Jasper Fforde talks with Steve Paulson about the adventures of his fictional character Thursday Next, a literary detective.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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About a year ago, independent producer Karen Michel moved from Brooklyn to Pleasant Valley, New York, near the Hudson River. She prepared this piece as a way of getting to know her new neighbors
Mimi Sheraton is the author of “The Bialy Eaters: The Story of a Bread and a Lost World.” She explains what she found when she traveled to Bialystock.
Gram Rabbit is a rock band whose members live in the Joshua Tree Desert. Their CD is called "Music to Start a Cult to."
Judith Claire MItchell's first novel “The Last Day of the War” is set just after World War I, when Europe's peace brokers decided to ignore the Armenian massacres. She talks about the painful legacy of that decision, 100 years later.
Mukoma Wa Ngugi is a poet and English professor who writes crime novels set in his native Kenya. He says the crime genre lets him write truthfully about race, class and violence in cities like Nairobi.
Julia Alvarez talks about her novel for young adults, and how it mirrors her own experience reconciling a native Dominican background with the culture of her adopted home: a small town in rural Vermont.
For years, Paul Ewald's been trying to convince people that cancer is caused by germs, not genes.
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