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Thursday, April 5, 2018: John Carter Cash and Jewel, Junot Díaz and more

Today on q: singer-songwriters John Carter Cash and Jewel, author Nathan Ripley, poet Ronna Bloom, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Díaz.
Today on q: singer-songwriters John Carter Cash and Jewel, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Díaz, poet Ronna Bloom, author Nathan Ripley. (David McClister, Getty Images, Simon & Schuster, Nina Subin)

Today on q, with Tom Power: (1) singer-songwriters John Carter Cash and Jewel on coming together to record Johnny Cash's unheard songs; (2) author Nathan Ripley, the pen name of Naben Ruthnum, discusses his debut thriller and explains why he adopted a pseudonym; (3) Mount Sinai Hospital poet-in-residence Ronna Bloom talks about using poetry as medicine; (4) Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Díaz on Islandborn, a picture book 20 years in the making.