Jonathan Lethem bookmarks "Kafka Was the Rage" by Anatole Broyard.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
Audio
Fleda Brown, poet laureate of Delaware reads some of her poems and talks with Steve Paulson.
Children’s book author Avi talks with Anne Strainchamps about his Breakfast Serials project which publishes stories for children in newspapers.
David Mamet talks with Steve Paulson and says the secret to writing a successful screenplay is to focus on what happens next. That's all the audience cares about.
Craig Venter, who's come as close as anyone has to creating life in a test tube, tells Steve Paulson what drives him.
In this UNCUT interview, novelist Deborah Harkness talks about studying the history of magic, and then transforming history into fiction.
Literary theorist Terry Eagleton's Dangerous Idea? The humanities are dying.
Christopher Buckley talks with Steve Paulson about his novel "Boomsday," which posits a piece of runaway legislation providing tax incentives for Boomers who choose to commit suicide...sort of an updated "Modest Proposal."
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