Email Author Rhena Tantisunthorn

2009 Stories by Rhena Tantisunthorn

• Trapped Inside Burma

  published September 16, 2009

  In May 2008, Cyclone Nargis ripped through the low-lying delta region of Burma. By some estimates, 140,000 people died in the cyclone and the... More >>

• Kate Ledger

  published September 9, 2009

  Simon and Emily Bear are the type of couple you might be reluctant to make dinner plans with for fear that they'll have a fight or some other... More >>

• American Pottery Festival

  published September 9, 2009

  Admit it: There have been countless times when you've driven down Franklin Avenue and thought, "I really want to check out that Northern Clay... More >>

• Ali Sethi

  published June 10, 2009

  Ali Sethi's first book, The Wish Maker (Riverhead Hardcover), arrives just in time to fill the vacuum of cultural knowledge on Pakistan... More >>

• George Rabasa

  published June 3, 2009

  No one, except (maybe) fellow scribes, actually wants to read about or watch writers being writers. Remember the MTV reality show I'm from... More >>

• Tom Standage

  published June 3, 2009

  Consider a grain of rice. In the context of our modern diet, and particularly in its whole brown form, it is a cheap, handy packet of... More >>

• Minnesota's Greatest Generation: The Depression, The War, The Boom

  published May 20, 2009

  If the hardest of minerals can only be created under the most extreme of pressure, perhaps our Greatest Generation could only be forged in the... More >>

• Untold Stories: The 1934 Teamster Strikes

  published May 20, 2009

  In 1934, the tension was rising with the summer heat on the streets of Minneapolis. As violence flared up around the city between striking... More >>

• Michael Pollan

  published May 13, 2009

  For those who have little time to read a whole book on food but want to know how best to amend their fast-food ways, the central thesis of Michael... More >>

• Christian Moerk

  published April 29, 2009

  In his first novel, Darling Jim (Henry Holt and Co.), Christian Moerk weaves a tale of murder, romance, and intrigue into the green,... More >>

• Hester Rumberg

  published April 29, 2009

  Parts of Hester Rumberg's Ten Degrees of Reckoning (Putnam Books) are almost too painful to read. The nonfiction work tells the story of... More >>

• Talk of the Stacks: David Rhodes

  published April 29, 2009

  At last. After a 30-year hiatus, David Rhodes is back on the literary scene with Driftless (Milkweed Editions), a novel about a small... More >>

• This American Life Live

  published April 22, 2009

  When the dulcet tones of Ira Glass's voice bring you tales of life in America each week, do you often wonder what's going on behind the scenes? Do... More >>

• This American Life Live

  published April 22, 2009

  When the dulcet tones of Ira Glass's voice bring you tales of life in America each week, do you often wonder what's going on behind the scenes? Do... More >>

• This American Life Live

  published April 22, 2009

  When the dulcet tones of Ira Glass's voice bring you tales of life in America each week, do you often wonder what's going on behind the scenes? Do... More >>

• This American Life Live

  published April 22, 2009

  When the dulcet tones of Ira Glass's voice bring you tales of life in America each week, do you often wonder what's going on behind the scenes? Do... More >>

• This America Life Live

  published April 22, 2009

  When the dulcet tones of Ira Glass's voice bring you tales of life in America each week, do you often wonder what's going on behind the scenes? Do... More >>

• This American Life Live

  published April 22, 2009

  When the dulcet tones of Ira Glass's voice bring you tales of life in America each week, do you often wonder what's going on behind the scenes? Do... More >>

• This American Life Live

  published April 22, 2009

  When the dulcet tones of Ira Glass's voice bring you tales of life in America each week, do you often wonder what's going on behind the scenes? Do... More >>

• Talk of the Stacks: Tom Robbins

  published April 22, 2009

  In his newest book, B Is for Beer (Ecco), Tom Robbins takes us on a beer-making journey from the barley fields to the beer garden through... More >>

• Loree Rackstraw

  published April 15, 2009

  At first glance, Loree Rackstraw's homage to her friendship with one of the world's greatest writers, Kurt Vonnegut, reads like a who's-who of the... More >>

• Loree Rackstraw

  published April 15, 2009

  At first glance, Loree Rackstraw's homage to her friendship with one of the world's greatest writers, Kurt Vonnegut, reads like a who's-who of the... More >>

• Sara Barron

  published April 15, 2009

  I am not the first person to describe Sara Barron's essay collection, People Are Unappealing: Even Me (Three Rivers Press), as "Sedarisian"... More >>

• Cary J. Griffith

  published April 8, 2009

  In his second work of nonfiction, Cary J. Griffith, author of Lost in the Wild: Danger and Survival in the North Woods, refocuses his... More >>

• Cary J. Griffith

  published April 8, 2009

  In his second work of nonfiction, Cary J. Griffith, author of Lost in the Wild: Danger and Survival in the North Woods, refocuses his... More >>