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• Books, films, and music for the new year
  Midmorning gets the scoop on what to expect from the worlds of film, literature and music in 2012.Midmorning, January 9, 2012
• 'Film School' is Steve Boman's account of wild ride in career change
  Steve Boman, a reporter by trade, decided to take a career leap in his early 40s and attend film school at USC. He recounts what turned out to be a wild ride in his new memoir, "Film School."December 30, 2011
• Fairy tales in prime time
  Fairy Tales are often used as the basis for modern day story lines. But recently we've seen a real upsurge in the number of television and movie projects based on these favorite story lines. Why are these historic tales making such a comeback now? And are the re-tellings any good?Midmorning, December 27, 2011
• Author digs into culinary giant's life outside the kitchen
  Even if you don't know the name August Escoffier you have likely experienced his culinary innovation.December 22, 2011
• Author Lisa See on her Chinese American heritage
  Lisa See is the author of "Shanghai Girls" and "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan." Many of her books center on Chinese and Chinese American characters. She discusses her writing and the influence of her Chinese American heritage at the Hennepin Country Central Library in downtown Minneapolis.Midday, December 21, 2011
• Hanukkah Lights 2011
  NPR's annual holiday program celebrating the Jewish festival of lights. Hosts Susan Stamberg and Murray Horwitz read from a collection of specially commissioned stories centering on Hanukkah.Midday, December 20, 2011
• Minn. poet Bly celebrates friend's Nobel
  Acclaimed Minnesota poet Robert Bly is helping celebrate the Nobel Prize for Literature claimed recently by his longtime friend, Sweden's Tomas Transtromer.December 13, 2011
• Bachmann's book off to slow sales start
  Michele Bachmann's new book has been slow to move off of store shelves, according to figures from the first two weeks of sales.December 7, 2011
• Q&A: Eric Utne, magazine founder
  Utne Reader, the Minneapolis-based compendium of progressive writing and alternative media, is relocating to Topeka, Kan., the magazine's publisher announced Monday.December 6, 2011
• '11/22/63' : Stephen King on his new time travel book
  Stephen King's latest novel, "11/22/63", centers on a man who travels back in time to try to prevent JFK's assassination. King discusses the book and his writing career at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston.Midday, December 1, 2011
• 'Fahrenheit 451' finally out as an e-book
  Ray Bradbury, science fiction/fantasy author and longtime enemy of the e-book, has finally allowed his dystopian classic "Fahrenheit 451" to be published in digital format.November 29, 2011
• Talking Volumes: Colson Whitehead
  Author Colson Whitehead joined Kerri Miller to discuss zombies, Twitter, his childhood journal and his new book, Zone One. Recorded at the Fitzgerald Theater on November 2nd.Midmorning, November 7, 2011
• The tragedy of Arthur
  In his new novel, Arthur Phillips spins a tale within a tale about a novelist named Arthur Phillips, and his discovery of a long-lost play by Shakespeare. Is Phillips writing about himself, and is the play the real thing? Find out on Midmorning. Originally broadcast April 26, 2011.Midmorning, October 28, 2011
• A multi-layered novel which deliberately leaves much to a readers imagination
  "The Stranger's Child" caused one newspaper critic to say Alan Hollinghurst had a "perhaps unassailable claim to be the best English novelist working today."October 27, 2011
• Author Charles Frazier goes contemporary in newest book
  Charles Frazier, author of the best-selling novel "Cold Mountain," is moving forward in time, in his newest book. His novel, "Nightwoods," is a thriller, set around 1960 in a remote community in the forested mountains of North Carolina.October 24, 2011

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