NHPR and The Music Hall present Writers on a New England Stage with Anthony Doerr , recorded live at The Music Hall in Portsmouth. Doerr's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All the Light We Cannot See tells the stories of two teenagers swept up in the brutality of World War II. Much has been made of the fact that the book was a ten-year journey for Doerr, but during our conversation, it became clear that that novel was just one facet--and one result--of his free-range inquisitiveness and sense of

On today's show: The Monadnock International Film Festival kicks off today, April 20 and runs through Sunday, April 23. More info on screenings and tickets here . We talked to the creator and host of the podcast Whatever Happened to Pizza at McDonalds? Brian Thompson . Producer Jimmy Gutierrez checked in with Slam Free or Die at Stark Brewing during the second round of semi-finals. You can see the team finals tonight at Stark, doors open at 7 and performances start at 8. Ornette Coleman: The

On today's show: Civics 101: The IRS Kids' Money Making Schemes. Listen to this story again at PRX.org . Norm Stamper , former police officer and chief, talks about his book To Protect and Serve: How to Fix America's Police . The Bookshelf: Poet Alice Fogel

On today's show: Civics 101: Veto "Crazy Bet" from producer Nate DiMeo and The Memory Palace . Listen again at PRX.org. Clarinetist and composer Kinan Azmeh was born in Damascus, but now lives in New York, where he wakes up to bad news each day. He’s going to be performing with the Kinan Azmeh CityBand at Phillips Academy Exeter tonight at 7:00pm and at the West Claremont Center for Music and the Arts tomorrow, April 19 th at 6:30pm to celebrate the band's 10th season together. This is our

On today's show: Eric Liu is founder and CEO of Citizens University and author of the new book You're More Powerful Than You Think . He’ll be talking about the book at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester on Friday evening, April 21 at 6:00 pm. Journalist and author Rinker Buck talked with us about his book, The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey , part history, part travelogue , and part family memoir. Listen again. Meaghen Brown is an Associate Editor at Outside Magazine, where she wrote

On today's show: Dara Lind looked into how those tensions may affect the rate of homicides being solved. She wrote about it for Vox : “ Police Are Solving a Lot Fewer Murder Cases Than They Used To .” Anne Marie Zanfagna is a New Hampshire based artist who has begun painting portraits of those who have died because of drug overdoses in the state. Read more and see pictures of Anne Marie's paintings here: Portraits of Those Killed By Heroin Bring Healing and Awareness How to Choose a Partner is a

On today's show: Civics 101: Gerrymandering "George Jones: He Stopped Loving Her Today" from producers Ben Manilla and Devon Strolovitch. Listen again at PRX.org . Sushma Subramanian wrote about the legacy left behind in Guatemala, 70 years after American researchers infected locals with syphilis and gonorrhea in her article "Worse Than Tuskegee" . "AKA Leo" from Nate DiMeo and The Memory Palace . Listen again at PRX.org .

On today's show: Civics 101: Congressional Investigations The Secret Language of Insects from Seacoast Reporter Jason Moon Extreme Do-Gooders: Larissa MacFarquhar , staff writer for The New Yorker, profiles extreme "do-gooders" in a new book called Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices and the Overpowering Urge to Help . "Unleavened Alaska: Passover in the Last Frontier" from producer Rebecca Sheir . Listen to this story at PRX.org .

On today's show: Dana Goodyear joined us to talk about an article she wrote for The New Yorker about the Mountain Lions of Los Angeles . A Series of Tubes with Rob Fleischman A Winter/Mud Season Meal with Keith Sarasin The Denver Braille Challenge. Listen again at prx.org .

I’m in a food rut. I really do love to cook, and love the idea of eating locally-sourced food, but by mud season my culinary motivation—and taste for squash and potatoes—grows stale.