Meaiti Jo Sheamuis is the host of a traditional Irish music show on RTE, the Irish language radio network. He’s also an evangelist for the Irish language.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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It’s time for you to meet the next wave of African fiction and our guest has compiled their writing together in the book “Africa39” – an anthology of 39 African writers under the age of 39.
Jan Louter is a Dutch film director. The PBS series Independent Lens just aired his piece “A Sad Flower in the Sand” about novelist John Fante. Fante wrote a 1939 novel called “Ask the Dust” ...
Hana was a little girl killed in the Holocaust. Her suitcase came into the possession of a Japanese school teacher some 60 years later.
Paul Auster is a director, screen-writer and novelist. He talks about dealing with moments of doubt while writing fiction.
Novelist Larry Baker followed up “The Flamingo Rising” with a story called “Athens, America.” He marketed it himself, starting in the mid-West, where the book is set, and ended up selling it in grocery stores.
John Cage wrote some of the most controversial music of the 20th Century. Kenneth Silverman explores Cage's life in a groundbreaking biography called "Begin Again."
Dr. Norman Rosenthal and Anne Strainchamps discuss several examples of how our feelings influence our bodies, and what we can do about it.
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