McCall Smith will come to Tulsa for a special event April 17 at the Oklahoma State University-Tulsa auditorium, 700 N. Greenwood Ave. Tickets for this event will be $15 and may be purchased online at tulsaworld.com/mytix Tulsa Reads is a communitywide in

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WHEN it comes to politics, Alexander McCall Smith is studiously neutral: pressed on what his characters will make of the independence debate at last week’s Scotsman Literary Dinner, he said he hadn’t yet made up his own mind and could see both points of

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Although reading is that most solitary of pursuits, it draws us into a fully populated world. Fictional people become real and real people are animated through histories and biographies. I will never meet Barack Obama, but I can read what he has chosen t

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