Celebrated children's author Maurice Sendak talks with Steve Paulson about one of his collections.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Peter Carey's novel "True History of The Kelly Gang" has been described as "a spectacular feat of literary ventriloquism." Carey tells Steve Paulson that's because he wrote the book in another voice.
Jason Pfaff wants to eat in every single Denny’s. He’s made it to a few hundred so far.
Want to sum up a parent’s job in one word? It might be “giving”. Here’s commentator Marion Winik on teaching her youngest child to be giving too.
A recent study of DNA from Neanderthal bones changed everything we thought we knew.
Robert Laughlin tells Steve Paulson that physicists are an eccentric bunch. He should know.
Pir Zubair Shah is a Pakistani journalist who risked his life reporting for the New York Times from his homeland -- Waziristan, in the heart of Taliban-controlled Pashtun area. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his work, but had to leave his country.
Anthropologist Jeremy Narby went to the Peruvian Amazon to study the Ashaninca Indians. The experience transformed his outlook on life, especially once he tried their powerful hallucinogen ayahuasca.
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