Michael Kimmelman talks with Steve Paulson about making your life a work of art.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jim Ridge performs a one man show called "Dickens in America," which he wrote with his friend Jim DeVita.
Natsuo Kirino is one of Japan's best known writers. We sample an excerpt from her psychological thriller, Real World.
Marjane Satrapi talks about the intimate lives of women in Iran and the conflicts created around the issue of sexuality by patriarchy and fundamentalist Islam.
Writer Mike Magnuson used to like being a lummox. Then he took up bicycling, and changed his life.
Jon Katz’ latest book is “The New Work of Dogs.” Katz says that Americans are forgetting their pets’ true natures and shouldn’t expect them to be children with fur.
Jim Fleming hosts an event at the Wisconsin Book Festival featuring poets Linton Kwesi Johnson and former Poet Laureate Ted Kooser. Both poets read work eulogizing their fathers.
Richard Goldstein, executive editor of the Village Voice, is appalled by the rampant chauvinism of popular culture.
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