Natsuo Kirino is one of Japan's best known writers. We sample an excerpt from her psychological thriller, Real World.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Mo Yan is a Chinese novelist whom many critics think will be a future Nobel Prize winner. His new novel is called “Big Breasts & Wide Hips.”
Mary Karr's latest memoir is called "Lit" and chronicles her alcoholism and alcoholic family.
Christian Rudder, the founder of OKCupid, thinks cupid’s arrow may just be an algorithm.
Filmmaker Philip Groning talks with Anne Strainchamps about the six months of silence he filmed with the Carthusian monks of the Grand Chartreuse in the French Alps.
Robbie Fulks talks to Doug Gordon about his latest album, "Georgia Hard," and his former identity as a staff songwriter for a Nashville music publisher.
Joe Kelly runs a national organization called Dads and Daughters. He gives Steve Paulson some advice for fathers whose daughters are hitting puberty.
Julia Glass tells Steve Paulson that writing the book was her way of dealing with unendurable emotional trauma.
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