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940LoC GlobalCrime Novelist Laura Lippman: Empathy, Not Violence, Makes a Great Story
Author photo: Lesley Unruh Laura Lippman is the bestselling author of novels such as “What the Dead Know,” “Every Secret Thing” and,...
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1.0KLoC GlobalFree Car Pics!
“Spindle,” a sculpture by Dustin Shuler, towered over a parking lot in Berwyn, Ill., from 1989 to 2008. Photo: Carol M. Highsmith....
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1.0KLoC GlobalCrowdsourcing Challenge: The Man Who Recorded the World
This is a guest post by Todd Harvey and Melanie Zeck of the American Folklife Center. Page 18 of Alan Lomax’s “composition...
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1.1KLoC GlobalThe Notebooks Behind Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood”
Capote, at the Clutter family house. AP Wire Photo. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Prints and Photographs Division....
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963LoC GlobalNational Book Festival: Pablo Cartaya, in English and Spanish
Author photo: Leah Wharton. Pablo Cartaya is an author, actor and educator who knows his way around the kitchen, too. In 2018,...
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1.0KLoC GlobalMy Job: Patrick Egan, Searching Irish Traditional Music
Concertina player Mae Mulcahy, Butte, Montana, 1979. Montana Folklife Survey collection, American Folklife Center. Patrick Egan (Pádraig Mac Aodhgáin) is a researcher...
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963LoC GlobalNational Book Festival: It’s Just About That Time…
Captain Underpants, the minimally clad superhero, greets fans on the Expo floor at the 2018 National Book Festival. Photo: David Rice. The...
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970LoC GlobalNational Book Festival: Louis Bayard and “Courting Mr. Lincoln”
Author photo: Tim Coburn. A number of your novels take place in the Victorian era. What is about that time period that...
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1.0KLoC GlobalNational Book Festival: Philippa Gregory and the Love of History
Philippa Gregory. Photo from: Simon and Schuster. Philippa Gregory is the author of 39 books, most of them works of historical fiction....
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988LoC GlobalRadio Girl and Her De Luxe Revue
Vaughn de Leath, 1939. Jim Walsh Collection, Recorded Sound Reference Center. Taylor McClaskie is one of the Music Division’s summer 2019 interns....
