Paula Apsell, Senior Executive Producer of the PBS series, Nova, talks with Steve Paulson about story choice and how to interview scientists.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Crime fiction from India? Sample a bit of Kishwar Desai's award-winning novel, Witness the Night. Read by Marika Suval.
Columnist Maureen Dowd says that a lot of people still don’t understand that a columnist is supposed to have a point of view.
Journalist Jean Zimmerman says that Americans are in the process of throwing away centuries of domestic skills and traditions.
Have you been to the High Line yet? It’s a new park in Manhattan, full of sunbathers, lush plantings and strolling locals. It’s also about 30 feet above the ground, built on the bed of an old elevated train line. Writer Annik La Farge talks about the park, five years into its reinvention.
Best-selling novelist Jane Hamilton shares some of her favorite endings from modern literature with Steve Paulson.
Errol Morris made a documentary about Abu Ghraib called "Standard Operating Procedure." Journalist Philip Gourevitch and Morris have written a companion book that examines what really happened at Abu Ghraib.
Charles Bukowski reads his poem, "The Poetry Reading." Then, Kristen Asbjornsen speaks with Jim Fleming from her home in Norway and explains how she set Bukowski's poems to music. And we hear the results.
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