The poet and Pulitzer-nominated playwright discusses four books by her closest teachers.

With the cartoonist’s new graphic novel, she appears once again to be trying for the “light, fun” book she’s longed to write.

Smit utilizes this same theme in "Mystery of Los Panos" for his hero, Bart Eckland. The character's initial focus is searching for gold in the Amazon and has to smuggle it across countries in the ...