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The Congressional hearings on the Jan. 6 insurrection are being staged for TV consumption very differently than in the past — and most networks are taking them live. Fox News is the exception.

collePoet MARK DOTY. He won the 1994 National Book Critics Circle award for his poetry ction, My Alexandria (University of Illinois Press). He is currently a Fannie Hearst Visiting Professor at Brandeis University. INTERVIEW TWOESSEX HEMPHILL is the author of two books of poetry, "Earth Life" and "Conditions," and a collection of prose and poetry called "Ceremonies." He's also the editor of "Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men." He's reading from his work "Vital Signs," published in the collection "Life Sentences: Writers, Artists, and AIDS," edited by Thomas Avena (Mercury House).

2: Novelist ELMORE LEONARD. He's 70 years old and has been called "the greatest living writer of crime fiction" (New York Times). Though he'd been writing for decades, critics didn't take notice of him until the 1980s. Now his work is known for it tight prose, "ear-perfect" dialogue and depiction of lower class life. LEONARD's written thirty-two novels, including the bestsellers Pronto, Maximum Bob, and Get Shorty which has been made into a film, starring John Travolta and Gene Hackman.

Spurred by a string of bad news in his personal life, novelist Mikel Jollett turned to writing songs instead of prose for relief. Within months, The Airborne Toxic Event was born. The L.A. band shakes up standard rock with a viola and trumpet in this session from WXPN.

Pulp fiction novels are usually filled with hard-boiled men, dangerous dames and a surprise around ever dog-eared corner. It was a genre dominated by male authors, but the Feminist Press has saved from obscurity some of the best pulp fiction written by women. View a photo gallery of classic cover art, and hear more examples of feminist purple prose.

Author Junot Diaz won a Pulitzer Prize this year for his first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Set in both the United States and the Dominican Republic, the novel explores the complexities of living in two cultures at once, with prose that frequently mixes Spanish and English in the same sentence.

Even as sombr and Rosalía hit new career highs, there's a major churn taking place just below the top 10, as a wave of Christmas songs begin their ascent.

After traveling nearly 300 million miles, NASA's rover is about to land on the Red Planet. It's aiming for a crater that was home to a lake 3.5 billion years ago.

Steve Inskeep talks to Dr. Michelle Ogle of the Warren-Vance Community Health Center in Henderson, N.C., about why she chose to resign from the advisory council. Five others also left the panel.

The Tennessee governor's race tab has topped $51 million before the Aug. 2 primary.Adding activity from July 1 to 23, four Republicans have spent $45.7…