Ashley Lynn Hlebinsky is the curator of the Cody Firearms Museum (the most comprehensive collection of American firearms in the world) in Cody, Wyoming. She says we should strip away the politics and the myth around guns and also view them as important historic objects.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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How does his childhood as a Jehovah's Witness play a role in his novel?
Sarah Bunting is one of the founders of the website Televisionwithoutpity.com, a site for people who have a love/hate relationship with TV.
Stephen Thompson is the founder of the A.V. Club, the arts section of the satirical newspaper, "The Onion," originally based in Madison, Wisconsin. Thompson eventually left Madison for Washington DC, to work at NPR as an editor and reviewer at NPR Music. In this interview, Thompson tells Steve Paulson about the forces that drew "The Onion" staff to New York, and what it means to be an artist in the Heartland.
Shane Harris tells Steve Paulson that our government is collecting masses of data on ordinary people in its efforts to catch terrorists.
Sticky Fingers is a tribute band whose members impersonate The Rolling Stones. Steven Kurutz spent a year with them and wrote about it in a book called "Like A Rolling Stone: The Strange Life of A Tribute Band."
Marion Nestle is a long-time food industry activist and the author of "Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda (and Winning)." She explains why sodas are about race and class in America.
William Powers wrote "Hamlet's Blackberry: A Practical Philosophy for Building A Good Life in the Digital Age" because he feared people were getting lost in their electronic worlds.
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