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“This is an extraordinary gift of a book, beautiful and devastating—a work of outstanding literary reportage. Read it! It’s the best you will find in many many years.”
—ADRIAN NICOLE LEBLANC, author of Random Family
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Rebecca Skloot on The Colbert Report

“Skloot There it is!” Rebecca talked with Stephen Colbert about The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, irony insurance, and little-known Centipede Cells this week on [...]

Saturday, September 19th, 2009

International Talk Like a Pirate Day

It’s that time again: Today , September 19th, is International Talk Like a Pirate Day, Japanese Respect for the Aged day … and my birthday. [...]

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

Just in Time for Swine Flu season: Designer Respirator Masks!

What could possibly go better with an over-hyped pandemic threat than fashion accessories? The end of the world is near, but at least now we won’t look silly wearing our N95 respirator masks.

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Doctors took her cells without asking. Those cells never died. They launched a medical revolution and a multimillion-dollar industry. More than twenty years later, her children found out. Their lives would never be the same.

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