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Poet Doc Patrick Clary, Dying For Beginners. At the heart of this poetry by Patrick Clary are often tough and sometimes terrible details, generated out of an intensely lived, closely observed life as an unarmed medic in platoons patrolling the jungles of Vietnam, an intern in the hospital emergency rooms of New York City, and a nationally recognized Poet-Doctor ministering tothe spiritual and bodily pains of theterminally ill in New Hampshire. His first book of poetry, Notes from a Loveletter, was published under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

BookReport: Once Upon A Gypsy Moon by Michael Hurley. World class solo sailor Arnet Taylor and iReadNet video news editor-in-chief Kurt Aldag discuss Michael Hurley's sailing memoir, Once Upon A Gypsy Moon.

Calvin Trillin wins the 2012 Thurber Prize for American Humor. New Yorker humorist Calvin Trillin reflects on his campaign to make spaghetti carbonara the official dish of Thanksgiving.

Aline and R. Crumb are more than a little 'Drawn Together'. Aline Crumb tells the story of how she and the legendary R. Crumb have been more than a little 'drawn together' for more than forty years.

Harlan Coben.