastly diverging paths.
by Heller McAlpin

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Block party: St. Paul ice palace starts to rise

Block party: St. Paul ice palace starts to rise

Workers swung a 700-pound chunk of ice into place Tuesday in St. Paul's Rice Park, the first of about 4,000 blocks that will build an ice palace to warm Winter Carnival-goers and woo Super Bowl visitors.
by Tim Nelson

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For 'The Immortalists,' knowledge of death changes lives

For 'The Immortalists,' knowledge of death changes lives

In Chloe Benjamin's new book, four siblings growing up on the Lower East Side amid the upheavals of the 1960s gain forbidden, life-changing knowledge: The exact year and date of their deaths.
by Jean Zimmerman

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Posthumously published 'Sea Maiden' affirms Denis Johnson's eternal voice

Posthumously published 'Sea Maiden' affirms Denis Johnson's eternal voice

A new collection features five stand-alone stories by Johnson, who died in 2017. Critic Maureen Corrigan says "The Largesse of the Sea Maiden" is "the kind of work every writer would like to go out on."
by Maureen Corrigan

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Want a new you for the New Year? These books might actually help

Want a new you for the New Year? These books might actually help

Jolenta Greenberg and Kristen Meinzer live by a new self-help book for each episode of their podcast By the Book, so they're experts on which ones might really help us keep our New Year's resolutions.
by Ari Shapiro

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