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Jul 17, 2011 — NPR coverage of Clever Maids: The Secret History of The Grimm Fairy Tales by Valerie Paradiz. News, author interviews, critics' picks and more.
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Dec 16, 2005 — At a time of year defined by buying and exchanging presents, favorites both old and new demand attention. Among the recommendations from book critic Maureen Corrigan: the novels The Ice Harvest by Scott Phillips and The History of Love by Nicole Krauss.
Dec 16, 2005 — But cancer was a disease for other people, older people-sick people, for God's sake. I was thirty-seven and in good health, so it wasn't even a possibility lurking in the corners of my imagination on that hot July afternoon, my son's fifth birthday. I had placed five candles on the cake and was just putting on the sixth for good luck when the phone rang.
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Mar 6, 2005 — Valerie Paradiz's new book is Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales In it, Paradiz challenges the stories of the Brothers Grimm traveling the German countryside collecting folktales. She credits over half of the 200 tales published to woman collaborators.
Nov 14, 2004 — Harlem Renaissance fixture Zora Neale Hurston, author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, is the subject of a new biography by her niece. Speak, So You Can Speak Again includes a CD of family photos and audio recordings. Lucy Ann Hurston tells NPR's Liane Hansen about her aunt's literary legacy.
