A few brief dramatized snippets from Olivia Judson and her book “Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Reza Aslan seems to admire what Obama said in his recent Cairo speech but says Muslims will wait to see if the actions of the United States reflect its leader's words.
Cultural Critic Richard Todd looked at modern life and saw others telling what is and isn't real.
Jane Juska tells Anne Strainchamps why, at the age of 66, she took out an ad in the NY Review of Books looking for as many sexual partners as possible.
Lauren Myracle has written three books for young adults, including “ttyl.” The book is named for an abbreviation used in Instant Messaging to mean “talk to you later.”
Michael Cunningham won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel “The Hours,” which re-imagined the life and death of Virginia Woolf. His new novel is called “Specimen Days” and involves Walt Whitman.
Michael Streissguth met Johnny Cash and talks with Jim Fleming about the man and his music and what prompted him to compile his book.
Anne Carson doesn't call her work poetry. She says the best description is poesis, Greek for "making." A classics scholar, Carson is a translator, essayist and prolific forger of new literary forms.
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