The stereotype of photojournalists is that they’re adrenaline junkies. Risk takers. But they're often surprisingly humble about their work -- maybe because their job is to erase themselves, to become the lens that lets us see the world. Here photojournalist Brendan Bannon talks about finding beauty in the midst of suffering and about a photo he took at the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Producer Charles Monroe-Kane lives a few blocks from the house where an Afrian-American teenager was recently killed by a white police officer. The impacts of the shooting have been rippling through the mixed-race neighborhood. Charles and his family are whiet. Here's how they are responding.
Mark Brend tells Anne Strainchamps about odd inventions like the Ondes Martenot and how composers have used them.
Lesley Kagen was a Milwaukee girl. But she blew off Wisconsin for the bright lights of LA, where she lived for 10 years. But despite the lures of California, something about Milwaukee kept calling her home.
Jay Parini is a poet, novelist and teacher. He's also the author of "Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America." He tells Jim Fleming that his is not a list of "great books" but rather books that significantly changed the literary climate of American culture.
Judy Blunt was born on a cattle ranch in Montana. She talks with Anne Strainchamps about her attitude towards animals, and why she finally had to walk away from ranch life.
Merge is a quartet that combines poetry with jazz music. Cassandra Cleghorn and Erik Lawrence talk with Jim Fleming about their art and how much they have in common with the Beats.
Jessica Lamb-Shapiro attended a conference of self-help authors featuring Mark Victor Hansen of "Chicken Soup for the..." fame.
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