Mary Ann Caws is an internationally respected scholar of surrealism. She has translated many of the movements major texts and is the editor of “Surrealism (Themes and Movements).”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Julia Alvarez tells Anne Strainchamps that she raises coffee on a small farm in the Dominican Republic and explains how it influences her writing.
Writer and cartoonist Lynda Barry is an outspoken left-wing intellectual with an urban sensibility who now lives off the grid in rural Wisconsin.
Intensive polling over several years in both countries shows that Americans and Canadians are developing differences in their social, political and moral attitudes.
Peter Doyle is the author of "Echo and Reverb: Fabricating Space in Popular Music Recording, 1900-1960."
Laura Miller tells Anne Strainchamps why she thinks Stephanie Meyers' "Twilight" books are such a phenomenal success with young women, even though the lead female character is so lacking in gifts or accomplishments.
Marcella Hazan is a chef and teacher of cooking. She thinks Americans totally misunderstand Italian food.
Ilana Harlow talks with Anne Strainchamps about the remarkable creativity people show when it comes to memorializing their dead.
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