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Novelist Ann Patchett on how independent bookstores build community
If you shop at the East Nashville Farmers’ Market you can buy fruits and vegetables; but you can also meet a famous author with a stop by the traveling bookmobile. Ann Patchett is a co-owner of the Parnassus Books, founded…
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The ‘inner life’ of literary giant Norman Mailer
J. Michael Lennon shares the person behind the image in "Norman Mailer: A Double Life."…
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Danticat Reads an Excerpt from ‘Claire of the Sea Light’
Edwidge Danticat Reads an Excerpt from ‘Claire of the Sea Light’…
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Edwidge Danticat Reaches Back and Forward in Her New Novel
Edwidge Danticat Reaches Back -- and Forward -- in Her New Novel Set in Haiti…
Frederick Douglass traveling through Ireland in 1845 to stir up support for his abolitionist cause. The first non-stop flight across the Atlantic in 1919. Sen. George Mitchell in 1998 trying to forge a peace treaty in Northern Ireland. Those actual…
Carlos Fuentes was a prolific writer -- penning novels, essays, newspaper articles, even an opera. Recognized as one of Latin America's greatest literary figures, Fuentes brought stories from Mexico to the world stage. He died Tuesday at age 83. Ray…
Egyptian novelist and dentist Alaa al Aswany speaks with Margret Warner about the surprising changes in political behavior of his countrymen amid the revolution earlier this year, and how the new Egypt is taking shape.
Jeffrey Brown talks to Tom Piazza, author of "Devil Sent the Rain."…
"Bright's Passage," the debut novel by singer-songwriter Josh Ritter, details a young man's return home from World War I. Jeffrey Brown and the musician-turned-novelist discuss his first work of fiction.
