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document.write('<p class="rss_title"><a class="rss_title" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1008&ft=1&f=1008" target="_blank">NPR Topics: Arts & Life</a><br /><span class="rss_item">Art and entertainment commentary plus interviews, book reviews, movie reviews, music reviews, comedy, and visual art. Subscribe to podcasts and follow trends in music, painting, art, architecture, photography, and design.</span></p>');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123497650&ft=1&f=1008" title="read..." target="_blank">Imagining \'The Next Hundred Million\' Americans</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on February 09, 2010 02:00:00 am</span><br />');
document.write('The U.S. population is expected to reach 400 million by mid-century. In his book, <em>The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050,</em> Joel Kotkin argues that future will be green, diverse and suburban. Kotkin explains how the nation\'s changing demographics will transform American life and communities.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123491414&ft=1&f=1008" title="read..." target="_blank">20 Years Of Defending Death Row Inmates</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on February 09, 2010 01:00:00 am</span><br />');
document.write('Attorney David Dow has spent his career representing inmates who have been sentenced to death. Despite his efforts, many of his clients have been executed &mdash; and most of them were guilty.  In his new memoir, <em>The Autobiography of an Execution,</em> Dow details what it\'s like to become emotionally involved with the people living on death row.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123494898&ft=1&f=1008" title="read..." target="_blank">Jazz Ensemble Empirical Recalls Eric Dolphy</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on February 09, 2010 12:24:00 am</span><br />');
document.write('<em>Out \'n\' In,</em> the latest album from Empirical, is a tribute to the late musician Eric Dolphy. The record contains six original pieces that adopt Dolphy\'s style and adaptations of two songs from his album <em>Out to Lunch!</em>');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2010/02/notable_and_dubious_achievemen.html" title="read..." target="_blank">Notable And Dubious Super Bowl Achievements</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on February 08, 2010 10:03:00 pm</span><br />');
document.write('Now that the big trophy has been handed out, Monkey See distributes some of its own. Linda Holmes chooses between Snickers, Letterman-Leno and Google for Best Ad. Other honors include: best example of turning on a dime and most surprising movie resemblance.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123417824&ft=1&f=1008" title="read..." target="_blank">DeLillo\'s Man In The Desert, Up Against The Wall</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on February 07, 2010 01:00:00 pm</span><br />');
document.write('The author\'s latest novel is <em>Point Omega,</em> the story of a man who aided in the planning of the Iraq war. Like many of the books in DeLillo\'s 40-year career, it connects real-life events with themes of isolation and inevitability.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123463716&ft=1&f=1008" title="read..." target="_blank">First Black Woman POW \'Still Standing\'</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on February 07, 2010 09:00:00 pm</span><br />');
document.write('Shoshana Johnson was one of seven American POWs rescued alive 22 days after the 507th Maintenance Company was ambushed in An Nasiriyah, Iraq, in March of 2003. Her capture made her the first African-American female prisoner of war in U.S. history. Host Liane Hansen talks to Johnson about her new memoir <em>I\'m Still Standing: From Captive U.S. Soldier to Free Citizen, My Journey Home</em>.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123463730&ft=1&f=1008" title="read..." target="_blank">\'Birthright\': The Astonishing Story Behind \'Kidnapped\'</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on February 07, 2010 09:00:00 pm</span><br />');
document.write('In his new book, <em>Birthright</em>, author A. Roger Ekirch gives a historical account of the 18th-century kidnapping of 12-year-old British aristocrat James Annesley. The story captivated public attention and inspired at least five novels, including Robert Louis Stevenson\'s classic adventure tale <em>Kidnapped.</em>');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123463760&ft=1&f=1008" title="read..." target="_blank">Meet The Backwards-Speaking Girl</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on February 07, 2010 09:00:00 pm</span><br />');
document.write('Meghan Shea is a college student with an odd talent: she can read and speak backwards. Host Liane Hansen talks to Shea about her unusual linguistic ability, and picks up a few pointers.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123420779&ft=1&f=1008" title="read..." target="_blank">From Erdrich, A Page Turner With Deceit At Heart</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on February 07, 2010 01:00:00 pm</span><br />');
document.write('Louise Erdrich\'s new novel, <em>Shadow Tag,</em> is the story of a woman who writes two diaries &mdash; one that she knows her husband is reading, and one that she keeps secret. As she manipulates her husband, their marriage falls apart.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123448014&ft=1&f=1008" title="read..." target="_blank">Legendary Pasadena Playhouse Closes</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on February 07, 2010 04:00:00 am</span><br />');
document.write('Southern California\'s Pasadena Playhouse, a training ground for actors such as Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman, brings down the curtain for the last time this weekend. The theater is deep in debt and, barring a last-minute reprieve from supporters, will close after Sunday\'s performance of Camelot.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123375982&ft=1&f=1008" title="read..." target="_blank">1962: The Year Oscar Really Needed 10 Nominees</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on February 06, 2010 07:20:00 am</span><br />');
document.write('This year Hollywood nominated 10 films for Best Picture instead of the usual five, leaving some movie buffs feeling nostalgic for years that honestly could have used more Best Picture slots. Critic Bob Mondello points to one year in particular that had more than its share of potential contenders.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123439516&ft=1&f=1008" title="read..." target="_blank">Brautigan\'s Surreal Story: \'Trout Fishing In America\'</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on February 06, 2010 09:00:00 pm</span><br />');
document.write('The book <em>Trout Fishing in America</em> was published in 1967 and became an instant cult favorite. Guest host Audie Cornish speaks with writer and former national poet laureate Billy Collins about the book\'s author, Richard Brautigan. Collins describes Brautigan\'s writing as an American form of surrealism.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123408920&ft=1&f=1008" title="read..." target="_blank">Capturing England\'s Wild \'Red Riding\' On Film</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on February 06, 2010 05:20:00 am</span><br />');
document.write('In the complicated, often gory films of <em>The Red Riding Trilogy,</em> a serial killer and a rogue police force are both terrorizing a disillusioned Yorkshire town. Pat Dowell speaks with a director, the screenwriter and the novelist behind a startling cinematic epic &mdash; one based on a story that\'s entirely too true.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123383699&ft=1&f=1008" title="read..." target="_blank">Temple Grandin: The Woman Who Talks to Animals</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on February 06, 2010 01:42:00 am</span><br />');
document.write('Temple Grandin is one of the world\'s greatest animal behaviorists. She is also autistic &mdash; and has put that to work for her. Grandin has written several books on animals, including <em>Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior</em>. This weekend, HBO will premiere a made-for-TV movie based on her life.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123386624&ft=1&f=1008" title="read..." target="_blank">\'Love\' American Style: In Paris, Travolta Takes Names</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on February 06, 2010 01:40:00 am</span><br />');
document.write('Luc Besson\'s latest action fantasy, <em>From Paris With Love,</em> stars John Travolta as an FBI agent and Jonathan Rhys Myers as a diplomat trying to stop a terrorist attack in Paris. The story moves at warp speed &mdash; and it doesn\'t skimp on thrills.');
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