Michael Cunningham won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel “The Hours,” which re-imagined the life and death of Virginia Woolf. His new novel is called “Specimen Days” and involves Walt Whitman.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Historian Jill Lepore talks with Jim Fleming about Noah Webster and his dictionary. She says Webster thought Americans should have their own language and he celebrated American words.
Inspired by stories of police brutality and the Rodney King beating, civil rights attorney Connie Rice says she declared "war" on the LAPD in the 1990s. These days, she trains and supervises 50 officers in one of Los Angeles' toughest communities.
Michael Streissguth met Johnny Cash and talks with Jim Fleming about the man and his music and what prompted him to compile his book.
M.C. Beaton writes mysteries under a variety of pen names. Matthew Prichard is Agatha Christie's grandson.
Journalist John Carlin talks with Steve Paulson about the 1995 rugby tournament that changed South Africa's history.
Moshin Hamid shares many characteristics with the central character of his novel, "The Reluctant Fundamentalist."
Randall Miller and Jody Savin wrote, directed and are distributing the 2008 Sundance Festival film, "Bottle Shock."
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