NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Mike Digiovanna, who covers the MLB for the Los Angeles Times, about the Dodgers securing 25-year-old Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who just became the highest paid pitcher in MLB.
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Burt Reynolds was able to live out his final years at his longtime Florida estate thanks to a loving landlord who helped him out of a financial crisis.
Here's the backstory -- Burt sold his home in 2015 to his friend and neighbor Charles Modica after years of money woes and a decade-long struggle to unload it, but Charles allowed him to stay there for the rest of his life . Read More...
Books blogFictionKafka's guilty pleasuresThere's no reason why his genius should be questioned because of his taste for pornographyQuite dark ... Anthony Perkins as Josef K in Orson Welles's 1983 film of The Trial. Photograph: Kobal
So the literary world, and perhaps some of the rest of it, is now astonished to learn that Franz Kafka, of all people, had a collection of surprisingly dirty pornography. Dr James Hawes, his latest biographer, has told us that it is not common-or-garden porn. Read More...