We know a lot about how slaves looked at books because of the hundreds of slave narratives they wrote. Scholar Cherene Sherrard-Johnson says a fundamental trope in those narratives is what’s called “the Talking Book.”
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Two experts talk about Vastu, a Hindu philosophy for designing buildings in harmony with the universe.
Guitarist Sharon Isbin talks with Steve Paulson about how she came to the guitar as a child, why women have a harder time than men being accepted as guitarists.
Timothy Ryback is a Holocaust scholar and tells Steve Paulson the shocking truth that the two books that most influenced Hitler's thinking were American.
William Ury tells Jim Fleming that simply being able to talk about past oppression is a powerful healing tool.
An audio installation that gives tropical plants the tools to play synthesizers, allowing people to experience biorhythms as live music.
Stacy Holman Jones is the author of "Torch Singing." She loves the music, but as an avowed feminist.
S.T. Joshi says Lovecraft was always interested in pure science and has many imitators among contemporary writers.
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