Eleanor Morse is the author of, most recently, White Dog Fell from the Sky, a rich and intimate portrait of Botswana and of three people’s tragic and extraordinary intertwined lives.

Karen DeWitt interviewed the author of How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, a clever, bittersweet, wonderful novel that takes one unnamed man from poverty to riches in a 70-year journey in an unnamed Asian city.

Karen Sagstetter is a writer, editor and teacher who has published poetry and fiction in 40 literary journals. Her collection of short stories, The Thing with Willie was published late last year.

We interview the author of The House Girl, a novel that, in Independent reviewer Gerry Hogan's words, "has so many strengths that it is hard to know which to highlight...."

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One of Africa’s most accomplished writers, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o has taught at Nairobi, Northwestern and Yale Universities and at Amherst College. He is a distinguished professor of English and comparative literature at the University of California at Irvine and an honorary member of the American Academy of Letters.

Philip Hensher is an English novelist, critic and journalist, whose latest novel takes place in a war-torn Bangladesh in the 1970's.

Larry Gibson's Young Thurgood explores the life of the first African-American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Tamas Dobozy is a veteran short story writer who has just released his latest collection, Siege 13, which won the prestigious 2012 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.