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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Actor and playwright Sam Shepard has died. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, THE RIGHT STUFF) SAM SHEPARD: (As Chuck Yeager) I think I see a plane over here with my name on it. CORNISH: That's from his Oscar-nominated performance as test pilot
In 1959, I wrote my autobiography for an assignment in Mrs. Kings sixth grade. In twenty-nine pages, most half-filled with earnest scrawl, I described my parents, brothers, pets, house, hobbies, school, sports and plans for the future. Forty-two yea
This book is not a memoir, although I have included stories about my life. 这本书不是一本回忆录,尽管里面有很多我自己的故事; It is not a self-help book, although I truly hope it helps. 它不是一本励志自助书,尽管我
For sheer drama and poignancy, real life stories sometimes outshine fiction. Consider the case of piano virtuoso Leon Fleisher. In 1966, at the height of a phenomenal international career, a medical condition called focal dystonia cost him the use of
A typhoon has ripped through the northern Philippines, killing one person and cutting power and communications. A state of calamity has been declared in Isabela province after the area was hit with winds of 200 kilometers an hour. The Red Cross says
Amazon China launches an event in Beijing to promote reading on Thursday, April 20. The company also unveiled a joint report with Xinhua on the reading habits of the Chinese population. [Photo: China.org.cn] April 23 marks this year's World Book Day,
1. Violence rocks the Gaza Strip. Thousands of Fatah Party activists took to the streets. Some burned abandoned cars; others shot guns in the air. The demonstration comes after their party lost to the
1. Malaysia Airlines says the plan that went down in eastern Ukraine had 280 passengers and 15 crew members aboard. Separatist rebels are denying they shot the plane down. Ukraines President says his countrys armed forces didnt shoot at any airborne
Legendary underwater explorer and filmmaker Jacques-Yves Cousteau was born 100 years ago this month (June 11, 1910). To celebrate Cousteau's remarkable life and legacy, National Geographic Books is publishing a memoir by his eldest son Jean-Michel, f
ReligiousWomanNavigatesCrisisofFaithin'HigherGround' Actress Vera Farmiga, nominated for an Oscar in 2010 for her role in Up In The Air, tries her hand at directing in a new drama about a religious woman questioning her faith. Alan Silverman has this
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Climb Every Mountain, Rocky Mountain High, Night On Bald Mountain - music and mountains have long been linked in the public imagination. Critic Bob Mondello says a documentary called Mountain finds a new sort of purity in the con
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: What is the worst movie you have ever seen? Well, many people might point to Tommy Wiseau's The Room, a romantic drama so ineptly made it has been called the Citizen Kane of bad movies. The Room has inspired a cult following, a v
Jacqueline Woodson's New Novel For Adults Has Its Roots In Adolescence AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Jacqueline Woodson has been writing books for children and young adults for most of her career. She won the National Book Award in 2014 for her memoir Brown G
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Jill Soloway is the Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning creator of the show Transparent and also the co-creator and director of the show I Love Dick. Their new memoir is called She Wants It. And we'll note right away that i
希拉里 克林顿开始新书推介之旅 Former First Lady, Senator and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has launched an international book tour for her memoir Hard Choices Tuesday. 前美国第一夫人、曾任参议员和国务卿的希拉里克
Institute Seeks to Bring International Writers to Wider Audience 文学学会向更多读者推荐世界作家 The International Institute of Modern Letters is bringing the works of contemporary write
The launch of a new book 'Old Friends': The Xi Jinping-Iowa Story by Sarah Lande has been held in Des Moines, Iowa. The World Food Prize Hall of Laureates in downtown Des Moines has become the latest location in the forwarding of U.S.-China friendshi
Topics: Norman Vincent Peale, Japanese internment camps, straightforward, to tap into, made by versus made of versus made in Words: Protestant denominations affiliation interplay technique affirmations civilian to betray ancestry to mitigate internme
As we enter 2014, award season is just around the corner. Director Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave is definitely one of the front-runners. 12 Years a Slave is based on the 1853 memoir of Solomon Northup, a free man kidnapped and sold into slavery. T
In February 1944, Lt. Donald W. Kerr of the U.S. Air Force had his airplane shot down by Japanese troops during an Allies' operation to bombard the Kai Tak airport. The airport in Hong Kong had been occupied by Japanese troops since 1941. Lt. Kerr ma