Weekend Edition
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Kick off your weekend with wrap-ups of the week's news with a mix of analysis and features on a wide range of topics, including arts, sports, entertainment, and human interest. Be sure to tune in every Sunday for the Sunday Puzzle!
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Musician Henry "Gip" Gipson died this week. He ran a legendary blues juke joint in Bessemer, Ala.
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Elizabeth Strout won a Pulitzer Prize for her 2008 novel that spun together 13 connected stories of love, loss and loneliness. She returns to the small town of Crosby, Maine in Olive, Again.
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Brian Jones of Jacksonville, Fla., plays this week's puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro. -
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro pays a visit to Larch Hanson, who has been harvesting wild seaweed in Maine for more than 40 years.
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Forget Kindles and e-readers. Now you can get great books on Instagram courtesy of the New York Public Library. Manager of Reader Services Lynn Lobash explains this latest outreach to young readers.
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NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to The Washington Post's Margaret Sullivan and New York Times columnist Farhad Manjoo about how media messaging is forming public opinion on the impeachment inquiry.
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NPR'S Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Leigh Bardugo about her new novel, Ninth House.
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Pennsylvania Republican Brian Fitzpatrick is an ex-FBI agent who investigated corruption in Ukraine. Now left-leaning voters in his swing district want him to help in investigate the president.
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Bears preparing for hibernation need to eat as much as they can for the winter. In Alaska, this habit has turned into an Ursine March Madness with bears going head-to-head to see who is the fattest. -
Over 200 priests, bishops and nuns are gathering at the Vatican for a three-week meeting focusing on the Amazon. Among the topics: ordaining older, married men to serve in remote communities.
