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Dear NPR: Whose Side Are You On?

Driving home from work yes­ter­day I caught a story on NPR about Michelle Obama’s efforts to pro­mote health and nutri­tion among young people. About halfway through the story, Michele Norris asked Joce­lyn Frye, the first lady’s policy direc­tor, this question:

But if chil­dren start eating less salt and sugar and fat, won’t those com­pa­nies be head­ing into a less prof­itable future?

Alan Shapiro on The State of Things

Tantalus in Love

Alan Shapiro was recently inter­viewed on WUNC’s The State of Things. Shapiro is the author of Tan­ta­lus in Love and The Last Happy Occa­sion and trans­lated The Oresteia.

Annie Dillard | The Maytrees

Annie Dillard - The Maytrees

The Maytrees, Annie Dillard’s new novel, is out. An ever-​expanding list of reviews fol­lows. Annie read a pas­sage of the novel for NPR and talked a little about the book (whose orig­i­nal sub­ti­tle was “A Roman­tic Comedy about Light Pollution”) in a Pub­lish­ers Weekly inter­view. She did another inter­view with the Wash­ing­ton Post’s Daniel Asa Rose. A chap­ter of the book orig­i­nally showed up as “The Two of Them” in the Nov ‘03 Harper’s.

Here’s the list of reviews:
+Wash­ing­ton Post Book World (by Mar­i­lynne Robinson)
+New York Times
+NYT Book Review
+Boston Globe
+LA Times
+SF Chronicle
+Slate
+Book­Page
+Pub­lish­ers Weekly
+New York Observer
+New York Daily News
+Miami Herald
+Seat­tle Times
+Cape Cod Times
+Cleve­land Plain Dealer
+Chicago Tribune
+USA Today
+Hart­ford Courant
+San Diego Union-​Tribune
+Wash­ing­ton Post (where Annie runs neck and neck with Toby Keith)

Buy it from your local inde­pen­dent book­store or sup­port this site by order­ing a copy from Amazon.

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