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One of the Most Pleasurable Albums of the Year
Husband and wife duo Cecil and Linda Womack's new album Conscience updates the classic soul sound for the 1980s. Rock critic Ken Tucker says it reveals the pain and devotion associated with long-term relationships.
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Lone star ticks are covering much of the U.S. Here's what you need to know
(1.) Journalist BURKARD BILGER is a staff writer for The New Yorker. In a new article titled The Tick That Hunts Down its Hosts, Including Us, he reports on what we know about how the tick operates, how it has multiplied and vastly extended its territory and how it affects the people it feeds on, and the latest ideas about how to limit the infestation and treat people with alpha gal syndrome which the tick causes. BILGER is also the author of the 2023 book Fatherland, about his German grandfather, who joined the Nazi Party, but worked with the French resistance.
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Enter Me
The Perfect Moment' makes the case that culture wars have 'completely eaten America'
ISAAC BUTLER is the author of The Perfect Moment: God, Sex, Art, and the Birth of America's Culture Wars. It focuses on the religious right attacks on certain books, art and film of the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. His previous books The World Only Spins Forward - about the play Angels in America. And The Method, about the history of the acting technique known as the method. We recorded the interview last Thursday. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW).