The celebrated Irish novelist Colm Toibin talks about his admiration for the poet Elizabeth Bishop and the kinship he feels for her.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Irish poet Dennis O'Driscoll has eight books of poetry. The latest one is "New and Selected Poems."
Barry Unsworth says that the layers of history are tangible on Crete, and talks about some of the island’s mythic figures.
Eric Idle is a former member of the Monty Python comedy group and is now touring solo across America. When his tour stopped in Madison, he talked about death and comedy with Doug Gordon.
He sounded the alarm about global warming over 20 years ago. Now he has a model of how to survive on our changed planet.
LaNiyah Bailey didn't like being bullied in school. When she was 6 years old she decided to do something about it. She wrote a book.
"New Yorker" staff writer and book critic James Wood recommends Theodor Fontane's 1894 novel, "Effi Briest."
Environmental writer Connie Barlow says that rhinos and elephants and tigers are native to North America and that we should bring back the Cheetah.
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