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Vanity Fair calls Nicholson Baker "the best writer of our generation." The highly versatile and complex author of five novels, including the erotic masterpiece Vox, Baker is the recipient of the National Book Critic Circle Award for nonficti…

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On the eve of being deployed to Iraq, men and women of the Third Infantry Brigade, the first ground troops to be sent to the Persian Gulf, open their hearts and minds in a way not often heard on the media. Four married couples frankly discuss moral issues, infidelity, and sexual harassment as well as the topics more commonly broached by reporters. Two combat veterans among them tell of their experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan. The result is a candid and intimate portrait of professional soldiers trying to combine the disparate worlds of love and war.

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Danny Ledford tends his peacocks after a full day as a cabinet maker. Larry Glover raises cattle and is an engineer for Lockheed. Teacher Sherry Haney and her husband, a diesel mechanic, aren't finished with work until they clear the kudzu and feed the hogs. On 4 acres or 400, young people in Georgia are finding ways to keep the family farm alive. The classified ads of an 85-year-old farmers'newspaper take us back in time, to the reminscences of Buford Carey, a sharecropper who remembers cutting wheat by hand, and forward into the hearts and minds of people with a passion for the land. Fainting goats. Booming ostriches. Scuppernongs and muscadines, widow's tears and angel's trumpet-for this producer, it was a kind of mysterious poetry, for some 270, 000 subscribers, the Georgia Market Bulletin is a lifeline to a vanishing institution.

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Among his many awards, Tracy Kidder is the recipient of the Pulizer Prize, The National Book Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Award. He is the author of 6 books, including his latest work Mountains Beyond Mountains . This program is part of The Writers Studio, a 7 part series recorded in 2003/2004 at Theatre Three in Dallas, Texas with a live audience, who were able to ask questions during the event. The series was originally broadcast on KERA 90.1 in April and May of 2004. Hosted by veteran reporter Gary Reeves and professor Randy Gordon. Produced by Yolette Garcia and Susan Schewe and engineered and mixed by Eric Bright. The Writers Studio is made possible by support from The National Endowment for the Arts, The City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs, The Writers League of Texas, The Texas Commission for the Arts, The Adolphus Hotel, Paperbacks Plus and the members of KERA 90.1.

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The highly entertaining and irreverent T.C. Boyle has made numerous appearances on television and radio. His novel The Road To Wellville was made into a film starring Anthony Hopkins. He has authored several short story collections and novels and i…

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This Peabody Award-winning documentary, hosted by Marcos Martinez, tells the tale of two countries in four stories: "Sasabe" - In a Sonora, Mexico, border town, Scott Carrier talks with immigrants on their hazardous, illegal desert crossing, and to the border patrol agents waiting for them in Arizona. "The Devil's Highway" - Luis Alberto Urrea reads from his book about death in the desert. "Maquiladoras of the Future" - Guillermo Gomez-Pe?a imagines fantasy border factories. "And I Walked..." - A sound-portrait of Mexicans who risk their lives to find better-paying jobs in the United States, by Ann Heppermann and Kara Oehler.

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Achilles Rizzoli never missed a day of work in his fifty years as an architectural draftsman in San Francisco but his real efforts began at night, in the kitchen of the lonely bachelor. There, he poured all the dreams of his ardent soul, by turns humorous…

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Deep In Our Hearts is an award winning hour-long documentary about four white women who defied the color line to work in the southern Civil Rights Movement. But more so, it's a story of how acting on your ideals can shape your life and effect socie…

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Girls From Cambodia includes emotional firsthand accounts of brave young Cambodian women, speaking frankly about being sold into sexual slavery, escaping their captors, and their hopes for a different future. This poignant portrayal features Chanthol Oung, the founder of the Cambodian Women's Crisis Center who has forged the struggle against a deeply entrenched system of human trafficking.