Abraham Verghese is a medical doctor and a gifted writer. He teaches at the Stanford Medical School and his latest book is "Cutting for Stone."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Modern music has used other forms to develop including rock and film music.
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.
We hear an excerpt from David Isay’s documentary about the traditional gospel quartets of Jefferson County, Alabama.
Ann Vanderhoof and her husband ditched their lives in Toronto to sail South. The journey changed their lives.
In 2011, as Hurricane Irene made landfall in New York City, poet Edward Hirsch learned that his 22-year old son Gabriel had died from a bad drug reaction and subsequent seizure. Later, Hirsch composed “Gabriel,” a book-length elegy poem about his relationship with his son, and his loss.
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.
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