Pulitzer Prize-winning author — and Inauguration-Day baby — Robert Olen Butler discusses his work and and the role that presidential characters play in his fiction.

It's been four years since Barack Obama used 'hope' in his presidential campaign message. Author and journalist Héctor Tobar talks about how he sees hope where he lives.

Poet Tracy K. Smith offers her perspective on Barack Obama's campaign message of hope four years later.

In his new semi-autobiographical book, Douglas Kennedy explores the successes and failings that come with making it as a writer in Hollywood.