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In 1986, when her mother died at the age of sixty-four, Eleanor Reissa went through all of her belongings. In the back of her mother’s lingerie drawer, she found an old leather purse. Inside that purse was a large wad of folded papers. They were letters. Fifty-six of them. In German. Written in 1949. Letters from her father to her mother, when they were courting. Just four years earlier, he had fought to stay alive in Auschwitz and on the Death March -- while she had spent the war years suffering in Uzbekistan. Thirty years later, Eleanor finally had the letters translated. The particulars of those letters sent her off on an unimaginable adventure into the past.
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Shirley Jackson is one of the most important American authors of the last hundred years and among our greatest chroniclers of the female experience. The…
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Kurt Vonnegut’s eldest daughter, Edith, was cleaning out her mother’s attic when she stumbled upon a dusty, aged box. Inside, she discovered an unexpected…
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Renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is the author of the New York Times best-selling book, “Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.” His new book,…
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What do Susan B. Anthony, Alexander Graham Bell, Emily Dickinson, Frederick Douglass, Amelia Earhart, Helen Keller, Leonard Nimoy, Elizabeth Taylor,…
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Kelly Osbourne has lived her entire life in the spotlight. As the daughter of one of the world’s best-known rock stars, she appeared alongside her family…
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This listener essay is by Jean Bolgatz.Surprise in the AtticRyan, our grandson, needed pictures of his great grandparents for a school assignment, so I…
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Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience is a collection of more than 125 letters offers a…
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Dan Wakefield joins us to talk about Kurt Vonnegut: Letters . This extraordinary collection of personal correspondence has all the hallmarks of Kurt…