Essay: Looking back on 29 years of the nation’s greatest storytellers
Dean Nelson reflects on three decades of interviews with America's bestselling authors at his Writer's Symposium by the Sea
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Kyoto Prize winner uses surreal art forms to make sense of the world’s ugly realities
When Nalini Malani was 12, and visiting Tokyo with her parents in the 1950s, her mother told her that they would have difficulty ordering food in a restaurant, since few...
‘Last Queen’ author Chitra Divakaruni returns with novel about three sisters in India
Chitra Divakaruni believes in strong women.Her fiction — which includes "Sister of My Heart," "Mistress of Spices," "Oleander Girl," "Before We Visit The Goddess" and more than a dozen other...
Three Kyoto Prize laureates coming to San Diego will put it in an international spotlight
Burnham is a local business leader and philanthropist who launched the Burnham Center for Community Advancement in San Diego at the new UC San Diego Park & Market campus in...
In her new novel, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni rediscovers India’s long lost queen
There was something about the face on the screen that made her do it.Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, the celebrated Indian novelist who will be in San Diego Oct. 13 and 14,...
Meet Marvel’s latest director: SDSU’s Destin Daniel Cretton
The deadline for finishing "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" was the next day, so I was surprised when my phone showed that its director, Destin Daniel Cretton,...
Destin Daniel Cretton: the calm in the eye of the Hollywood storm
The deadline for finishing "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" was the next day, so I was surprised when my phone showed that its director, Destin Daniel Cretton,...
The gift within the quarantine
Almost every morning since I’ve been working from home these past few months, I watch my neighbors argue. I open my garage door, set up my stationary bike in the...