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Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., (center) attends a luncheon with other GOP senators and President Trump on July 19 at the White House. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP hide caption
Sen. Jeff Flake: 'As Conservatives, Our First Obligation Is To Be Honest'
Looking Back At The Most Powerful Earthquake Ever To Strike North America
A Veteran TV News Anchor Pens A Prescient Novel In 'Amanda Wakes Up'
Bao Phi hopes his poetry book Thousand Star Hotel and his children's book A Different Pond can fill the hole in Asian-American literature that he saw when he was a kid. Anna Min/Courtesy of Capstone Publishing hide caption
The Poet Bao Phi, On Creating A 'Guidebook' For Young Asian-Americans
Maurice Sendak wrote and illustrated Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen. The illustration above is from Presto and Zesto in Limboland, a book he completed with his friend Arthur Yorinks more than 20 years ago. Sendak died in 2012. Copyright 2017 by The Maurice Sendak Foundation hide caption
Collaborator Says Sendak Would Be 'Jumping For Joy' Over New Publication
Billy Bragg says he initially pursued songwriting as a way to escape working in the local car factory. Andy Whale/Courtesy of Faber & Faber hide caption
Billy Bragg On Skiffle, The Movement That Brought Guitar To British Radio
London Literally Stank In The Summer Of 1858 — Just Ask Dickens And Darwin
Inside The 'Shakespearean Irony' Of Trump And Bannon's Relationship
Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake & Palmer, an essential prog-rock band derided in the 1970s by critic Lester Bangs. Chris Walter/WireImage/Getty Images hide caption