Novelist Mark Salzman talks about his experience teaching creative writing at Central Juvenile Hall in Los Angeles, a detention center for L.A.’s most serious young offenders.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Paula Kamen has had the same headache for 14 years. Her book is “All in My Head: An Epic Quest to Cure an Unrelenting, Totally Unreasonable, and Only Slightly Enlightening Headache.”
Justine Picardie is a writer for British Vogue and a former editor at London’s Observer. She talks about her efforts to contact her sister Ruth’s spirit in the year after Ruth’s death from breast cancer.
Evolutionary biologist and outspoken atheist Richard Dawkins attempts to redefine "magic" as rational and non-supernatural.
Jim Fleming reads excerpts from Murakami's book "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running."
Novelist Jane Hamilton remembers her old piano teacher and their battles over practicing.
Norwegian jazz musician Kristin Asbjorsen has turned Bukowski’s poetry into music for a film version of his novel “Factotum.”
Jon Hein uses the term “jump-the-shark” to describe the precise moment when things begin to go bad.
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