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'Cities Are Resilient,' Says Baltimore Crime Novelist Laura Lippman
Lippman's latest novel, Lady in the Lake, was inspired by two real-life Baltimore disappearances in the 1960s. She says Trump's recent tweets show a "basic disrespect" for the residents of her city.
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Sun Valley Sheriff Finds Murder On The Mountain
From assassins coming to kill a potential presidential candidate to thieves crashing an auction of costly wines, the stories in Ridley Pearson's crime thrillers may be fiction but their setting of Sun Valley, Idaho, is very real.
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How Twitter And Cooking Saved Ruth Reichl After 'Gourmet' Folded
Food writer Ruth Reichl has a new cookbook called My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes That Saved My Life. It describes how she found her voice after Conde Nast shut down the magazine where she was editor.
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'New York Times' considers legal action against OpenAI as copyright tensions swirl
The news publisher and maker of ChatGPT have held tense negotiations over striking a licensing deal for the use of the paper's articles to train the chatbot. Now, legal action is being considered.
Some state Republican parties are struggling and seeing deep divisions
Some state Republican parties — like Colorado's — are struggling after steep election losses, and are witnessing infighting that has left deep divisions when it comes to the future of the GOP.
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In 1879, Explorers Set Sail To Solve Arctic Mystery, Once And For All
In the Kingdom of Ice tells the story of a "grand and terrible" 19th-century expedition into uncharted Arctic waters. Of the 33 men who set out, only 13 made it home after a truly harrowing voyage.
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Book Club: Hector Tobar Answers Your Questions About 'Deep Down Dark'
Tobar says it was a "great honor" to interview the 33 Chilean miners who were trapped underground for 69 days in 2010. They lived "one of the great adventure stories of the 21st century," he says.
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A Personal History Of L.A. Punk: 'It Was A Free-For-All For Outcasts'
John Doe, Exene Cervenka and Dave Alvin of X join Fresh Air to discuss punk's early days. "Anybody could belong to punk that wanted to be there," Cervenka says. "[It] didn't matter how old you were."
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Hitler Couldn't Defeat Churchill, But Champagne Nearly Did
During the 1930s, as Hitler was rising to power in Germany, the man who would turn out to be his most implacable foe was drowning — in debt and champagne. A new book recounts the unbelievable excess.
The U.S. And China: 2 Centuries Of Infatuation And Disappointment
In a new book, journalist and author John Pomfret tackles a relationship that stretches back to America's earliest years and is now more important — and challenging — than ever.
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