John McNally is the author of “The Book of Ralph: A Fiction.” McNally tells Steve Paulson about the real life kids who served as the models for his character Ralph, a trouble-maker.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Kate Lebo is The Pie Poet. She runs a pastry academy and writer's studio called The Pie School, She's published poetry about pies and a pie cookbook.
Mary Ann Caws is an internationally respected scholar of surrealism. She has translated many of the movements major texts and is the editor of “Surrealism (Themes and Movements).”
Julia Alvarez tells Anne Strainchamps that she raises coffee on a small farm in the Dominican Republic and explains how it influences her writing.
Can you learn to be more creative? You can if you go to Lynda Barry's workshop on "writing the unthinkable."
You can also listen to the EXTENDED interview, and read the extended transcript.
Michael Pollan tells Judith Strasser where the American front lawn came from, and what it has come to symbolize.
Travel writer Tony Perrotet has spent his career traveling all over the globe, but he skipped the Mediterranean tour, choosing Tierra del Fuego or the Amazon over Rome. But the discovery of an ancient guide book launched him on his most exotic journey yet, in the footsteps of the Ancients.
In Laura Poitras's film "My Country, My Country" she shoots in cinema verite style and based her film on the actions of an Iranian physician and his family around the recent Iranian election.
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