George Paunescu Ramona Ausubel reads a passage from her new novel, No One is Here Except All of Us, about a Romanian village that tries to imagine away the horrors of World War II. Via KQED About the Author: Ramona Ausubel is a writer from Santa Fe, New Mexico. She holds an MFA from the…
Read MoreWorld Trade Center, Hall Groat II Matt Ruff reads a passage from his new novel The Mirage, an alternate history of 9/11 and its aftermath. Via KQED About the Author: Matt Ruff is an author from New York City who resides in Seattle, Washington.
Read MoreTonic Moment: Lucky, Francis Berry, 2002 Ellen Ullman reads from her latest novel, By Blood, about a disgraced professor in ’70s San Francisco. Via KQED About the Author: Ellen Ullman is an American author and computer programmer. She has written novels as well as articles for various publications, including Harper’s, Wired, The New York Times…
Read MoreMcGeorge Bundy with John F. Kennedy by Inderjeet Parmer “SWITZERLAND EXPOSED,” screamed the title of a book I happened to see recently, drawing a wry smile, and a feeling of “you can’t be serious!” That’s the usual response when people hear about my new research on American philanthropic foundations, which argues that they are not…
Read MoreSamcheok, South Korea. Photograph by Sheila Bocchine Krys Lee reads a passage from her new novel, Drifting House, about a South Korean woman who travels to America to search for her daughter whom she believes has been kidnapped. Thanks to KQED About the Author: Krys Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea, raised in California…
Read MoreAbout the Author: Lauren Groff was born in 1978 in Cooperstown, N.Y. She graduated from Amherst College and has an MFA in fiction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her short stories have appeared in the New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, One Story and Subtropics.
Read Moreby Shuwei Fang Dan Breznitz is an Associate Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology’s Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and The College of Management, and is an Associate Professor by courtesy at the School of Public Policy. Prof. Breznitz’s most recent book (co-authored with Michael Murphree) is The Run of the Red Queen: Government,…
Read MoreTamas Cristina Trinie Dalton reads “Escape Mushroom Style,” a short story from her new collection, Baby Geisha. Via KQED About the Author: Trinie Dalton is the author of the story collection Wide Eyed and the novella A Unicorn is Born. She is also the co-editor of Dear New Girl or Whatever Your Name Is and…
Read MoreZdzisław Beksiński Ryan Boudinot reads a passage from his new novel, Blueprints of the Afterlife, set in a a post-apocalyptic America. Via KQED
Read MoreDiscovery, René Magritte, 1927 Ellis Avery reads a passage from her new novel, The Last Nude. Via KQED
Read MoreFrom Chapter 11, “There is Money. Spend it”: America Since 1945: “There IS money. Spend it, spend it; spend more.” —Ford in Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II, Scene 2 Q. Mr. President, I would like to ask you a question about what people should do to make the recession recede. THE PRESIDENT: Buy.…
Read MoreRetired tuzlaci playing chess, Slatina. Photograph by Muhamed Mesic Ismet Prcic reads from his debut novel, Shards. Thanks to KQED
Read Moreby Hilal Khashan Dictators, be they benevolent or malevolent, are incapable of compromise. Because of their constitutional makeup, they see the world as black or white. The Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is not an exception to the rule. He is not receptive to engagement in serious political reforms to placate his country’s burgeoning protest movement,…
Read MoreLiu Xiaobo’s photograph on the front of the Grand Hotel, Oslo
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