Keith Donohue's novel is "The Stolen Child." He tells Jim Fleming the book's about a boy who's stolen by fairies and the boy who replaces him in the human world.
Keith Donohue's novel is "The Stolen Child." He tells Jim Fleming the book's about a boy who's stolen by fairies and the boy who replaces him in the human world.
Cosmology is on our minds, with the remarkable new discovery confirming the Big Bang. To get a better sense of what it all means – and how creation stories like the Big Bang have shaped our sense of ourselves – Steve Paulson turned to Adam Frank, an astrophysicist who writes for NPR’s science blog 13.7. He’s the author of the book “About Time: Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang.”
With so much curriculum to get through in school - should we still be teaching handwriting? Kitty Burns Florey says - yes!
Music journalist Rob Sheffield has a new book out remembering his fascination with Duran Duran.
He recently produced a set of CDs for the BBC that include rare recordings of the prominent writers.
Patricia Smith is an African American who's the four-time champion of the National Poetry Slam.
Marilyn Johnson talks about how librarians are emerging as heroes of the digital age because of their love for the written word, free speech and open access.
Lee Ernst has played John Barrymore several times in a play about the actor by William Luce.