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'Jurassic World' director revels in a low-budget indie film

'Jurassic World' director revels in a low-budget indie film

Some thought Colin Trevorrow wouldn't want to finish an independent film after he was hired to make "Jurassic World." But the story of "The Book of Henry" lured him back.
by Euan Kerr

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Thread Book Hour: Sheryl Sandberg on post-traumatic growth

Thread Book Hour: Sheryl Sandberg on post-traumatic growth

Kerri Miller's interview with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg. Sandberg's husband, Minneapolis native Dave Goldberg, died unexpectedly two years ago. To cope with her grief, Sandberg reached out to her friend, psychologist Adam Grant. Together, they wrote "Option B," a new book about surviving tragedy and building resiliency.
by MPR News Staff

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In 'The Chalk Artist,' a plea for real-world connection

In 'The Chalk Artist,' a plea for real-world connection

While the love story in Allegra Goodman's latest novel can seem formulaic, she captures the allure of video gaming and the tension between real-world art and literature and the fantasy worlds online.
by Heller McAlpin

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'Fargo' recap: I got different facts

'Fargo' recap: I got different facts

In the penultimate episode for season three of 'Fargo,' all of V.M. Varga's carefully plotted plans begin to come under fire.
by Tracy Mumford

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Confronting the possibility of monsters in 'The Essex Serpent'

Confronting the possibility of monsters in 'The Essex Serpent'

The clash between science and religious belief lies at the heart of Sarah Perry's new novel, set in a marshy, windswept English town menaced by a serpentine monster that may or may not truly exist.
by Ari Shapiro

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The evolution of LaFarge's 'Riot in the Streets'

Pokey LaFarge, who lives in St. Louis, wrote the song in response to the riots in Ferguson, Mo., after Michael Brown was killed by a police officer. He says "the song started getting written about Ferguson, but it is overall touching on a national issue."
by MPR News Staff

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Art Hounds: Funny feminists, and African drumming and dance

Art Hounds: Funny feminists, and African drumming and dance

This week on Art Hounds: Raw Sugar presents "The Funny," Ken McCullough reads poetry in Plainview, and "Wali" celebrates traditional African drumming and dance.
by Marianne Combs

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'So Much Blue' is Percival Everett's best yet

'So Much Blue' is Percival Everett's best yet

By turns funny, shocking and heartbreaking, Everett's new novel follows a painter who's deeply ambivalent about his apparently idyllic life and digs into the moments in his past that shaped him.
by Michael Schaub

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After years of restraint, a linguist says 'yes!' to the exclamation point

After years of restraint, a linguist says 'yes!' to the exclamation point

F. Scott Fitzgerald once declared that using an exclamation point was like laughing at your own joke, but linguist Geoff Nunberg begs to differ. He has begun embracing the mark in his own writing.
by Geoff Nunberg

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