David Schmader thinks "Showgirls" is the most brilliant bad movie ever made. He did a commentary for the new DVD edition and tells Steve Paulson why it's so hilarious.
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Frank Rich tells Jim Fleming that the Broadway musicals of his childhood were all about dysfunctional families and helped him cope with his own difficult family situation.
In her new memoir, "Ongoingness," Sarah Manguso talks about how keeping a diary—so often considered a virture—for her became a vice. But her obsessive diary keeping changed with the birth of her first child.
Barry Unsworth says that the layers of history are tangible on Crete, and talks about some of the island’s mythic figures.
The asexual movement calls into question everything you thought you knew about love and romance. We talk with David Jay, founder of AVEN, the Asexuality Visibility and Education Network.
Irish poet Dennis O'Driscoll has eight books of poetry. The latest one is "New and Selected Poems."
He sounded the alarm about global warming over 20 years ago. Now he has a model of how to survive on our changed planet.
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