Growing Up, From Utopia To Reality In ‘Arcadia’
Dystopian worlds may be all the rage in fiction right now, but writer Lauren Groff is bucking that trend. She’s …
Customer Service Nightmares, Now Onstage
Playwright Lisa Kron mines her own life to create her often-hilarious work. She has written about being the child of …
NewsPoet: Kevin Young Writes The Day In Verse
Today at All Things Considered we continue a project we’re calling NewsPoet. Each month we bring in a poet to …
Harry Crews On Writing And Feeling Like A ‘Freak’
This interview was originally broadcast on May 23, 1988. Writer Harry Crews had a hard life and didn’t made it …
‘Thrones,’ ‘Killing’ Return — And Revert To Old Habits
AMC’s The Killing started strong, with raves from critics and an impressively loyal core of viewers. But in the final …
Adrienne Rich On The Powerful, Powerless Mother
A young female poet was speaking to a male poet at a party. “Women shouldn’t write poems,” he told her. …
Vulgar, Dirty And Wrong
On a recent commute to work, I found myself listening to a recording of Cole Porter playing a song he …
Pop Culture Happy Hour: ‘The Hunger Games’ And Regrettable Television
On this week’s Pop Culture Happy Hour, we’re finally all back together again, with Trey back from his brief illness. …
James Cameron: Diving Deep, Dredging Up Titanic
Titanic is back. The 1997 blockbuster featuring star-crossed lovers Jack and Rose is being released in 3-D. Starring Kate Winslet …
The Art Of The Everyday: The Alchemy Of Anne Tyler
Authors today vie for the attention of the reading public with interviews, Facebook postings and tweets. But Anne Tyler, whose …
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