Writer and writing coach Natalie Goldberg tells Anne Strainchamps how two of the most important men in her life - her father and her Zen master – failed her.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Novelist Jane Hamilton remembers her old piano teacher and their battles over practicing.
Mo Yan is a Chinese novelist whom many critics think will be a future Nobel Prize winner. His new novel is called “Big Breasts & Wide Hips.”
Mary Karr's latest memoir is called "Lit" and chronicles her alcoholism and alcoholic family.
Richard Ranft says the oceans are teeming with noises and plays Jim Fleming a few examples from snapping shrimp to amorous haddock and walruses.
Julia Glass tells Steve Paulson that writing the book was her way of dealing with unendurable emotional trauma.
Novelist Nicholson Baker tells Anne Strainchamps that e-readers have some advantages over the printed book, but the Kindle isn't his favorite.
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