Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the godfathers of Latin American fiction. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010. He also once ran for president of his native country, Peru. Politics and literature are the driving forces in his life.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Chang's new novel follows the lives of students and one particular professor in a creative writing program in the Midwest.
Travel writer Jan Morris tells Steve Paulson that she identifies with the city of Trieste which is a jumble of influences - East and West, past and present.
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and songwriter who was invited by Woody Guthrie's daughter to visit her famous father's archives and use some of his unpublished material.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."
Mitchell Joaquim and the Terreform 1 team are looking for new, organic ways of building homes… and cities. He says part of the answer might be tree houses and… meat houses. Yes, you heard that right, MEAT houses.
Lera Auerbach's obsession with time has impacted her life in music. We hear examples of her literary and musical achievements.
Cissy Chandler was 18 years older than her husband, which he may or may not have ever known.
Paul Beatty recommends a novel by German-Jewish Holocaust survivor Edgar Hilsenrath.
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