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How do great books get written? Author and noted created writing teacher Margot Livesey delves into the inner workings of fiction,...

Author Laila Lalami discusses her acclaimed novel The Moor’s Account, a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Priz...

In a discussion of his new book Prohibition in Kansas City, Missouri: Highballs, Spooners & Crooked Dice, local historian and blog...

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Thomas Fox Averill discusses his most recent novel – Found Documents from the Life of Nell Johnson Doerr –t...

Thomas Frank is a liberal by conviction but an equal-opportunity critic of America’s foundering political system. In a discussion of...

Rutgers University historian Rachel Devlin examines an underappreciated aspect of civil rights history – the crucial role of young African-Amer...

From four different prisons over 27 years of confinement, Nelson Mandela penned a multitude of letters to prison authorities, government officials, co...

C.J. Janovy, former editor of The Pitch and now the digital content editor for public radio affiliate KCUR, examines the evo...