Canadian Author Alice Munro
Munro has a new collection called "Selected Stories." Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and The Paris Review. She's written seven previous short story collections, and has received Canada's highest literary prize three times.
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Director Anthony Minghella on Adapting "The English Patient"
Film director Anthony Minghella. He made his film debut with the highly acclaimed, "Truly, Madly, Deeply." His latest project is the film version of the novel "The English Patient," by Michael Ondaatje which won England's prestigious Booker Prize in 1992.
A Post-Mortem on this Year's Election Coverage
TV critic David Bianculli reflects on how networks covered the presidential campaigns.
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