A collection of stories tagged 'essays' from NPR. http://www.reverbiage.com/ Copyright 2006 Reverbiage.com. Reverbiage is not affiliated with NPR nor its member stations. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:50:38 EST Beginning in 1951, radio pioneer Edward R. Murrow asked Americans from all walks of life to write essays about their most fundamental and closely held beliefs. Half a century later, NPR, Atlantic Public Media and This I Believe, Inc. are partnering to recreate 'This I Believe' on the air and online. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/846 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4538138 Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:00:00 EST The beginning of January marks the deadline for most college admissions applications. The Unversity of Virginia's freshmen may not be anxious to revisit this period, but they can anyway: A play called Voices of the Class, 2009 offers adaptations of their application essays. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/995 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5058594 Sat, 17 Dec 2005 00:00:00 EST Leisure suits, big hair and the Bee Gees are just part of the draw of a new book, Bar Mitzvah Disco. Essays from Jonathan Safran Foer, Sarah Silverman and others document bar and bat mitzvahs from the 1970s through the '90s. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/1009 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5049433 Tue, 13 Dec 2005 00:00:00 EST A new book collects the profiles and essays of Marjorie Williams, including some she wrote about the cancer that eventually claimed her life. Her husband, Timothy Noah, discusses The Woman at the Washington Zoo. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/1105 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5029873 Mon, 28 Nov 2005 00:00:00 EST Author John Updike's new book,Still Looking, collects many of his essays on American art. Susan Stamberg recently talked to Updike about the book, and his relationship with art. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/1874 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5006080 Thu, 10 Nov 2005 00:00:00 EST At the center of the book is the battle between obligation to one's community and the obligation to one's individual interests and needs. It's that tension that produces guilt -- and it's the springboard for a collection of delightful essays. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/1906 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4986274 Wed, 02 Nov 2005 00:00:00 EST Writer David Rakoff has a new collection of essays, Now, Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, the Torments of Low Thread Count, the Never-ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems. Rakoff is a regular contributor to public radio's This American Life. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/2026 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4867332 Wed, 28 Sep 2005 00:00:00 EDT Read original essays, Q&As and more from NPR correspondents on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/4727 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4834673 Mon, 26 Sep 2005 00:00:00 EDT From Player Piano to Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut has entranced readers with his incisive and often sardonic view of world events. He talks about A Man Without a Country, a new book of essays and speeches. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/2088 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4839818 Sun, 11 Sep 2005 00:00:00 EDT Tom Mathews' father was a veteran of the 10th Mountain Division in World War II. His book, Our Fathers' War, contains essays exploring how the conflict affected filial relations for 10 men who served. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/2106 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4828744 Sat, 03 Sep 2005 00:00:00 EDT A 'Field Guide' to Losing and Finding Yourself July 20, 2005 · Day to Day book critic David Kipen reviews A Field Guide to Getting Lost, a series of autobiographical essays by cultural historian Rebecca Solnit that touch on the process of finding -- and losing -- yourself. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/3714 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4762519 Wed, 20 Jul 2005 00:00:00 EDT Tim Brookes, who occasionally contributes essays to NPR, is also a passionate and talented guitar player. He has just published Guitar: An American Life, which he describes as part history and part love song. He talks about what he learned in working on the book. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/4632 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4671163 Sun, 29 May 2005 00:00:00 EDT Writer James Atlas' new book is a collection of essays called My Life in the Middle Ages: A Survivor's Tale. James Atlas is the founding editor of the Lipper/Viking Penguin Lives Series. He writes for The New Yorker. He was also an editor at The New York Times Magazine. His work has appeared in many publications, including The New York Review of Books, The London Review of Books, and Vanity Fair. He is the author of Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet, which was nominated for the National Book Award. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/5794 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4557217 Wed, 23 Mar 2005 00:00:00 EST In Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith, the latest collection of personal essays from Anne Lamott, the author picks up where her last book, the bestselling Traveling Mercies, left off. She talks with NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/5896 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4536798 Wed, 16 Mar 2005 00:00:00 EST In over 30 years of traveling, writer Eric Hansen has met some odd characters. He details some of his most memorable explorations in a new book of essays called The Bird Man and the Lap Dancer. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/6585 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4239255 Sun, 06 Feb 2005 00:00:00 EST Author Susan Sontag died Tuesday in Manhattan, after a long struggle with cancer. Sontag was the author of many essays and 17 widely translated books. She wrote about photography and AIDS, film and choreography, Vietnam and the Sept. 11 attacks. Her novel In America won the National Book Award for fiction. Sontag was 71. Hear NPR's Kim Masters. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/12294 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4249141 Wed, 29 Dec 2004 00:00:00 EST David Sedaris is the author of the best-selling collections Barrel Fever, Naked and Me Talk Pretty One Day. His essays appear regularly in print in The New Yorker, Esquire and GQ and can be heard on the radio on This American Life. We rebroadcast a June 15,2004, interview with Sedaris. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/7236 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4247938 Tue, 28 Dec 2004 00:00:00 EST Susan Sontag, known for her essays and political activism, dies at 71 in Manhattan. Sontag authored 17 books and was considered one of America's leading intellectuals. NPR's Kim Masters has an appreciation. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/12386 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4248388 Tue, 28 Dec 2004 00:00:00 EST The new book Living With Jazz: A Reader, is the first collection of Dan Morgenstern's writing, including liner notes, record and concert reviews, critical essays and other writings. Morgenstern has been on the jazz scene for more than 40 years; his writing has won four Grammys. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/9609 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4240727 Wed, 22 Dec 2004 00:00:00 EST It's not easy to place author and polemicist Christopher Hitchens into a particular ideological camp. The man who accuses former Secretary of State Henry Kissenger of war crimes is himself considered a "hawk" to many on the left. Hitchens joins NPR's Tavis Smiley to discuss his latest book, Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/7365 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4227247 Tue, 14 Dec 2004 00:00:00 EST Edmund White has been writing about gay culture in fiction and nonfiction since the 1970s. His new book is a collection of his essays, Arts and Letters. White is director of the creative writing program at Princeton University. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/8113 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4163302 Wed, 10 Nov 2004 00:00:00 EST Famed essayist and columnist Stanley Crouch believes the concept of authenticity is not easy for all Americans to grasp -- and that's a problem. He dissects the dilemma in his new book The Artificial White Man: Essays on Authenticity. Hear NPR's Tavis Smiley and Crouch. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/8313 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4128633 Wed, 27 Oct 2004 00:00:00 EDT NPR's Scott Simon talks to Lawrence Weschler about his new collection of essays Vermeer in Bosnia. Weschler's topics range from the war crimes trials in Bosnia to the unique quality of light in the paintings of Johannes Vermeer, and in Los Angeles. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/14780 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4058327 Sat, 02 Oct 2004 00:00:00 EDT Crime writer James Ellroy's books cover the seamy side of Los Angeles life -- obsession, murder and Hollywood after dark. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to the self-proclaimed "demon dog of literature" about his new collection of essays and short fiction, Destination: Morgue!: L.A. Tales. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/14785 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4056386 Fri, 01 Oct 2004 00:00:00 EDT In a series of essays, commentator Steve Coll reflects on how terrorism binds voters in America, Afghanistan and Pakistan. His new book Ghost Wars chronicles the CIA's covert history in Afghanistan and Osama bin Laden's rise. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/8788 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3853553 Wed, 15 Sep 2004 00:00:00 EDT