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Rebecca Skloot
GBH News· 3 days agoRebecca Skloot is an award-winning writer, and a contributing editor at *Popular Science* magazine. Skloot served for eight years on the Board of...
Mark Oppenheimer
GBH News· 1 day agoMark Oppenheimer is a regular writer for *The New York Times Magazine, Slate, The New York Times Book Review, The Boston Globe*, and ...
Christopher Kimball
GBH News· 4 days agoChris is also a columnist for the Boston-based TAB newspaper group. He was...
‘The Inner Game of Tennis’ Review: The Court in Your Mind
The Wall Street Journal· 10 hours agoMr. Gallwey’s gauzy nostrums must work on the court or his book would not have survived for a half...
JFK Jr.'s Surprising Reason for Never Introducing Carolyn Bessette to His Mom Jackie Kennedy
SheKnows· 6 days agoJFK Jr.’s decision to not have Jackie meet his future wife is chronicled in an upcoming book about...
48 Attempts to Understand the Creative Spirit
New York Times· 17 hours agoFor Adam Moss, the same is true of the... Nothing (Penguin Press, $45), Moss, the former editor of New York magazine, interviews nearly 50 people who...
Purple Rain Book Author Recalls the ‘Playful’ and ‘Soft-Spoken’ Side of Prince
SPIN via AOL· 3 days agoThere seems to be as many books about Prince as there are tapes in The Purple One’s vaults. With...
John Hodgman
GBH News· 7 days agoInvisibility Consultant on *This American Life*, Advice Columnist for McSweeney's, Comic Book Reviewer for *The New York Times Book & ...
Claire Messud’s Remarkable Experiment in Historical Fiction
The Nation· 3 days agoOpposite the copyright page in Claire Messud’s newest book, This Strange Eventful History, is a note...
Five of the best books on climbing mountains
The Economist· 9 hours agoMOUNTAINEERING HAS gone mainstream. Take Mount Everest. In the four decades after Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first reached the summit in 1953...