Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie won the National Book Critics Circle award for her new novel, "Americanah." We went back to our archives and found this memorable interview with Adichie from 2010, when Steve Paulson spoke to her about her earlier novel "The Thing Around Your Neck."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
Audio
Maureen Adams tells Jim Fleming about the dogs who were the companions and inspiration of some of our greatest women writers.
Jeremy Spear made a documentary film called “Fastpitch” about the world of professional fastpitch softball.
Journalist Ken Wiwa tells Steve Paulson about his father's protest against the influence of oil money in Nigeria, and what it was like to grow up in his dominating presence.
Some countries are still struggling for international recognition. Photographer Narayan Mahon talks about his “Lands in Limbo” project – photographs that show what happens to the citizens of a nation that’s denied UN membership.
In 2005, New York Times journalist Eric Lichtblau wrote a series of articles about the surveillance – without warrants – of some Americans’ international phone calls and e-mails. The Times won a Pulitzer Prize for their reporting. In 2008, Steve asked Lichtblau about covering the NSA’s warrantless wire-tapping program.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day has us thinking about America's Great Migration -- the epic struggle for freedom that saw six million people migrate north from the southern states before the civil rights era. So we're revisiting Steve Paulson's conversation with Isabel Wilkerson re. her book, "The Warmth of Other Suns."
Loren Coleman tells Jim Fleming why he's still looking for the next Lake Monster or Bigfoot or Thunderbird.
Pages
