You wouldn’t think the novel “Lolita” would go over big in an underground women’s book club in Tehran. But literature, like the people who read it, has a way of surprising you. Azar Nafizi is the author of the celebrated memoir “Reading Lolita in Tehran.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Craig Childs is a naturalist and nature writer whose latest book is "The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild." He talks with Steve Paulson about some of his life-threatening encounters with wild creatures and why he's not especially worried in the wild.
Clyde Prestowitz tells Jim Fleming that India has an educated, skilled work force and can do business in English, so it's cashing in thanks to an internet-based economy.
No matter what genre you’re writing for, adding a cello can increase the melancholy.
Cheri Register is the author of “Packinghouse Daughter: A Memoir.” She talks about her visit with her sixth grade class to the meat-packing plant where her father worked.
Philosopher David Benatar argues that its time we paid more attention to gender discrimination against men. He's the author of "The Second Sexism."
With digital data streaming online, how do you make sense of it all? Data journalist David McCandless says, make it beautiful.
Want to see some of McCandless's visualizations? Take a look!
Deborah Scranton, director of "The War Tapes," tells Jim Fleming that she got volunteers from the New Hampshire National Guard to record their experiences in combat in Iraq for one year.
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