AMERICAN MOSAIC - A Novel Set in Hurricane Katrina Wins National Book Award DOUG JOHNSON: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Im Doug Johnson. Today we play music from the first album of the West Coast band Blouse ... And we an...
AMERICAN MOSAIC - The Art of Fielding is a Novel About Baseball and Much More DOUG JOHNSON: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. Im Doug Johnson. Today, we play music by the new country western group Pistol Annies. We also answer a ques...
Novel Explores How People React During Natural Disasters In August, as Hurricane Irene unleashed wind and rain along the U.S. East Coast, author John Shors found himself on a book tour, promoting his new novel, Cross Currents, which was inspired by t...
US Woman's Afghan Experience Inspires Novel Farishta means 'angel' in Dari, the widely spoken language in northern Afghanistan. It's also the title of a novel by Patricia McArdle, a retired American diplomat who spent a year in Afghanistan. Over her...
Writer Takes Trans-Pacific Journey in New Novel The writer Lisa See takes readers on a trans-Pacific journey in her latest novel, Dreams of Joy. The book is a sequel to See's 2009 novel Shanghai Girls, which tells the story of two sisters, Pearl and...
By Brent Hurd Washington 27 March 2007 watch Rural Community Library The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has granted one million dollars to the group Rural Education and Development or READ, a non-government organization that establishes village li...
By Alan Silverman Hollywood 10 March 2006 Colin Farrell and Salma Hayek co-star in a romantic drama set in Los Angeles during the Great Economic Depression, adapted from a landmark novel by John Fante...