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A tale inspired by the U.S. AIDS epidemic in the 1980s follows the experiences of individuals — including the bisexual narrator — who are torn by devastating losses and whose perspectives on tolerance and love are shaped by awareness of what might have been.
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The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
The Diane Rehm Show: Robert Caro & The Passage of Power
Morning Edition: Caro’s ‘Passage of Power’
Examines Lyndon Johnson’s volatile relationships with John and Robert Kennedy, describes JFK’s assassination from Johnson’s viewpoint and recounts his accomplishments as president before they were overshadowed by the Vietnam War.
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Listen to Marketplace The Diane Rehm Show: David Wolman
Money. It’s the bills we pay. It’s the debt we’re in. It’s the paycheck we get every week or two. But day to day, mostly it’s cash.
David Wolman’s been thinking about cash a lot lately. And he doesn’t like it one bit. His new book is called, appropriately enough, “The End of Money.” David, welcome to the program.
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Going Solo: the Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone byEric Klineberg
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For the first time in centuries, the majority of all American adults are single. They will spend more of their adult life unmarried than married, and for much of this time they will live alone. The global numbers of people living alone is also skyrocketing, especially in urban areas of the Scandinavian countries, western Europe and Japan. A New York University sociologist examined the factors behind this trend, and how it is transforming our communities. He joins Diane to discuss the challenges and opportunities of the biggest demographic shift since the baby boom.
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Something Almost Being Said by Simone Dinnerstein
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Simone Dinnerstein’s new album, Something Almost Being Said: Music of Bach and Schubert, combines J.S. Bach’s Partitas Nos. 1 and 2 with Schubert’s Four Impromptus, Op. 90, and was produced by Grammy® Award-winning producer Adam Abeshouse. Dinnerstein says of her new album, “Bach and Schubert, to my ears, share a distinctive quality. Their non-vocal music has a powerful narrative, a vocal element. The effect is that of wordless voices singing text-less melodies. Bach and Schubert’s melodic lines are so fluent, so expressive, and so minutely inflected that they sound as though they might at any moment burst suddenly into speech.” Inspired by lines from Philip Larkin’s poem, The Trees, Simone Dinnerstein brings her own unique voice to Bach’s first two Partitas and Schubert’s Four Impromptus revealing the inherent vocal qualities in these instrumental works.
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