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Marilyn Johnson on "The Dead Beat"

Marilyn Johnson tells Anne Strainchamps why obituaries are the best stories in the paper.

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Rob Sheffield on "Love is A Mix Tape"

Rob Sheffield talks with Anne Strainchamps about his relationship with his late wife and how they communicated by exchanging mix tapes of their favorite music.

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Philip Dray on Lynching

Civil rights historian Philip Dray discusses how the presence of TV cameras at the trial of the men who murdered Emmett Till changed the way the country viewed lynching.

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Neil Steinberg on "Drunkard: A Hard-Drinking Life"

Neil Steinberg tells Jim Fleming, among other things, why AA seems to work, even when you intellectually reject its basic premises.

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Richard Ellis on Polar Bears

Is the melting of the Polar Ice cap in the Arctic destroying the habitat for polar bears and the seals they eat?

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Patricia Pearson on Procrastination Anxiety

Patricia Person confesses she is a procrastinator in this audio essay.

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On Our Minds: Iraq War Poetry

Kevin Powers has spent the last decade reflecting on his experiences as a machine gunner in Iraq in 2004 and 2005.  He talks about his new poetry collection "Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting."

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Marsha Mehran on "Pomegranate Soup"

Marsha Mehran was born in Tehran but grew up in Argentina and is now married to an Irishman.

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