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Former paramedic Kevin Hazzard says he received "zero training" before driving an ambulance for the first time.

Paramedic Shares His Wild Ride Treating 'A Thousand Naked Strangers'

5:15pm January 05, 2016

Kevin Hazzard, who worked as an Atlanta paramedic, rescued people from choking, overdoses, cardiac arrest, gunshot wounds and a host of other medical emergencies. Respiratory calls were his favorites.

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Foundation In Austin, Texas, Subsidizes Mental Health Care For Musicians

5:05pm January 05, 2016

by Wade Goodwyn

Musicians who are dealing with mental health and substance abuse problems in Austin, Texas, can get help from an organization there that provides reduced cost care --basically whatever the musicians can afford to pay-- from cooperating doctors and therapists.

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Steven Avery served 18 years in prison for sexual assault. He was exonerated by DNA evidence in 2003.

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Over 10 Years, 2 Filmmakers Documented The 'Making' Of A Murderer

3:57pm January 05, 2016

by NPR Staff

Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi were film students when they started working on their 10-part Netflix series about Steven Avery. "We had no money, but what we did have was time," Demos says.

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Graphic Novelist Named National Ambassador For Young People's Literature

2:30pm January 05, 2016

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with Gene Yang about becoming the first graphic novelist to be named the Library of Congress' National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.

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Glittering 'Past' Channels Chekhov

1:43pm January 05, 2016

by Heller McAlpin

Tessa Hadley's new novel follows four siblings as they gather at a dilapidated family cottage for a bittersweet summer together. Critic Heller McAlpin praises Hadley's "wry compassion."

Author Gene Luen Yang is the author of books including American Born Chinese and Level Up.

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The War Over Comics For Kids Is Nearly Over, And Kids Are Winning

12:13pm January 05, 2016

by Glen Weldon

The selection of graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang as the latest National Ambassador for Young People's Literature signals an important shift in the effort to reunite kids and comics.

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Food Culture Gives Rise To New 'Eatymology'

8:01pm January 04, 2016

by NPR Staff

From brogurt to gastrosexual, humorist and food writer Josh Friedland has collected many of the new words born of our current foodie culture in a new food dictionary, Eatymology.

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What Mattered In Media In 2015

3:07pm January 04, 2016

by Eric Deggans

NPR TV critic Eric Deggans looks at some of the moments, from Trump to Brian Williams, that made a difference in media in the past year.

To mark the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death, the Folger Shakespeare Library is sending the first printed collection of all his plays out on tour.

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400 Years After His Death, Shakespeare's First Folio Goes Out On Tour

2:38pm January 04, 2016

by Susan Stamberg

The First Folio is the first printed collection of all of Shakespeare's plays, assembled by two of his buddies after he died. Without it, plays like Macbeth and Twelfth Night might not have survived.

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Author Profiles The 'Traumatized People' Living In The World's Largest Refugee Camp

2:35pm January 04, 2016

Founded in 1991 as a temporary shelter for Somalis, the Dadaab complex in Kenya now houses nearly half a million refugees. Ben Rawlence profiles nine of its residents in his new book, City of Thorns.

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