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NPR

NPR rocks!  All Things Considered is the best news program anywhere.  There are a host of excellent shows, such as Teri Gross' Fresh Air, This American Life, and Wait! Wait! Don't Tell Me.

Here are some arbitrary links to NPR items of interest.

This American Life (link)

• Squirrel Cop
  The funniest This American Life segment.  It's worth navigating to the middle of the program to hear it.

David Sedaris

• Santaland Diaries
  Santaland diaries launched the career of writer and commentator David Sedaris. He recounts his days as a Christmas elf at Macy's department store in New York City. The experience eventually made its way into the book Barrel Fever and has been made into a short play.
• Life in New York City
  The first episode in a weekly series on experiences as a resident of New York City. In this segment, Sedaris talks about what it was like working for a small moving company.
• 'April in Paris'
  In the fourth and final part of a series of essays about his life in France, Sedaris talks about his April in Paris based on his own experiences in the "City of Light," collected in Me Talk Pretty One Day.
• Inside French Health Care
  In part three of a weekly series of essays about his life in France, Sedaris examines the French health care system from the inside.
• The Sex of French Nouns
  In the second part of a series on life in France, Sedaris says he's discovered some interesting things about the French language as he struggles to master the genders of French nouns.
• American in Paris
  In part one of a weekly series of essays about his life in France, Commentator David Sedaris examines what an American in Paris can learn from the movies.

Kim Williams

• On dying (one month before her death from ovarian cancer)
.  Kim Williams(14.4 | 28.8) - While Kim Williams is remembered by NPR listeners for her commentaries about rural life and living in Montana, a number of people wrote and called to ask that we replay this interview, the last time Kim appeared on NPR. News of her terminal cancer had just become public knowledge at the time and she spoke with NPR's Susan Stamberg about her thoughts on dying. (8:30)
• Foraging the Strip (14.4 | 28.8) - Kim Williams found wild french fry plants and ketchup and hamburger bushes along I-93 in Montana. - 2:45
• When Will They Drop Dead (14.4 | 28.8) - Kim Williams commentary. Long-Living Ukranian peasants who swear by steady intake of yogurt ... or macrobiotic fans who preach, longetivity through brown rice. - 3:45
   

Daniel Pinkwater

• Bio
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Baxter Black

• Christmas For Cows (14.4 | 28.8) - A poem from commentator, philosopher and former large animal veterinarian Baxter Black (2:00)

Reynolds Price

• School for Husbands (14.4 | 28.8) - For the past 16 years Commentator Reynolds Price has employed male graduate students to run his household. It's the best education for potential husbands. - 3:13

Misc

• National Story Project
• NPR bios
• Bob Mondello
• Geoffrey Nunberg

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