Novelist Joanna Trollope reads from "Second Honeymoon" and talks about why the empty nest syndrome is particularly difficult for women.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Indian film-maker Mira Nair talks with Jim Fleming about being a woman director, and combining stories from East and West.
Jessica Helfand tells Jim Fleming that people constructed unique personal narratives out of whatever materials were at hand, long before there was a scrapbooking business to help them.
Chicago May was a 19th century Irish immigrant who became a con-woman and crook instead of a maid or factory worker.
Australian novelist Peter Carey talks with Steve Paulson about "My Life as a Fake," and the peculiar career of the great Australian poet who never existed.
Are we ever good enough, or are we doomed to self-optimization for our entire lives?
Paul Collins describes his experience as an antiquarian bookseller in the Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye in his book “Sixpence House.”
Laura Blumenfeld wrote a book called “Revenge: A Story of Hope.” It recounts how she went to Jerusalem and sought out the family of the Palestinian man who shot her tourist father.
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