Cathleen Medwick reviews The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz for O, The Oprah Magazine

In Let the Great World Spin, novelist Colum McCann plays with the idea of balance, starting with Philippe Petit's 1974 glorious tightrope walk between the Twin Towers, and in stories of ordinary New Yorkers tied, however tangentially, to that event. Read

Name any writer you've ever wanted to meet, and chances are Michael Silverblatt has interviewed them on his weekly public radio show--a mad tea party of talk that's been going strong for the past 20 years. Kristy Davis meets the man behind the mike.

On her Oprah Radio show, Oprah talks with author, academic and dream therapist, Rodger Kamenetz about his book The History of Last Night's Dream.

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