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BEA 2013: Mika Brzezinski: Weighty Issues
When it comes to eating habits and body image, you might not think that someone who is too thin would have much in common with someone who is grossly overweight, but that’s the conclusion MSNBC Morning Joe cohost Mika Brzezinski came to when she and her good friend and co-writer Diane Smith embarked on a journey together to confront their obsession with food.
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BEA 2013: Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Write
As a young girl, Elizabeth Gilbert was forbidden to touch a family heirloom that belonged to her great grandfather, a 1784 edition of Captain Cook’s voyages around the world.
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BEA 2013: Hoffman Meets New Challenges
Bestselling author Alice Hoffman got involved with fund-raising for breast cancer research following her own bout with the illness 15 years ago.
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Rutu Modan: Family Fictions
Israeli cartoonist Rutu Modan, best known for her Eisner Award winning 2008 graphic novel Exit Wounds (D&Q), returns with a new graphic novel called The Property.
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Rebel With a Cause: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
“It’s all right; I’m a Unitarian,” says Elizabeth Marshall Thomas as we settle into chairs in front of the altar of the Unitarian Universalist First Parish Church in Cambridge, Mass., to talk.
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Life at the End of the Day: Sue Halpern
It is a raw, windy morning in late April in Vermont, but at least it’s not snowing, as it did, according to locals, three times the previous week.
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Not Your Summer Camp: Anton DiSclafani
On an ordinary January day, which was also the day after Anton DiSclafani’s manuscript went out on submission, she received some extraordinary news.
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Meet Montaro Caine
Over the last 30 years, revered Academy Award–winning actor, director, activist, gentleman, and author Sidney Poitier has examined his life at different periods.
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Too Angry to Pray? Ian Punnett
Ian Punnett writes what he knows.
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Enjoying the Work of God: Patty Kirk
Patty Kirk's Christian equation used to look like this: Duty + Guilt = Spiritual Value.
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The Wisdom of Islam: Jamal Rahman
Imam Jamal Rahman describes the spiritual life as a quest to become "a more complete human being."
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Everyday Spirituality: Mary Hayes Grieco
Two decades ago, when she published The Kitchen Mystic, (Hazeldon, 1992), Mary Hayes Grieco got the feeling it was a book that would be with her for a long time.
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Helping the Living Help the Dying: David Swanson
For David Swanson, Everlasting Life (Baker Books, June) is the book he's always wanted to write. As senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Orlando, Fla., he's been in many situations involving dying and grieving people.
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One Mother to Another: Caryn Rivadeneira
Caryn Rivadeneira has had her struggles as a mother of three. She's been short-tempered, locked herself in a room to avoid the kids, and stood by and watched while her child had a major meltdown. Haven't we all?
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American Classic: Philipp Meyer
The Son, Philipp Meyer's epic American multigenerational second novel, out this June from Ecco.
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Writing What She Knows: Jeannette Walls
It’s easy to dispense with the usual formalities with Jeannette Walls. Even upon first meeting, Walls, 53, feels like an old friend. Our interaction is not so much a formal interview, but, rather, a lively conversation about her new novel, The Silver Star (Scribner, June).
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Poetry Profiled 2013
These four poets cross (and break across) all kinds of lines, joining personal and public history and traditional and experimental styles.
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Where Is Peter Hessler?
In 2006, Peter Hessler was in Beijing coming off the success of National Book Award–finalist Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China’s Past and Present (HarperCollins, 2006), his second book about China.
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Pessimist? Not Really…Charles Simic
For Charles Simic—one of America’s most famous poets, a former poetry editor of the Paris Review and former U.S. Poet Laureate, and perhaps one of the best-known poets writing in English—Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s publication of New and Selected Poems: 1962–2012 is an especially powerful event; until now, US readers had to buy two “selected poems” volumes, one from Braziller representing Simic’s early poems and another from Harcourt, gathering poems from Simic’s books since the mid-80s.
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Close to Home: NoViolet Bulawayo
NoViolet Bulawayo’s debut novel, We Need New Names (Little, Brown/Reagan Arthur Books, May 21) is set in a government sponsored program of forced relocation.
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