Edward Hirsch tells Anne Strainchamps that the best artists have “duende” - a kind of creative imp that puts them in touch with human emotional experience.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Hanan Al-Shaykh bookmarks "Season of Migration to the North" by Tayeb Salih.
Brian Price tells Anne Strainchamps how he came to prepare the last meals for some 200 inmates on Death Row in Texas prisons.
Eric Nuzum writes a ghost story in the form of a memoir about growing up in a house he believed to be haunted by the ghost of a little girl in a blue dress. She stalked him.
David Wyatt has written a 9-11 memoir called “And the War Came.” He reads selections and talks with Anne Strainchamps about the effects of 9-ll on his family.
Keli Carender is a Tea Party activist – in fact, she was the very first Tea Party activist.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon tells Jim Fleming that his recent books are part of a sort of Chinese box set of four inter-related novels involving the same characters and his native city of Barcelona.
Charles Taylor was convicted of mass murder, rape, and sexual slavery, among other crimes this week by the ICC. One of his top warlords, infamous for using child soldiers, is seeking redemption. Listen to this NEW and UNCUT interview about General Butt Naked.
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