Caitlin Shetterly

Caitlin Shetterly on her book, "Modified: GMOs and the Threat to Our Food, Our Land, Our Future," about her investigation into genetically modified food and its impacts on her family.

Under and Off-Broadway

Most of us don't have a clue how we'd begin to write a novel. In this story, the writer Richard Ford explains how he does it. Richard Ford is one of the best observers of middle-aged American male angst. He’s now in the middle of writing his third ...

The great director Federico Fellini once said that a dark theatre is like a womb — safe, self-contained and life nourishing. The playwright Lanford Wilson toys with that safe feeling. His plays expose what's in the dark, both good and bad. Caitlin Shetterly spoke to Lanford Wilson ...

The great director Federico Fellini once said that a dark theatre is like a womb — safe, self-contained and life nourishing. The playwright Lanford Wilson toys with that safe feeling. His plays expose what's in the dark, both good and bad. Caitlin Shetterly spoke to Lanford Wilson about how ...

The painter’s cast of lonely characters, moody architecture, and empty rooms works its way into America’s imagination.

The writer Caitlin Shetterly grew up in the gaze of a father who was a painter and a mother who was a writer. She reflects on how both parents drew on their daughter as a subject.

The novelist John Updike reads from his essay "At War With My Skin," and explains exactly how his life and work pivot around his skin disorder, psoriasis.