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” ...
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jerry Aronson spent a dozen years filming the great Beat poet Allen Ginsberg and produced a documentary called "The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg."
Lorraine Johnson-Coleman tells Anne Strainchamps that cornbread is the ultimate Southern food and that Southerners can always recognize their loved ones’ fried chicken.
Rob Sheffield talks with Anne Strainchamps about his relationship with his late wife and how they communicated by exchanging mix tapes of their favorite music.
Judith Farr tells Jim Fleming that Emily Dickinson had several gardens and a conservatory and wrote about flowers in her poems and in her letters.
Len Fisher believes in practical physics. His book, "How to Dunk a Doughnut" gives scientific explanations for the minutiae of everyday life.
Patricia Person confesses she is a procrastinator in this audio essay.
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.
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