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Holocaust survivor, Felicia Lubliner felt driven to remind us that the millions who perished were not defined by their deaths but by their lives-their joys, dreams, loves.
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JPR's Vanessa Finney gets recommendations for this season's reading from three local booksellers: Lynn and Kat from The Book Exchange and Megan from Bloomsbury Books.
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A new book by Ginette DePreist - “Reach Up: My Beautiful Journey with James DePreist” - describes her late husband's key role in the growth and development of the Oregon Symphony. JPR's Vanessa Finney recently visited Ginette at her apartment in Portland and had a conversation about the book, and James' musical legacy.
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JPR’s Vanessa Finney discusses “Only Hope: A Survivor’s Stories of the Holocaust” with book editor Irving Lubliner, director Liisa Ivary, and Christine Williams, who narrates the audiobook and stars in the play.
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The acclaimed radio essay series, "Turning the Tables," has inspired a new book. JPR's Vanessa Finney talks with two contributors about “How Women Made Music: a Revolutionary History from NPR Music.”
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Bloomsbury Books shares with JPR's Vanessa Finney their recommendations for your next scary story — and the depth and breadth of the Horror genre might surprise you.
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Oregon's new Poet Laureate, Ellen Waterston, recently spoke to JPR's Vanessa Finney about the state's literary landscape.
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Writer Joan Didion, Sacramento native whose 'electric anxiety' inspired a generation, has died at 87When Didion started writing in the 1960s, she put a certain kind of voice on the page — neurotic, female — that hadn't been there before.
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No word on whether Jonathan Lethem was among the first people in line for the latest Star Wars movie. But he was a big fan of the first one (first one…
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Don't you miss the days when you had time to curl up with a good book, and read it from cover to cover? Wait, did you ever really have such a time? Leah…
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The charms of our region mean people who might otherwise live in bigger cities settle in the hills and valleys around us. Including a number of published…
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Ernest Hemingway is an American icon. He left behind many photographs. He left behind many other artifacts.Michael Katakis is an author. He's collected…
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Any society heading for more repression tends to put a lid on its fiction writers. Azar Nafisi, who lived under the regime in Iran, has seen it happen.…