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Wild Woman
Playwright Sarah Ruhl speaks softly and carries a big kick
October 2007 |
By Matthew Gurewitsch
Comedienne of Manners
Novelist ZZ Packer uses humor to point up some disconcerting signposts along America's racial divide
October 2007 |
By Tessa Decarlo
Mighty Mouth
Spoken-word artist Mayda del Valle brings to life "democracy writ large in poetry"
October 2007 |
By Serena Kim
Crossing the Divide
Novelist Daniel Alarcón's writings evoke the gritty, compelling landscape of urban Latin America
October 2007 |
By Marie Arana
Have Roots, Will Travel
Like the four generations of Angelenos who preceded her, the best-selling author likes to get around
October 2007 |
By Lisa See
Teaming up with Thoreau
One hundred fifty years after the publication of Walden, Henry David Thoreau is helping scientists monitor global warming
October 2007 |
By Michelle Nijhuis
Salad Days
Karl Bissinger's 1949 photograph of the author and a few friends at lunch in a Manhattan restaurant garden invokes the optimism of youth
October 2007 |
By Gore Vidal
Remembering Jack Kerouac
A friend of the author of "On the Road," published 50 years ago this month, tells why the novel still matters
September 2007 |
By Joyce Johnson
Hemingway's Cuba, Cuba's Hemingway
His last personal secretary returns to Havana and discovers that the novelist's mythic presence looms larger than ever
August 2007 |
By Valerie Hemingway
Horse Appeal
In this interview, Steve Twomey, author of "Barbaro's Legacy," discusses how interest in the horse extends outside the racetrack
April 01, 2007 |
By Amy Crawford
Frost Bite
A recently discovered poem by Robert Frost has brought fameand controversyto an English student
March 01, 2007 |
By W. Andrew Ewell
Famous Once Again
Longfellow reaches his bicentennial; here's why his poems became perennial
February 2007 |
By Nicholas A. Basbanes
Man of the Century
But 100 years after writing his classic memoir, the question about Henry Adams remains: Which century?
December 2006 |
By Peter Hellman
Tony Hillerman's Mile-High Multiculturalism
Creator of savvy Native American sleuths, author Tony Hillerman cherished his Southwestern high desert home
December 2006 |
By Tony Hillerman
Living With Geese
Novelist and gozzard Paul Theroux ruminates about avian misconceptions, anthropomorphism and March of the Penguins as "a travesty of science"
December 2006 |
By Paul Theroux
An Interview with Stephanie Dickey, author of "Rembrandt at 400"
Stephanie Dickey discusses Rembrandt's ambition and what it was like to see the paintings in person
December 01, 2006 |
By Amy Crawford
Watching Water Run
Uncomfortable in a world of privilege, a novelist headed for the hills
November 2006 |
By Ellen Gilchrist
An Interview with Josh Hammer, Author of "Return to the Marsh"
Ben Block spoke with Josh about Iraq and reporting in dangerous regions of the world.
October 01, 2006 |
By Ben Block
To Be or Not to Be Shakespeare
While skeptics continue to question the authorship of his plays, a new exhibition raises doubts about the authenticity of his portraits.
September 2006 |
By Doug Stewart
Interview with Louise Erdrich
"A Writer's Beginnings" by Louise Erdrich originally appeared in the August 2006 issue of Smithsonian magazine. Here, Erdrich speaks about notable weather, Wal-Mart and writing.
August 01, 2006 |
By Courtney Jordan

