WBUR Newsroom Election 2008 CommonHealth Blog Boston Weather BBC World News NPR Top Stories NPR's Morning Edition NPR Topics: Books NPR Topics: Movies Fresh Air All Things Considered Marketplace Submit a Story Idea RSS Feeds Podcasts  Topics: Books Farewell Opus; Hello Pete, The Perfectly Practical Pig Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:37:00 -0400 After 30 years, cartoonist Berkeley Breathed is bidding adieu to his charming, politically astute penguin of Bloom County and Opus. His new project is Pete & Pickles, a children's book about a very sad pig. Real | Windows Artist Macaulay Decodes Body In 'Way We Work' Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:53:00 -0400 Best-selling author and illustrator David Macaulay takes a head-to-toe trip in The Way We Work: Getting to Know the Amazing Human Body. He says illustrating how we work was so difficult, he almost gave up. Real | Windows Can't Get Enough? Books To Feed Your Election Fix Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:52:00 -0400 Are you experiencing political addiction? Signs include an obsession with the electoral map, overuse of the phrase "game-changer" and a trance-like fixation on Nov. 4. If this could be you, then we have three books to feed your habit. Real | Windows Obama Biography Spotlights Potential First Lady Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:51:00 -0400 To national audience, Michelle Obama is well-known because of her husband's presidential candidacy. But the attorney and businesswoman has an impressive and distinguished career of her own. Liza Mundy, author of Michelle, a new biography of Michelle Obama, writes about the Chicago native's professional aspirations and how they coincided with her Sen. Barack Obama's political journey. Real | Windows Extra! Extra! Unionist Bombs Wreck The 'Times' Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:24:00 -0400 Radical bombers battle strikebreaking capitalists while Clarence Darrow squares off against the "American Sherlock Holmes" in this very popular history of a trial that mixed murder, politics and celebrity in 1910 Los Angeles. Real | Windows Rabbi's Son Visits Bible Belt In 'My Jesus Year' Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:20:00 -0400 In an effort to reconnect with his Jewish faith, Georgia-native Benyamin Cohen explored the Christianity across the "Bible Belt" of America. He documented his experiences in My Jesus Year: A Rabbi's Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith. Real | Windows Is America 'Too Insular' For A Literary Nobel? Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:12:00 -0400 Horace Engdahl, a Nobel Prize official, commented on Wednesday that the United States is "too isolated" and "too insular" to generate literary Nobel laureates. He said Europe remains the "center of the literary world." Real | Windows Nikki Giovanni Says Hip Hop Essential For Kids Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:56:00 -0400 In her latest project, poet and wordsmith Nikki Giovanni brings together poetry and hip hop, in an effort to reach young ears. NPR's Tony Cox speaks with Giovanni about the new book, Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat. Real | Windows				Sponsor