Dominican-born writer Junot Diaz -- the MacArthur genius, Pulitzer Prize-winning author has written some of some of the most brilliant contemporary fiction about the immigrant experience.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Steve Paulson talks with a contemporary master of metafiction - writer Robert Coover. Coover's latest novel is "A Child Again."
Hip Hop often concerns itself with everyday life, but these days there is at least one young artist who believes hip hop can change the face of devotional music.
Graphic war photos can be very powerful, but they often elicit complicated and unforeseen reactions among viewers.
Wisconsin Public Television producer Patty Loew talks with Anne Strainchamps about her TV documentary "Way of the Warrior".
Richard Poplak tells Anne Strainchamps about the ill-fated attempt to adapt The Simpsons for the Arab world.
Michael Novacek is a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History. Novacek talks with Steve Paulson about some of his most famous discoveries.
The stereotype of photojournalists is that they’re adrenaline junkies. Risk takers. But they're often surprisingly humble about their work -- maybe because their job is to erase themselves, to become the lens that lets us see the world. Here photojournalist Brendan Bannon talks about finding beauty in the midst of suffering and about a photo he took at the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya.
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