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Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard discusses his six-volume autobiographical novel, "My Struggle."

You could also listen to an extended interview with Karl Ove Knausgaard.

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Mark Jacobson and his wife took their three children on a 90-day trip around the world. They've written a book called "12,000 Miles in the Nick of Time: A Semi-Dysfunctional Family Circumnavigates the Globe."

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Robert Ellis Orrall is a musician who lives in Nashville, on the same street where Al Gore bought a house.  So he wrote a song about it!

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Marti Leimbach is an autism activist and successful novelist. She talks about her own experiences trying to get help for her autistic son.

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Singer/songwriter Lisa Germano played violin for rock artist John Mellencamp.  Her own album, “Geek the Girl” contains a song, “The Psychopath,” based on her experiences with an obsessed fan.

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As a child, Michael Ondaatje took a long ocean voyage from Sri Lanka to England.  This is the seed of his novel "The Cat's Table."  He talks with Jim Fleming about the fine line between fiction and memoir.

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Joan Didion, who died last week at the age of 87, helped shape a highly personal brand of nonfiction that came to be known as the New Journalism. Her early essay collections "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" (1968) and "The White Album" (1979) influenced generations of writers. Her later memoirs, "The Year of Magical Thinking" and "Blue Nights," chronicled the deaths of her husband and daughter. In 2011 Didion talked with Steve Paulson about illness and growing old in the wake of the death of her daughter, Quintana.

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Meg Graham is the co-author (with Alec Shuldiner) of “Corning and the Craft of Innovation.”  She says that Corning has a long tradition of nurturing innovation and accommodating eccentricity.

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