Poet Laure-Anne Bosselaar edited an anthology of verse called “Urban Nature.” She talks about it with Jim Fleming and reads some of her favorites.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Novelist Jonathan Lethem's new book is called "You Don't Love Me Yet." It's the story of an alternative rock band in Los Angeles trying to find success and themselves.
Mark Lee was a war correspondent for the London Telegraph in East Africa. He barely made it back alive and has now written a novel called “Canal House.”
Have you had culture shock? Did it hit when you were travelling or when you were at home?
Writer Josh Swiller says, as a young man, he often felt outside his home culture.
He decided to leave the U.S. altogether and found a whole new world of challenging inter-cultural communication.
Liaquat Ahamed talks about the parallels between the recent financial meltdown and the events that led up to the Great Depression. Both situations involved bubbles, and errors by the Federal Reserve System.
Julie Norem is the author of “The Power of Negative Thinking.” She tells Jim Fleming about her strategy of “defensive pessimism,” and explains the good it can do.
Katherine Monk talks with Anne Strainchamps about Canadian cinema, and we hear examples from the work of Guy Maddin and Atom Egoyan.
This week we mourn the death of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Here's his English translator, Edith Grossman.
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