Part memoir, part comic and part activity book, "What It is" reflects Lynda Barry's belief that everyone is an artist and has stories to tell.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Pir Zubair Shah is a Pakistani journalist who risked his life reporting for the New York Times from his homeland -- Waziristan, in the heart of Taliban-controlled Pashtun area. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his work, but had to leave his country.
Kate Davis talks with Anne Strainchamps about her new documentary, called “Jockey,” concerning the underbelly of horse racing.
Khaled Hosseini's novel “The Kite Runner” put Afghan fiction on the map. Hosseini's new book is “And the Mountains Echoed.”
Nathan Rabin, head writer for "The Onion's" entertainment section, "A.V. Club.", explains the pivotal role popular culture has played throughout his life.
Ginger Strand, the author of The Brothers Vonnegut, has a dangerous idea. She thinks liberals need to go out and buy a gun!
Vladimir Nabokov is not only a great literary figure. He was a world-class lepidopterist who named ten new species. Pyle tells Judith Strasser about Nabokov’s work with butterflies.
John Berendt tells Anne Strainchamps that Venice still feels like a stage set, and that Venetians still carry on in dramatic, even operatic ways.
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