Like many writers, Australian author Richard Flanagan wanted to write about what he knew and loved. His experiences, though, are a little out of the ordinary. He grew in Tasmania, the island a couple of hundred miles off the Australian coast, and worked as a river guide on the Franklin River which rages through the wilderness. As a result his novel "Death of a River Guide" is a little out of the ordinary too. It tells the story of a man with his head jammed between two rocks underwater who is slowly drowning. He told Minnesota Public Radio's Euan Kerr he wasn't sure how to write a book but knew he wanted to...as he puts it... "sing his world into being."