How does his childhood as a Jehovah's Witness play a role in his novel?
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Wagner James Au, who writes about video games for salon.com, tells Jim Fleming about “State of Emergency,” the game that lets you attack global capitalism.
Ron Shaich, the founder of Panera Bread Company, has come up with a new business model: cafes where customers pay what they want or can afford.
Scott Simon, host of NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday, and his wife have adopted two baby girls from China. Simon tells Anne Strainchamps why he and his wife are such fans of adoption.
T. Coraghessan Boyle talks with Steve Paulson about writing in response to hot button issues.
As a growing number of people "come back from the dead" thanks to new resusitation techniques, there's are more stories of what it's like to die. In this discussion, doctors and scientists talk about trying to understand "near death experience."
Salman Rushdie talks with Steve Paulson about "The Satanic Verses" – the novel that caused a furor in the Muslim world and sent its author into hiding for a decade.
Signe Pike chucked her job at a NY publishing house to looking for fairies in Mexico and the British Isles.
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