Salman Ahmad grew up in both Pakistan and the United States. Trained as an M.D., Ahmad has traded in his stethoscope for a guitar and performs with his group, Junoon...
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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There’s another place where food and death go together, but it’s a place we don’t like to talk about: the last meal. Brian Price has prepared the last meals for some 200 inmates on Death Row in Texas prisons.
Award-winning novelist Jane Hamilton's new novel has a setting that's close to home. "The Excellent Lombards" is a story of generational tension set on a family apple farm. Steve Paulson talks about writing, farming and apples with Jane while walking through her own family orchard.
Scott Topper reads from the meditation journal he kept after learning a simple meditation from Buddhist monk George Churinoff.
British actor Simon Callow is writing Orson Welles' biography. Volume 2 is called "Hello Americans."
Steve Paulson profiles savage literary critic Dale Peck. A collection of Peck’s reviews is called “Hatchet Jobs.”
Louisa May Alcott was no "little woman". Biographer Harriet Reisen uncovers the fierce feminist behind "Little Women".
Tom Bollestorff is an anthropologist at UC Irvine and author of "Coming of Age in Second Life."
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