Orville Schell tells Jim Fleming that Westerners have always romanticized Tibet. He’s observed it for years and concedes that even under Chinese domination, Tibet remains a unique and entrancing place.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jill Fredston and her husband spend months every year rowing in the Arctic. And she tells a whale of a fish story!
Julia Glass tells Steve Paulson that writing the book was her way of dealing with unendurable emotional trauma.
In this EXTENDED interview, Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard talks about his autobiographical novel, “My Struggle,” as well as his unorthodox approach to writing.
Lynn Garrett tells Steve Paulson that bookstores are selling out of books on Islam and terrorism, and that there’s strong interest in books that tackle fundamental moral questions.
Paul Feig is the creator of the short-lived TV show “Freaks and Geeks”. He tells Anne Strainchamps he and the other writers based the show on incidents from their own lives.
Joelle Biele discusses the correspondences between poet Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker.
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