Mentions — January 11, 2013, 6:11 pm
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On NPR’s Fresh Air yesterday, author Barry Lopez had a lengthy discussion with Terry Gross about “Sliver of Sky,” his essay about the sexual abuse he suffered as a child, which appears in the January 2013 issue of Harper’s Magazine.
Lopez describes in the story and to Gross the years he spent suffering at the hands of Dr. Harry Shier, a man renowned in Southern California in the Fifties for his work treating alcoholics; his failed attempt to have Shier arrested when he was a teenager; and the decades he has spent trying to come to terms with the abuse.
A summary, transcript, and audio file of the interview are available here.
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Précis — May 20, 2013, 9:00 am
“The smart question is not ‘How we can ban more guns?’ but ‘How can we live more safely among the millions of guns already floating around?’ ”
Years of consideration preceding the inclusion of the word “phat” in Random House’s 1996 Compact Unabridged Dictionary:
Scientists created crash helmets that stink when cracked and fruit flies to whom blue light smells delicious.
In Belize, a construction company bulldozed a 2,300-year-old Mayan temple to make road fill.
“This is the heart of the magic factory, the place where medicine is infused with the miracles of science, and I’ve come to see how it’s done.”
