Poet Gillian Ferguson lives in Edinburgh. Her volume “Baby: Poems on Pregnancy, Birth and Babies” explores her experience of being pregnant and giving birth.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Hannah Palin lives in Seattle and works as a film archivist. Her mother is retired and lives in Washington, D.C.
Gay Talese writes literary journalism. He's a master of in-depth profiles, telling his story through detailed scenes.
Greg Kot, rock critic for the Chicago Tribune and a regular contributor to Rolling Stone, talks about Tom Waits’ album “Nighthawks at the Diner.”
George Dyson grew up in the backyard of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where some of the most brilliant engineers and mathematicians in the world (including his parents) were building one of the first computers. His new book, "Turing's Cathedral", is the story of their quest to build a working computer.
Kirk Lynn's debut novel "Rules for Werewolves" is the story of a group of young, homeless, angry kids running from their families and roaming the suburbs of Los Angeles like a pack of wolves. He says the story was partially inspired by his own experience breaking into homes during his wild teenage years.
Before he was a crooner, BIng Crosby was totally hip and outsold Sinatra. But he couldn't make the jump to rock and roll.
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