Novelist Jane Hamilton talks with Steve Paulson about the role of nostalgia in literary fiction.
Novelist Jane Hamilton talks with Steve Paulson about the role of nostalgia in literary fiction.
Karen Armstrong talks with Anne Strainchamps about her tangled path back to God after leaving the convent.
If you think the American middle class has it bad, consider life in debt-ridden Italy or Greece. Best-selling financial writer Michael Lewis portrays the downfall of several European countries with his usual verve, in Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World.
Jonatha Brooke is a singer and songwriter who was invited by Woody Guthrie's daughter to visit her famous father's archives and use some of his unpublished material. The result is an album called "The Works."
Acclaimed novelist Martin Amis talks about growing up as the son of another famous novelist — Kingsley Amis.
Millard Kaufman has a long string of successes, including two Oscar nominations as a screen writer. He tells Jim Fleming why he decided to take on a new kind of writing.
Jeannette Walls is a famous gossip columnist in New York on MSNBC, but she's the child of hippies who lived a nomadic life in cars and abandoned buildings always one step ahead of their creditors.