Mimi Sheraton, a travel writer, went to the Polish town of Bialystock to find the origins of her favorite bread from childhood, the bialy. It’s a crusty onion roll invented by the Jews.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Julian Barnes' novel "The Sense of an Ending" won the 2011 Man Booker Prize. Barnes talks with Steve Paulson about the complications of memory, aging and moral reckoning.
Physicist Janna Levin tells Steve Paulson why she wanted to write about mathematicians Alan Turing and Kurt Godel, and why her book is a novel.
Author of "Farm City" faces a drawback to her urban farm dream in Oakland, then called "the murder capital of the world."
Kieran Mulvany is the co-creator of a humorous website dedicated to Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, the outrageous Iraqi Information Minister. He says that troops in the desert and war planners at the Pentagon love the site.
Wisconsin Public Radio's Jim Fleming provides an essay about memory and his aging father.
Novelist Jennifer Egan talks with Jim Fleming about the middle eastern terrorist at the heart of her novel “Look at Me,” and how she reacted to the events of September 11th.
Robert Kaplan tells Jim Fleming that people had a lot of trouble accepting a mathematical symbol for the idea of nothing.
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