Storyteller Donald Davis spends Thanksgiving on Oracoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina. He tells one of his family’s favorite Thanksgiving tales.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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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.
David Gilmour decided to let his son, Jesse, drop out of school, provided that he agree to watch three movies a week with his father. He talks about this experience.
David Shields talks with Anne Strainchamps about his book, which is a meditation on how our bodies decay and die, and his irrepressible father who is 97 and who doesn't give death the time of day.
Eddie Lenihan is the author of “The Other Crowd,” a book about the tradition of fairies in Ireland. From his home in County Clare, he says that Irish fairies are violent and dangerous and that people believe in them still.
Colson Whitehead talks to Steve Paulson about his take on the post-apocalyptic zombie novel, "Zone One."
Art Spiegelman's new book is “In the Shadow of No Towers” in which he recounts his very personal response to 9-11.
Derick Burleson won the Felix Pollack Prize for his collection of poems about Rwanda, called "Ejo."
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