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  • Donald Hall is a former U.S. poet laureate and was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2010.
    At 86, Poet Donald Hall Writes On, But Leaves Verse Behind
    The former U.S. poet laureate says he can't write poetry any more, but still has some prose in him. In a new book, Essays After Eighty, he considers his art, his beard and his experience growing old.
  • 'My Father's Guitar' Plays On Perception And Memory
    Joseph Skibell's new collection of personal essays is full of offbeat life lessons, moving from whimsy to weight. And, as he puts it, though the stories are true, they're full of "imaginary things."
  • There's Method To The Mad Satire Of 'Censorship Now!!'
    Washington D.C. punk legend Ian Svenonius veers from anarchist tirade to Swiftian satire in this new essay collection, which takes aim at tipping, Ikea, censorship, music and yes, NPR too.
  • Peter Sagal
    Peter Sagal
    A native of Berkeley Heights, N.J., Peter Sagal attended Harvard University and subsequently squandered that education while working as a literary manager for a regional theater, a movie publicist, a stage director, an actor, an extra in a Michael Jackson video, a travel writer, an essayist, a ghost writer for a former adult film impresario and a staff writer for a motorcycle magazine.
  • Making Art From Art: 5 Nonfiction Reads For Summer
    No fiction? No problem! Annalisa Quinn shares five summer reads that look at art in a few stranger-than-fiction ways. Classic mythology and Spider-Man? An antlered hat with feathers? Have your Dutch minimalist-inspired cake and eat it too!
  • Literary Biographies with Sue Ellen Thompson #4- Jack Gilbert, the Man Who Loved Women
    Welcome to Delmarva Public Radio’s celebration of National Poetry Month featuring “Literary Biographies with Sue Ellen Thompson.” I’m your host Harold…
  • Roxane Gay On Acknowledging — And Owning — Her 'Bad' Feminism
    Yes, her new essay collection is called Bad Feminist, but Roxane Gay says the title — originally jokey — grew into a larger message about owning your feminism even when you're not perfect at it.
  • A Veteran Scientist Dreams Boldly Of 'Earth And Sky'
    Famous — and occasionally controversial — physicist Freeman Dyson's new essay collection ranges from scientific history to today's hot-button issues like climate change and genetic engineering.
  • Camus' 'Chronicles': A History Of The Past, A Guide For The Future
    Albert Camus' Algerian Chronicles, finally available in translation, collects essays, columns and speeches from the writer's days as a young journalist. Camus was criticized for his moderate approach to the French-Algerian war, but reviewer Jason Farrago says Chronicles is a guide to "how to be just in a difficult world."
  • Writer Rax King on her favorite book, 'Dancing Queen' by Lisa Carver
    NPR's Juana Summers talks with writer Rax King about one of her favorite books, "Dancing Queen" by Lisa Carver.
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