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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: The film The Glass Castle is based on Jeannette Walls' best-selling memoir of the same name. It's the story of her family's tortured upbringing - moving around the country, living in poverty with parents who are obsessed wi

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Maude Julien's childhood was so horrible it's difficult to read about in her new memoir. Her father wanted to turn his daughter into some kind of superhuman, so he treated her in a subhuman way. He forced his daughter to stay in a

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NOEL KING, HOST: As White House stenographer, it was Beck Dorey-Stein's job to write down every word of every interaction the president had with the press. She did the job for five years starting under President Obama. And then President Trump was el

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Burt Reynolds has died at the age of 82. He played a man on a hunting trip gone wrong in Deliverance. He played an unstoppable beer smuggler in Smokey And The Bandit. Bob Mondello offers an appreciation. BOB MONDELLO, BYLINE: The

美国国家公共电台 NPR She Thought Her Family Was Middle Class, Not Broke In The Richest Country On Earth

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KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: If you've been around long enough, you have seen this book - black cover, blocky white letters, instructions for making your own explosives inside. The Anarchist Cookbook was first published 45 years ago. And it comes with this w

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