Jayne Anne Phillips is the author of several novels and two collections of widely anthologized short stories...
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Novelist Jane Hamilton talks with Steve Paulson about the role of nostalgia in literary fiction.
The question isn't "seen any good movies lately?" but instead "experienced any good paratexts lately?"
Joe Davis, Adam Zaretsky and Oron Catts make bioart - art objects that include living tissue or organisms. They tell Steve Paulson about their work.
If you think the American middle class has it bad, consider life in debt-ridden Italy or Greece. Best-selling financial writer Michael Lewis portrays the downfall of several European countries with his usual verve, in Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World.
Jill Sprecher is an optimist while her sister Karen is a pessimist. Or is it the other way around? Jill directed “Thirteen Conversations About One Thing” while Karen wrote the screenplay.
Cartoonist Jules Feiffer started on his path to fame in the 1950s with a cartoon strip for "The Village Voice" that eventually won him a Pulitzer Prize.
Robert Laughlin says that the internet is full of information, but it may not be anything you want.
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