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BookTV

by LFTW on September 28, 2010

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On September 26, C-Span2′s BookTV filmed Jonathan Weiner as he spoke about his new book at Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C. Watch it here.

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Sloane Crosley’s Once-a-Decade Bonus Year

by LFTW on August 18, 2010

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Assuming that you remained healthy—imagine the vitality of a 30-year-old—would you want to live for 200, 500, or 1,000 years? Sloane Crosley, bestselling author of I Was Told There’d Be Cake and How Did You Get This Number, isn’t so sure.

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The Kingdom Where Everybody Lived Forever

by LFTW on July 12, 2010

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“So,” begins Aimee Bender’s first novel, An Invisible Sign of My Own. “There was this kingdom once where everybody lived forever. They’d discovered the secret of eternal life, and because of that, there were no cemeteries, no hospitals, no funeral parlors, no books in the bookstore about death and grieving. Instead, the bookstore was full of pamphlets about how to be a righteous citizen without fear of an afterlife.”

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Illness, Wellness, and the People You Love

by LFTW on July 8, 2010

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Jenn Northington of breathe books in Baltimore considers the potential for extraordinarily long life spans in light of a loved one’s recent health scare.

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One family’s conversation

by LFTW on June 30, 2010

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“The earth, I’m guessing, would not become overpopulated because by then we would have technology to live under water maybe, possibly to live in the air.”

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I want to grow old

by LFTW on June 14, 2010

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“I work with the elderly. I work in a skilled nursing facility, and I see a lot of people at end of life. And I think unless you’re exposed to that there’s this perception that it’s this horrible, horrific thing. Nobody wants to live out their years in a nursing home. Nobody wants to grow [...]

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