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'Steal The Menu': A Chronicle Of A Career In Food Coverage
When Raymond Sokolov began writing about food, it was considered a specialty portfolio. Today, celebrity chefs abound in the U.S. and Britain, with cookbooks, TV shows and groupies. Host Scott Simon speaks with Sokolov about his new book, Steal the Menu: A Memoir of Forty Years in Food.
Three-Minute Fiction Readings: 'Geometry' And 'Snowflake'
NPR's Bob Mondello and Susan Stamberg read excerpts of two of the best submissions for Round 11 of our short story contest. They read Snowflake by Winona Wendth of Lancaster, Mass., and Geometry by Eugenie Montague of Los Angeles.
Snowflake
She found the photograph early in the day, while she was cleaning for spring, pulling a winter's collection of domestic detritus out from under the bed. Ticket stubs, grimy grocery notes, coffee-stained lined paper, and dead pens. Their life: movies, food, and books.
Gateway Arch 'Biography' Reveals Complex History Of An American Icon
The gleaming stainless steel arch in St. Louis is, officially, a monument to westward expansion. But in The Gateway Arch: A Biography, Tracy Campbell argues that the monument's meaning is more complicated. He tells NPR about the controversies, the clout and the costs behind the 630-foot structure.
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Prepare For Takeoff With 'Cockpit Confidential'
In his new book, pilot and columnist Patrick Smith explains why you have to turn off your cellphone for takeoff and landing, and why your ideas about autopilot are probably all wrong. He wants people to "re-appreciate the act of air travel. It's not as horrible as everybody thinks it is."
A Race Against Time To Find WWI's Last 'Doughboys'
In 2003, Richard Rubin set out to talk to every American veteran of World War I he could find. With help from the French, he tracked down dozens of centenarian vets and recorded their stories in a new book called The Last of the Doughboys.
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Maria Semple: By the Book
NPR Bestsellers: Week Of May 23, 2013
The lists are compiled from weekly surveys of close to 500 independent bookstores nationwide.
NPR Bestsellers: Hardcover Fiction, Week Of May 23, 2013
Symbologist Robert Langdon faces a Dante-themed riddle in Dan Brown's Inferno. It debuts at No. 1.
NPR Bestsellers: Hardcover Nonfiction, Week Of May 23, 2013
The Guns at Last Light concludes Rick Atkinson's World War II trilogy. It debuts at No. 4.
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NPR Bestsellers: Paperback Fiction, Week Of May 23, 2013
At No. 13, a pilot fights to survive after a devastating pandemic in Peter Heller's The Dog Stars.
NPR Bestsellers: Paperback Nonfiction, Week Of May 23, 2013
An expanded edition of Wreck This Journal encourages creative destruction. It debuts at No. 14.
‘Between My Father and the King,’ by Janet Frame
‘The Hanging Garden,’ by Patrick White
Open Book: Battle of the Brain
‘You Are One of Them,’ by Elliott Holt
‘Flora,’ by Gail Godwin
