Mark Moskowitz made a film called “The Stone Reader” about his search for Dow Mossman, the author of a rapturously reviewed 1972 novel called “The Stones of Summer.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Lera Auerbach's obsession with time has impacted her life in music. We hear examples of her literary and musical achievements.
Steve Paulson talks with Jerry Huffman, a reporter and anchor for Wisconsin Public Television, about the best recent books that try to make sense of the Post Cold War World.
James McBride won the National Book Award for "The Good Lord Bird," his novel about the abolitionist John Brown. He explains why he doesn't like most fictional portraits of slavery and how he tried to tell a different story.
MP3 formatting compresses audio so that the file becomes 75 to 95 percent smaller. But what are we missing?
Novelist Jane Hamilton talks with Steve Paulson about the role of nostalgia in literary fiction.
Environmentalist Bill McKibben believes it's time for a new environmental paradigm: small and local.
Richard Nelson hikes through the Alaskan wilderness recording sounds you can't hear anywhere else, and he plays excerpts during this conversation with Anne Strainchamps.
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