Nicholas Christopher collected myths and legends for years to write his novel, "The Bestiary."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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The question isn't "seen any good movies lately?" but instead "experienced any good paratexts lately?"
Jayne Anne Phillips is the author of several novels and two collections of widely anthologized short stories...
Lisa Tucker tells Anne Strainchamps that she thinks the songs that get stuck in our brains reveal a lot about us.
A 93 year old bee-keeping Sherlock Holmes gets embroiled with the son of a former client in Japan, and forges a relationship with his new housekeeper's son.
Novelist Jane Hamilton talks with Steve Paulson about the role of nostalgia in literary fiction.
Mark Dowie tells Steve Paulson about a recent confrontation between a Masai leader and several thousand environmentalists gathered for a conference.
Cartoonist Jules Feiffer started on his path to fame in the 1950s with a cartoon strip for "The Village Voice" that eventually won him a Pulitzer Prize.
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