Jay Rubin is the author of “Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words.” He talks about why he first read Murakami, and talks about some of his stories, especially one called “The Elephant Vanishes.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball tell Steve Paulson what makes a lyric work and that many of the great songs came from Broadway and Hollywood musicals.
Luis Alberto Urrea tells Jim Fleming about the business of smuggling illegal aliens across the Arizona desert and the tremendous mortality rate of this dangerous passage.
Best-selling author Jane Hamilton has the kind of success most novelists dream of. In her novel “Disobedience,” a teenage son discovers that his mom is cheating on his dad.
Jonathan Goldman talks about using sound as a therapeutic tool and demonstrates several of the so-called primal sounds in nature, using his own voice.
What's it like to win a MacArthur "genius" award? Fiction writer Karen Rusell tells Anne Strainchamps about the day she heard the news, and talks about her special blend of fantasy and realism in her short stories.
Leslie Marmon Silko writes and paints to help understanding of her native Laguna Pueblo tribe.
Jessica Stern is one of the world's foremost experts on terrorism. In her book "Denial: A Memoir of Terror," Stern recounts her own brutal rape at age fifteen.
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