August is Ghost Month in Taiwan—a time to commemorate the dead: burn incense, visit shrines, honor ancestors, and avoid large purchases. It's also the setting for Ed Lin's newest mystery. Lin is a 3-time winner of the Asian-American Literary Award.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Journalist Michael Wolfe tells Jim Fleming why Islam - Wolfe’s chosen religion - is entirely compatible with American values.
Novelist and poet Lavinia Greenlaw has written a memoir called "The Importance of Music to Girls." She talks with Anne Strainchamps about how music helped her as she grew up, and she reads from her book.
Rick Miller wrote a one man show that he now performs worldwide. It’s called “MacHomer” and is a fusion of “MacBeth” and “The Simpsons” with Miller doing all the voices.
Novelist Jim Crace believe current state of the world makes it all too easy to imagine a grim future.
Charles Yu on quantum parenting, time travel and other science fictional paradoxes. Yu is the author of the acclaimed novel "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe."
Matthew Johnson founded Far Possum Records to preserve the Delta and Hill Country blues he loves. Now he produces recordings which feature hip-hop and techno style re-mixes of his classic recordings.
Sometimes beginning again means leaving an old life behind.
For Michelle Kennedy and her three children, that led to living in their car.
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