Michael Chabon defends the position that genre fiction is just as worthy of respect as any other fiction.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Welcome to a new regular feature: PlayList: Artists' Soundtracks. Today, celebrated Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard shares the music he listened to while writing "My Struggle" -- Midlake's LP, "The Courage of Others."
Robert Marshall says that the late Carlos Castaneda was a literary trickster who invented most of the teachings of Don Juan which made him famous in the sixties.
Novelist Jonathan Lethem's new book is called "You Don't Love Me Yet." It's the story of an alternative rock band in Los Angeles trying to find success and themselves.
P.D. James created Adam Dalgleish, a detective almost as beloved as Holmes. Steve Paulson spoke with her on the occasion of the publication of her memoir, "Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography."
Jeff Gordinier tells Steve Paulson why his generation has the perfect qualities to improve the world they'll inherit from the Baby Boomers.
Julie Norem is the author of “The Power of Negative Thinking.” She tells Jim Fleming about her strategy of “defensive pessimism,” and explains the good it can do.
Lauret Savoy believes too many nature writers focus on pristine wilderness and neglect the gritty reality of the places where people actually live - in cities, for instance, maybe even near toxic waste sites - which forces us to grapple with questions about race and poverty.
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