Laura Blumenfeld wrote a book called “Revenge: A Story of Hope.” It recounts how she went to Jerusalem and sought out the family of the Palestinian man who shot her tourist father.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Listen to some of the voices from the Occupy Wall Street protest at 60 Wall Street in New York.
Are we ever good enough, or are we doomed to self-optimization for our entire lives?
Merge is a quartet that combines poetry with jazz music. Cassandra Cleghorn and Erik Lawrence talk with Jim Fleming about their art and how much they have in common with the Beats.
Economist Juliet Schor co-founded The Center for a New American Dream. Among her many proposals to fix the economy: create more jobs by adopting a 30-hour work week and 3-day weekend.
Natalie Goldberg tells Jim Fleming that people who want to become writers should just write, and find themselves a writing mentor.
Jim Divita tells Jim Fleming about the dystopian society he's created and why he's afraid that something like it could happen to our world.
This week, we're remembering the British mystery writer P.D. James, who died recently at the age of 94. James wrote some of the most widely admired literary crime fiction of the last century, and was the creator of one of the most beloved fictional detectives, Scotland Yard investigator Adam Dalgliesh. Steve Paulson spoke with P.D. James about her life of writing crime fiction in 2000.
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