Writer Andre Aciman says a good memoir can capture emotional truth even when certain historical details are fictionalized. He describes the art of the memoir.
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The talk of the New York International Auto Show is the Transition... a car that can fly! Or, more accurately, as the inventor told Jim Fleming... a plane that can drive!
Abraham Verghese is a medical doctor and a gifted writer. He teaches at the Stanford Medical School and his latest book is "Cutting for Stone."
Modern music has used other forms to develop including rock and film music.
Wanna make it in America, a good education gets you a long way, right?. That’s especially true if you’re not a white kid from a high income family. Parents and filmmakers Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson have just released an astounding documentary about their son's journey through an elite New York prep school.
You can also hear our uncut conversation with them.
Andy Behrman describes some of the excesses of his manic state and talks about the course of electric shock therapy that finally got his illness under control.
We hear an excerpt from David Isay’s documentary about the traditional gospel quartets of Jefferson County, Alabama.
In 2011, as Hurricane Irene made landfall in New York City, poet Edward Hirsch learned that his 22-year old son Gabriel had died from a bad drug reaction and subsequent seizure. Later, Hirsch composed “Gabriel,” a book-length elegy poem about his relationship with his son, and his loss.
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