Deborah Treisman is fiction editor of The New Yorker magazine. George Saunders is one of her star writers. Treisman and Saunders join Steve Paulson to talk about writing and publishing short stories.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Essayist Beverly Lapp explains what "The Star Spangled Banner" means to her as a Mennonite.
Pop culture critic Camille Paglia talks with Anne Strainchamps about our obsession with makeovers and the human impulse to mythologize public figures.
Cecil Brown has researched the true story that gave rise to the Stagolee myth, and explains what the song has meant to various groups, especially within the African-American community.
Christopher Paul Curtis tells Judith Strasser why he writes historical fiction, and how he moved from hanging doors on a factory floor to becoming a writer.
Chris Hardman runs the Antenna Theater in San Francisco. He created a piece where he gave audience members headphones and told them to go for a walk on the beach.
Colson Whitehead talks to Steve Paulson about his take on the post-apocalyptic zombie novel, "Zone One."
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