Monday, Jun. 25, 2007 | The Kojo Nnamdi Show

He's a writer with family roots in the southern mountains of Appalachia going back almost three hundred years. We speak with Ron Rash, often called 'the chronicler of Modern Appalachia" about his work as a poet and novelist. Plus we...

The U.S. News and World Report college rankings are a must-read for students and parents around the country. But dozens of colleges are now revolting against the magazine's rankings, vowing to develop their own method for assessing a...

Armistead Maupin became a gay rights icon when his "Tales of the City" column first appeared thirty three years ago in a San Francisco newspaper. Now after more than a decade out of the limelight, he's picked up the storyline of his...