Books
Frank McCourt
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt passed away on July 19 -- we pay tribute to him with this 'Studio 360' interview from 2002.
What belongs on the Five Foot Book Shelf?
"Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf" was a list of literature classics compiled by Harvard president Charles Eliot back in 1909. Last week we asked YOU to tell us which books you'd put on a Five Foot Shelf in 2009....
Add some Soul to your Fourth of July cookout
Chef Bryant Terry shares recipes for African-American and Southern food at its healthiest, tastiest and most sustainable....
Surf's up for prize-winning Australian novel
This year's winner of Australia's top literary prize is titled "Breath" by Tim Winton, and it's a rarity, world class novel about surfing....
The regional cuisine of 1940s America
An outgrowth of the New Deal, What America Eats became a national compendium of regional cooking....
Work and the meaning of life
With millions of jobs lost, philosopher Alain de Botton reflects on why we work, and how we find meaning in our work....
Archie's bachelor days are over
Archie is going to marry Veronica -- that's the big news in the comic book world; the story is making big waves in India and Kenya....
Military Wife
Lily Burana, who recently wrote a book on the topic, talks about what it means to be a modern-day military wife....
Science in fiction and nonfiction
Three writers discuss themes as varied as consumer electronics, neuroscience and Twitter....
Britain's first female poet laureate
The post is over 300 years old, but Carol Ann Duffy is the first woman to be named poet laureate in the UK....
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