Can you learn to be more creative? You can if you go to Lynda Barry's workshop on "writing the unthinkable." In this EXTENDED interview, she tells Anne Strainchamps how to unleash our hidden muse.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Paul Hoffman is the author of “Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight.” Hoffman tells Jim Fleming that Santos-Dumont’s craft (which he tethered to a light-post outside Maxim’s while he had dinner) was a motorized hot air balloon.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Laura Sessions Stepp tells Jim Fleming that sports are good for kids and that all kids need something to be passionate about.
Kendall Taylor is the author of the most complete account yet of the marriage of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. Taylor tells Steve Paulson that the marriage was volatile from the beginning.
Mary Wells Lawrence thought up some of the most clever and memorable ad campaigns of her generation. Her memoir is “A Big Life in Advertising.”
Novelist Jonathan Carroll talks about his book “White Apples.” It’s the story of a man who finds out he’s already dead, and the afterlife is right here.
Best-selling novelist Jane Hamilton shares some of her favorite endings from modern literature with Steve Paulson.
Randall Miller and Jody Savin wrote, directed and are distributing the 2008 Sundance Festival film, "Bottle Shock."
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