In this extended interview, literary scholar Rob Nixon explains why he recently re-read all of Carson’s writing, and says her legacy endures – from her warnings about environmental toxins in “Silent Spring” to her lyrical essays about the wonder of oceans.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Louis Colaianni thinks anyone can be taught to speak Shakespeare. He gives Anne Strainchamps a lesson using the introduction to “Romeo and Juliet.”
Biographer Robert Caro tells the remarkable story of how Lyndon Johnson became president after being humiliated as vice-president by John and Robert Kennedy.
Religious historian Karen Armstrong doesn’t like the either/or, good/evil dichotomy. She believes we are hard-wired to be both selfish and kind.
Joyce Johnson talks with Anne Strainchamps about her book and her relationship with Jack Kerouac.
Nora Guthrie is folk singer Woody Guthrie’s daughter and runs the Woody Guthrie Archives. Elizabeth Partridge is the author of “This Land Was Made for You and Me,” Guthrie’s biography.
Video game designer Jason Rohrer tells Anne Strainchamps about his game "Passage," which is about mortality, not just an adrenalin rush.
Kendall Taylor is the author of the most complete account yet of the marriage of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. Taylor tells Steve Paulson that the marriage was volatile from the beginning.
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