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British Mystery Writer Liza Cody Writes Women Unashamed of Their Bodies

Cody's new book Bucket Nut is her first featuring detective and wrestler Eva Wylie, known in the ring as "The London Lassasin." Cody's earlier series of mystery novels about London security officer Anna Lee, include Headcase, Stalker, Under Contract, and Backhand, which was shortlisted for this year's Edgar Award for Best Novel.

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Fresh Air with Terry Gross, May 3, 1993: Interview with Liza Cody; Interview with Jimmy Santiago Baca; Review of Milorad Pavic's book "The Inner Side of the Wind."
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Writer Jimmy Santiago Baca Before and After Prison

Baca co-wrote the screenplay for the new movie "Bound By Honor," about three young Chicano men from East Los Angeles and the different paths they take as they grow into adulthood. Baca is a Chicano who grew up in an orphanage in New Mexico and ended up in prison at the age of 20. He taught himself to read and write there. His collections of poetry include Black Mesa Poems and Immigrants in Our Own Land.

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Novelist Pat Barker.

British writer Pat Barker is best known for her "Regeneration" trilogy set in the shadows of WWI. In 1995,
she received the Booker Prize for its concluding novel, The Ghost Road. She has written the new novel "Another World." (Farrar, Straus, Giroux) Pat Barker grew up poor in the industrial North, once remarking that her decision to write about war was a deliberate response to patronizing reviews of her working-class settings in her earlier novels.

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Daughter of Warhol star looks back on a bohemian childhood in the Chelsea Hotel

Alexandra Auder's mother, Viva, was one of Andy Warhol's muses. Growing up in Warhol's orbit meant Auder's childhood was an unusual one. For several years, Viva, Auder and Auder's younger half-sister, Gaby Hoffmann, lived in the Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan. It was was famous for having been home to Leonard Cohen, Dylan Thomas, Virgil Thomson, and Bob Dylan, among others.

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This fake 'Jury Duty' really put James Marsden's improv chops on trial

In the series Jury Duty, a solar contractor named Ronald Gladden has agreed to participate in what he believes is a documentary about the experience of being a juror--but what Ronald doesn't know is that the whole thing is fake.

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This Romanian film about immigration and vanishing jobs hits close to home

R.M.N. is based on an actual 2020 event in Ditrău, Romania, where 1,800 villagers voted to expel three Sri Lankans who worked at their local bakery.

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