And they say band leader Rivers Cuomo still writes fresh and funny songs seventeen years after the band started.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

She also said that after she writes the last word, she goes back later,re-reads the story and then writes a new version.

VOA: special.2011.03.18

Baseball expert Richard Miller writes that many songs about other subjects -- such as love -- use words and expressions from baseball.

VOA: special.2011.04.04

In a recent American Life in Poetry column, he writes about the poem "Betrayal" by Andrea Hollander Budy.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

She writes about Henrietta's childhood on a tobacco farm in Virginia, her marriage and her move to Baltimore,Maryland.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

Mary Dawson, in her Internet Writing Journal, writes that this season influenced songwriters to write some of the greatest songs of all time.

VOA: special.2009.11.09

She writes a newspaper column in New York about dating and relationships, and her love for shoes.

VOA: special.2010.06.14

The author,Aife Murray, writes that over the years, Dickinson employed an ethnically diverse group of servants.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

A hacker is usually a person who writes software programs in a special computer language.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

Mister Campbell writes that William Randolph Hearst did not think that reporters should be neutral.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

A question from the teacher. Susanna Wesson writes: "I teach English to French students of engineering who benefit very much from your Foreign Student Series.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

She writes that academic cheating is a result of communication failure between students and professors.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

Another man in Seattle,Washington writes about his familys terrible experience fleeing first from China, then from Cambodia and Vietnam before arriving in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

He writes about the connection between an important Southern family and the local community.

VOA: special.2010.01.03