Arts & Culture

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Scott Sandage: "Born Losers" (Harvard University Press)

March 28, 2005

The American Dream stresses winning over losing. But not everyone makes it. A historian examines the flip side of success through the stories of dreamers, suckers, and other misfits.

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Gene Wilder: "Kiss Me Like A Stranger" (St. Martin's)

March 24, 2005

The star of such classic film comedies as "The Producers," "Young Frankenstein," "Blazing Saddles," and "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" talks about a side of his life the public hasn't seen on...

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Readers Review: Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman"

March 16, 2005

The play opened on Broadway 56 years ago and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1949...

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Marilynne Robinson: "Gilead" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

March 11, 2005

Twenty-four years have passed since her first critically acclaimed novel. Marilynne Robinson presents her long-awaited second novel about an aging minister reflecting on his abolitionist ancestors, spirituality, and the mysteries of life.

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Ellen Langer: "On Becoming an Artist" (Ballantine)

March 10, 2005

Many people only dream of making music, painting, or writing. A Harvard professor of psychology shares her journey as an untaught painter and outlines ways for everyone to defeat obstacles to the creative life.

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Leah Hager Cohen: "Without Apology" (Random House)

March 4, 2005

Until she visited downtown Boston's Somerville Boxing Club, the writer regarded boxing with disgust. Her opinion changed after she met four adolescent girls and their trainer. She describes what she learned in the gym about herself...

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Rembrandt's Late Religious Paintings

March 1, 2005

Seventeen enigmatic religious portraits by Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn, produced in the last years of his life, have been assembled for the first time in an exhibit at the National Gallery of Art. Diane and her guests discuss the...

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U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser

February 25, 2005

The poet laureate of the United States joins Diane to talk about how to go from wanting to be a poet to actually writing poetry.

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Talk Show Host Cristina Saralegui

February 24, 2005

Cuban-born TV host Cristina Saralegui is often referred to as "the Hispanic Oprah," because of her popular talk show, seen throughout the Spanish-speaking world. Diane meets the woman whose multimedia empire also includes a...

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Readers' Review: Edward Jones' "The Known World"

February 16, 2005

This month's readers' review takes a look at slavery, property, freedom, and family through an unusual lens. Winner of the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Fiction Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, "The Known World" by...

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