Meet the popular blogger who launched a national conversation when she stripped down to her size 18 swimsuit on national television. Brittany Gibbons is a body image advocate who wants to help women everywhere feel comfortable in their own skin. Every inch of it.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Ellen Ruppel Shell talks with Anne Strainchamps about the effects of our obsession with low prices.
Frank Rich tells Jim Fleming that the Broadway musicals of his childhood were all about dysfunctional families and helped him cope with his own difficult family situation.
What does it mean to be free? And what does it mean to live a personally authentic, honest life with ourselves and with others? These are the questions that Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their existential friends wrestled with in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Sarah Bakewell makes the case that their late-night conversations are especially relevant today. She's the author of "At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails."
Carolyn Wyman talks about the history of Wonder Bread. It really does seem to be the greatest thing since sliced bread.
David Liss talks about how different trials were in the 18th century, and explains that modern patterns of thinking were only beginning to take hold.
Edward P. Jones won the Pulitzer Prize for his first novel, "The Known World." His short story collection is called "All Aunt Hagar's Children."
Clyde Prestowitz tells Jim Fleming that India has an educated, skilled work force and can do business in English, so it's cashing in thanks to an internet-based economy.
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