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The Next Big Thing
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Death, longing, love
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The Next Big Thing is death, longing, love … in other words: Fado, music from Portugal that will take your breath away. It's being haunted by the old neighborhood with writer Philip Lopate. It's news that's not news, and how you feel when you're about to eat cake.
I Said Goodbye to You and Died
Guitars cry. The spirit swoons. The essence of Portugal revealed through fado and Cristina Branco (Photo above by José Melo).
News from NPR: Normally Private Real Life
You give us three minutes, we'll give you the world of the ordinary. Newscaster Rick Davis with special appearances from Brooke Gladstone, Steve Inskeep and Karen Michel.
Brooklyn Revisited
Essayist Philip Lopate follows his memory's map back to the old neighborhood and finds it transformed from what he knew as a kid – fistfights and cockroaches.
Our Books, Our Selves
“The Ballad of John and Yoko”? “Profiles in Courage”? There’s not much room left on the shelf, but writer Meg Wolitzer just can't let go.
