Peter Watson tells Steve Paulson that the history of ideas can be organized according to three really big ideas – the soul, Europe and the experiment.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Novelist Nicholson Baker exposed what he called libraries’ assault on paper in a book called “Double Fold.”
Lincoln Hall is an Australian mountain climber. He tells Jim Fleming about his fatal adventure on Mt. Everest, the subject of his book "Dead Lucky: Life after Death on Mount Everest."
Jonathan Nossiter directed a documentary film called "Mondovino" in which he talks with people all over the world who make and sell wine.
Once we’ve passed through hard times, it comes to picking up the pieces of our lives.
For Jonathan Cott - after 36 ECT sessions erased 15 years of his memory - that was a real challenge.
Best-selling author Jane Hamilton has the kind of success most novelists dream of. In her novel “Disobedience,” a teenage son discovers that his mom is cheating on his dad.
Writer Michael Pollan tells Steve Paulson that a lot of what's on supermarket shelves isn't food and that Americans have many options if they want to improve the quality of their diet.
Louis Colaianni thinks anyone can be taught to speak Shakespeare. He gives Anne Strainchamps a lesson using the introduction to “Romeo and Juliet.”
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