Novelist Amy Tan tells Anne Strainchamps about the murder that shaped her life as a writer and the role that fate has played in her family's history.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Ann Vanderhoof and her husband ditched their lives in Toronto to sail South. The journey changed their lives.
Egyptian novelist Ahdaf Soueif tells Steve Paulson about the minimal lasting impact of the British occupation of her country, and why she lives and writes in Britain.
“Alif the Unseen” is steeped in an old tradition. It’s a book of magic about a book of magic.
Mary Oliver has said, "The poem is meant to be given away, best of all by the spoken presentation of it; then the work is complete." To complete the second hour of the Death series, here's her reading of "When Death Comes," taken from At Blackwater Pond: Mary Oliver Reads Mary Oliver and used with permission from Beacon Press, 2006.
Alistair McGrath teaches Historical Theology at Oxford University and he’s the author of “In the Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible, and How It Changed a Nation, a Language and a Culture.”
Anne DIck, Philip K. Dick's third wife, talks about their relationship.
Andreas Viestad is Norwegian and the host of the PBS series “New Scandinavian Cooking.” He talks about his adventures cooking in the field across Norway.
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