Joshua Ferris talks about his novel, "To Rise Again at a Decent Hour," which made the longlist for The Man Booker Prize.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Mandaza Kandemwa is widely recognized in Southern Africa as a traditional healer.
Michael Muhammad Knight wrote a novel called "The Taqwacores." He made up the word: taqwa is Arabic for piety and core means hardcore.
Pattie Boyd was a young model in London when she met and married George Harrison. Eric Clapton courted her while she was still married to Harrison, and both of them wrote songs for her.
Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun have been photographing life in the Louisiana State Penitentiary for 30 years. They talk about the conditions in the prison - nicknamed Angola, for the plantation that was formerly on the site - and how they've changed over time. When they see the inmates working in the fields, they say, it looks a lot like slavery.
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky are the celebrated husband and wife team who've translated many of the great Russian writers. They've just come out with a new version of Tolstoy's "War and Peace."
Imagine living an entire year without money. And I mean no money. No cash. No credit cards. Nothing. Where do you live? What do you eat? How do you wash? What do you do?
Mira Nair is an Oscar nominated, India- born film-maker who divides her time between America and the sub-continent.
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