Michael Chabon

Biographer Brad Gooch reveals that he traveled 2500 miles to trace Rumi's footsteps, learned Persian and spent eight years to write “Rumi's Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love.”

Actor and director David Oyelowo on the layers of a family film.

Director Barry Jenkins on giving his characters time to breathe.

Actor Kenan Thompson on taking comedy very seriously.

Ximena Vengoechea wants to teach us how to listen again with her new book “Listen Like You Mean It,” but is that even possible in a capitalist world?

Director and actor Natalie Morales on making an R-rated teen comedy about health care.

When Meredith Scardino pitched her musical comedy series “Girls5eva,” about an all-but-forgotten late 1990s girl group that reunites in their forties, she made a fake CD case, complete…

You could say "The Dry," a fine Australian thriller, is partly about global warming.

Sandi Tan speaks about writing “Lurkers” with a gut feeling, and following an emotional momentum.