Ken Nordine recites his word poem "yellow".
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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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.
Rachel Naomi Remen tells Steve Paulson it’s important to treat the whole person, not just the disease and says she has no idea what happens at the end of life.
Cissy Chandler was 18 years older than her husband, which he may or may not have ever known.
Robert Ferris Thompson muses about the movements of the tango and all the passions they express.
Acclaimed novelist Martin Amis talks about growing up as the son of another famous novelist — Kingsley Amis.
For millennia the Hazara people have been telling folk tales. Najaf Mazari and Robert Hillman have collected them in a book called “The Honey Thief.”
Novelist Jane Hamilton talks with Steve Paulson about the role of nostalgia in literary fiction.
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