Why are we so obsessed with finding someone who completes us? What if we're already complete? That's what Michael Cobb wonders. In his book "Single" he argues that it's time to take the pressure off couples and look at other ways of living.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich says that Colonial American women showed their patriotism by learning how to weave. Making homespun meant they weren’t buying English cloth.
Steve Roggenbuck’s no traditional poet. Sure, he writes, but he’s built a following by posting videos of himself to Youtube. And his latest book is subtitled, "poems and selfies."
Ginger Strand, the author of The Brothers Vonnegut, has a dangerous idea. She thinks liberals need to go out and buy a gun!
Richard Zacks, author of “The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd,” tells Jim Fleming that Kidd, was a privateer - a pirate hunter - not a pirate.
Naturalist and environmental activist Janisse Ray talks with Jim Fleming about her memoir, "Ecology of A Cracker Childhood." Ray now devotes herself to long leaf pine restoration.
"The Passage" has been described as "an engrossingly horrific account of a post-apocalyptic America." The author says the idea came out of a discussion with his nine-year-old daughter.
Near-death researcher Dr. Raymond Moody looks back on his career investigating near-death experiences.
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