Andre De Shields talks to Jim Fleming about his mission to win new roles for black actors, roles that are traditionally reserved for white actors.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Alan Doyle is the lead singer of the band Great Big Sea. He stopped by our studios to talk about the ins and outs of his first solo album, "Boy on Bridge."
Humans become walking advertisements in Carter Lee's tale of sponsorship run amok.
Anne Rice, queen of the vampire novel, talks about her obsession with good and evil and the search for meaning. She says the Eucharist looms behind behind her vampire stories.
Celebrated poet, playwright and activist Amiri Baraka wrote the foreword to the book, "This Planet Is Doomed: The Science Fiction Poetry of Sun Ra." He spoke to Steve Paulson about Sun Ra's music and poetry.
Adam Mansbach knows the world of graffit writers. He's even tried tagging himself, but mostly, settles for writing about it in his novel "Rage is Back."
Actress Angela Ianonne tells Anne Strainchamps about her identification with Maria Callas and explains what she thinks made Callas such a great artist.
Alexandra Fuller was the child of white farmers in the former Rhodesia. Her memoir is called “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood.”
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