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  • Poets & Writers
    Reading Dostoyevsky For Thanksgiving
    November 23, 2016
    | Laurie Sheck
    Thoughts on empathy in hard times.
  • Audio Slideshow: The Saint of Cabora
    May 4, 2012
    | Theresa Riley
    In memories and photos, Urrea introduces us to his great aunt Teresa "Teresita" Urrea, a legendary 19th century Mexican figure.
  • Queen of America Book Excerpt
    May 4, 2012
    | Luis Alberto Urrea
    Luis Alberto Urrea's latest book follows the epic journey of his great-aunt Teresa Urrea from Mexico to turn-of-the-century industrial America.
  • Interviews with Pulitzer Prize Winners
    April 19, 2012
    | Theresa Riley
    Monday's prize announcement inspired us to pull together a selection of video interviews with past Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists, writers and poets.
  • Author and Illustrator Maurice Sendak
    March 12, 2004
    | BillMoyers.com Staff
    Bill gives viewers a look into the private world of Maurice Sendak in an unexpectedly candid interview.
  • Appreciations: An Interview with Doris Lessing
    January 24, 2003 | Updated October 26, 2015
    In this wide-ranging 2003 interview with Bill, the Nobel-prize winning novelist Doris Lessing, who passed away Sunday, opens up about her fascinating life.
  • Herman Gollob on Shakespeare Today
    April 26, 2002
    | BillMoyers.com Staff
    Bill interviews author Herman Gollob on the modern relevance of Shakespeare's work.
  • Toni Morrison: Dealing with Race in Literature (Part Two)
    March 11, 1990
    | BillMoyers.com Staff
    Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Toni Morrison on the lack of discourse about race in literary criticism and the silent history of black characters in books.
  • Toni Morrison on Love and Writing (Part One)
    March 11, 1990
    | BillMoyers.com Staff
    The writer talks about subjects that inspire both her life and writing with Bill Moyers in this classic 1990 conversation.
  • Maxine Hong Kingston on Imagination and Writing (Part Two)
    March 4, 1990
    | BillMoyers.com Staff
    In the second part of this 1990 interview with Bill Moyers, author Maxine Hong Kingston explains how she blends tales of tradition and her own American experience in her writing.


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