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 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.
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.
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