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Monkey See
8:02 am
Wed June 20, 2012

Silverdocs: 'The Imposter' And The Mystery Of The Nervous Laughter

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This is not Nicholas Barclay.
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They really give it away in the title, don't they?

In 1994, a 13-year-old boy named Nicholas Barclay disappeared in Texas. In 1997, a man showed up in Spain and claimed to be the 16-year-old Nicholas. He wasn't – he was a 23-year-old con man – but he managed to get himself brought to the United States with a passport in Nicholas' name. He moved in with Nicholas' family. They accepted him as Nicholas.

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Kitchen Window
6:43 am
Wed June 20, 2012

A Twist On Tea And Cookies

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By Monica Bhide

As a child, I never appreciated the joy of tea. In fact, I never really had the chance, as my grandmother would say, "Children should not be drinking tea; it is not good for them." If it had been any other beverage, I would have fought with her, but I didn't care enough about tea. I did, however, outgrow that stage. I began to experiment with different teas and learn how to flavor tea with my real passion: spices.

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Book Reviews
6:03 am
Wed June 20, 2012

A Question Unanswered: 'How Should A Person Be?'

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Toronto author Sheila Heti is also the interviews editor at The Believer.
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Originally published on Wed June 20, 2012 9:36 am

The unexamined life isn't worth living, according to Socrates, and you'd be hard-pressed to find a writer who disagrees. Few, though, have taken it to the extreme that Toronto author Sheila Heti does with How Should a Person Be? The relentlessly introspective "novel from life" earned critical raves when it was released in Canada in 2010. The book chronicles Heti's struggle — sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking — to answer the seemingly simple questions: "What was the right way to react to people? Who was I to talk to at parties? How was I to be?"

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New In Paperback
6:03 am
Wed June 20, 2012

New In Paperback June 18-24

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Fiction and nonfiction releases from Michael Ondaatje, Lev Grossman and Ron Suskind.

Copyright 2012 National Public Radio. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.

Monkey See
4:14 pm
Tue June 19, 2012

Theater Diary: The After-Action Report

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Miriam Shor, late of TV's recently cancelled GCB, played the fairy godmother at this year's Broadway Bares charity strip-a-thon. We are sorry, but this is more or less the only photo we can show you from the event.
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Knock on wood: Pinocchio (Matthew Skrincosky, center) gets manhandled by a bevy of scantily clad chorus boys.
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OK, we might be able to get away with this one last picture. Were these dwarves? They might have been dwarves.
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Originally published on Wed June 20, 2012 3:35 pm

The last few days of my post-Tonys theater week were so jam-packed that there was no time to write up what I was doing. Matinees, cabarets, stand-ups, burlesques, benefit readings; it was a mad dash of a weekend. So here goes, with the recap — and a few recommendations for things to try next time you get to New York:

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