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Segment 1: A preview of Making Movies' latest albumMaking Movies, a Kansas City band, has a new album that's catching a lot of attention for reviving a…
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Segment 1: Education and the Holocaust.What's the best way to preserve the memories and lessons of a really painful past? We'll hear from two people…
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Segment 1: Growing up poor in the Heartland.Local journalist and author Sarah Smarsh has been getting a lot of national attention for her new book,…
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Love is hard to define — so how do you analyze a whole literary genre with rules built around the concept? Today, KCUR's 'Bibliofiles' explain the themes,…
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Some see memoir writing as a shameless act of navel-gazing. Fair enough . . . But a great memoir is about more than the person who wrote it. It's about…
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Scott Simon, journalist and longtime host of Weekend Edition Saturday, is known for his calm, civilized demeanor, but that attitude quickly changes when…
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Poetry smut queen Patricia Lockwood recently spent some time in her childhood home in Lawrence, Kansas. She joins us to talk about her recent New Yorker…
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We might be breaking kayfabe in saying so, but it's well-known that most professional wrestling is three parts theater, one part combat. While the moves…
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Author Jen Lancaster has learned never to take a Prada bag to the unemployment office or wear a fur coat to the animal shelter. She's lived like Martha…
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After spending his childhood in abject poverty, Dr. William Reed eventually climbed his way to director of Cardiac Surgery at KU Medical Center. In his…
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Former First Lady, U.S. Senator and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visited Kansas City on Sunday June 21 where she spoke with Rainy Day Books…
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It can be a lonely, difficult life when you’re a farmer on the high plains of western Kansas.On Wednesday's Up to Date, we discuss a new memoir about a…