Lupe Fiasco is a rap star and a devout Muslim. His debut album is called "Food and Liquor" and was nominated for 3 Grammy Awards.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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John Van de Ruit is an actor, writer, and producer who lives in South Africa and has created a phenomenon with his novels "Spud" and its sequel "Spud: The Madness Continues."
Patricia O'Conner tells Jim Fleming that what Americans think of as a British accent is a fairly recent development.
Justine Picardie is a writer for British Vogue and a former editor at London’s Observer. She talks about her efforts to contact her sister Ruth’s spirit in the year after Ruth’s death from breast cancer.
Cognitive researcher Douglas Hofstadter explains how gendered words and phrases — like using "guys" to refer to mixed company — can oftentimes reinforce sexist attitudes.
Josh and Jacob Kornbluth made a film version of Josh’s play “Haiku Tunnel," which chronicles Josh’s experience as a temporary worker.
Jim Fleming reads excerpts from Murakami's book "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running."
Pearl S. Buck’s last novel, “ The Eternal Wonder” was discovered last year in a storage locker in Texas. Anne Strainchamps talked with her son and literary executor, Edgar Walsh, about his mother’s life and legacy and her difficult last years.
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