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(Nilo Cruz)
No one on the Pulitzer committee that picked underdog playwright Nilo Cruz's "Anna in the Tropics" had seen the play performed. Cruz's play depicts life in a Florida cigar factory in 1929, and was inspired by "Anna Karenina".
Roof Positive
Philip Mangano, executive director of the Interagency Council on Homeless, wants to eradicate homelessness in 10 years
Once Upon A Time, In A Cigar Factory in Ybor City, FL
Nilo Cruz on his Pulitzer prize-winning play, “Anna in the Tropics” set in a cigar factory
Don't Judge a Book By Its Cover
Ann Sparanese, a council member of the American Library Association and a reference librarian at the Englewood Public Library and Robert Kent, co-chair of The Friends of Cuban Libraries and a researcher at the General Research Division of the New York Public Library, on underground libraries in Cuba
Hitt Parade
Jack Hitt, contributing editor to Harper's, and a contributor to The New York Times Magazine and This American Life, on eco-faith
Open Phones
Listeners call on fast food and fat
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