Jon Scieskza tells Anne Strainchamps that boys like to read funny stuff, not the books their female teachers loved as girls.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Lorraine Johnson-Coleman tells Anne Strainchamps that cornbread is the ultimate Southern food and that Southerners can always recognize their loved ones’ fried chicken.
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.
Singer/songwriter Robert Ellis Orrall talks about his fictional indie rock band, Monkey Bowl.
Jason Pfaff wants to eat in every single Denny’s. He’s made it to a few hundred so far.
Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the godfathers of Latin American writing. His novel “The Feast of the Goat” deals with the Dominican Republic under the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo.
Marsha Mehran was born in Tehran but grew up in Argentina and is now married to an Irishman.
Len Fisher believes in practical physics. His book, "How to Dunk a Doughnut" gives scientific explanations for the minutiae of everyday life.
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