Writer Junot Diaz tells us why he's a big fan of Samuel R. Delany's novel, "Dark Reflections".
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Christopher Moore talks about untranslatable words.
The Silk Road was once the great meeting place between the East and the West - a network of ancient trading routes winding through China and India, across Central Asia and Iran to the Mediterranean.
Videographer Frank Boll is satisfied with only a few seconds of good wolf footage in his series "Wolves in Wisconsin". He talks about what it took to get that much.
Psychiatrist Darold Treffert is one of the world's authorities on savant syndrome. In this EXTENDED interview, he calls savants "islands of genius" and says we won't understand consciousness until we figure out what's happening in the minds of savants.
Storyteller Donald Davis spends Thanksgiving on Oracoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina. He tells one of his family’s favorite Thanksgiving tales.
Artist Natasha Nicholson makes contemporary cabinets of curiosity, but not simply to gaze at – they are her world. Nicholson lives inside her own art, highly curated rooms in an old storefront in Madison, Wisconsin.
Her solo show that reproduces her ENTIRE studio space is at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.
David Shields talks with Anne Strainchamps about his book, which is a meditation on how our bodies decay and die, and his irrepressible father who is 97 and who doesn't give death the time of day.
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