Family secrets kept close
The best-selling author of "Reading Lolita in Tehran" gives us a new memoir and a glimpse of her prominent Iranian family; a complex mother and fascinating father, a mayor of Tehran who was jailed under the Shah.9:06 a.m.Azar Nafisi: author of "Things I've Been Silent About." She is a Visiting Professor and the director of the SAIS Dialogue Project at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, where she is a professor of aesthetics, culture, and literature. She is author of bestseller "Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books."
Columnist Amy Dickinson's small town roots
Syndicated advice columnist Amy Dickinson celebrates the small town where she grew up. And where she spent some time as a single parent, raising her daughter with the help of her tough-to-impress extended family.10:06 a.m.Amy Dickinson: Author of "The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, a Daughter, and the Town That Raised Them."
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