Author Kate Cohen reads a piece she wrote for SongWriter about how – despite her firm atheism – the Jewish... more

Freddy Mutanguha, who is the CEO of the Aegis Trust – the organization that built the Kigali Genocide Memorial –... more

During a performance at KQED Live, comedian and filmmaker W. Kamau Bell tells a story about his father’s 80th birthday... more

Bestselling Cameroonian-American author Imbolo Mbue shares an excerpt she chose from How Beautiful We Were, about a village’s collective fight... more

At a live performance at Queens College, legendary author Joyce Carol Oates reads a piece about her beloved late husband... more

At a live performance at KQED in San Francisco, bestselling author and New Yorker staff writer Susan Orlean tells a... more

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David Sedaris reads an excerpt from Theft By Finding, and Jacob Ewald of the band Slaughter Beach, Dog talks about... more

Bestselling author Raven Leilani reads an excerpt from her story "Breathing Exercise," and Elysian Fields share a new song called... more