<p>9/11 REMEMBERED: Philippe Petit spent years planning his illegal 1974 performance at the World Trade Center where he tight-rope walked between the Twin Towers. Petit looks back at the event and talks about what the destruction of the Towers meant for him.</p>
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jonathan Harris created the website wefeelfine.org. He tells Steve Paulson how it works, and we hear a montage of postings from the site.
Literary critics have deemed Laura van den Berg one of American's best new writers. Listen in as she talks about the roles of memory and forgetting in our lives, and in her debut novel, "Find Me."
Phil Toledano was worried about the future. So he decided to look it in the face. He took a DNA test and hired a special effects makeup artist to help him become different versions of his future self. Then he staged photos. They're the subject of a new book, MAYBE, and a new film.
Mimi Sheraton, a travel writer, went to the Polish town of Bialystock to find the origins of her favorite bread from childhood, the bialy. It’s a crusty onion roll invented by the Jews.
What do the three Abrahamic religions have in common about the concept of heaven?
Austerity is a choice, and some question if it's a good one.
Physicist Janna Levin tells Steve Paulson why she wanted to write about mathematicians Alan Turing and Kurt Godel, and why her book is a novel.
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