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Poetry Friday: Landscape, chance and longing

Poetry Friday: Landscape, chance and longing

To celebrate National Poetry Month, we are showcasing weekly poems from Graywolf Press, Milkweed Editions and Coffee House Press.
by Tracy Mumford

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Music legend Spider John Koerner contemplates his legacy

Music legend Spider John Koerner contemplates his legacy

A concert on Sunday will give young and old players the chance to pay their respects to, and play with, their musical hero.
by Euan Kerr

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'The Hello Girls' highlights the women who ran the WWI switchboards

'The Hello Girls' highlights the women who ran the WWI switchboards

A book published today, the 100th anniversary of America's entry into World War I, tells the story of "America's First Women Soldiers" who served as switchboard operators in the field.
by Glen Weldon

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'Tell Me How It Ends' offers a moving, humane portrait of child migrants

'Tell Me How It Ends' offers a moving, humane portrait of child migrants

Valeria Luiselli's new book is based on her experiences working as an interpreter for Central American child migrants seeking entry to the U.S. Critic John Powers calls it "fair minded and expansive."
by John Powers

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Don Rickles, king of insult comedy, dies at 90

Don Rickles, king of insult comedy, dies at 90

Don Rickles, the big-mouthed, bald-headed "Mr. Warmth" whose verbal assaults endeared him to audiences and peers and made him the acknowledged grandmaster of insult comedy, died Thursday.
by Associated Press

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Rich, colorful 'Afar' reimagines the magical girl

Rich, colorful 'Afar' reimagines the magical girl

Leila del Duca and Kit Seaton's new novel follows a young girl in a richly-imagined North Africa-flavored fantasy world, who discovers she has the power to dream herself into different bodies.
by Etelka Lehoczky

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The 'enemies among us' in World War I Minnesota

The 'enemies among us' in World War I Minnesota

An historian explores the social context for World War I, a time when Minnesotans cast a suspicious eye on immigrants who might be disloyal. It's a story of fear, and a story of "us versus them," from a hundred years ago.
by MPR News Staff

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Hall and Oates' 'Rich Girl' was inspired by a rich man

Hall and Oates' 'Rich Girl' was inspired by a rich man

The song is based on stories Daryl Hall heard about Victor Walker, whose father owned a chain of fast food restaurants in Chicago.
by MPR News Staff

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