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The first stories in "Thousand and One Nights" were written down in the ninth century. They’ve been added to over the years. In some ways, it’s not so much a book as a living river of stories. Some of the most recent additions come from the celebrated novelist Salman Rushdie.

You can also hear many more interviews with Rushdie.

 

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Athlete and fashion model Aimee Mullins, owner of more than a dozen pairs of the most fabulous prosthetic legs you can imagine.  Her superpowers.

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In collaboration with David Lynch, Mark Frost co-created one of the most enduring fictional universes of all time — Twin Peaks. Now Frost has written an innovative novel that takes a deep dive into the history of the surreal logging town.

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Olivia Laing says John Cheever's "The Swimmer" is one of the finest short stories every written. 

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Novelist T. Coraghessan Boyle talks with Jim Fleming about his latest.  “Drop City” is set in a California commune in the 1970s, and concerns the activities at one of America’s many private little Utopias.

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Simon Montefiore is the author of “Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar.”  He says Stalin was more complex than we thought, but still a monster.

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Journalist and editor Tom Shroder tells Jim Fleming about the remarkable cases he's investigated of children who insist they belong to a family other than the one they were born into.

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Stephen Marche is the author of "How Shakespeare Changed Everything." He tells Anne Strainchamps why he thinks Shakespeare is the most important figure in history.

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