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Q&A: Marisa Handler explores global activist journey in memoir

For Marisa Handler, 31, her coming-of-age as a global activist happened just after the 9/11 attacks in the United States, when she was working in India as a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle.


Tobias Wolff on the Connection Between Writing and Life

Growing up, award-winning author Tobias Wolff always knew that he wanted to join the military and be a writer one day. He accomplished both, joining the military when he was 18 and publishing his first short story collection, “In the Garden of the North American Martyrs,” in 1981.