Hannah Palin lives in Seattle and works as a film archivist. Her mother is retired and lives in Washington, D.C.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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George Packer is a staff writer for the New Yorker and author of “The Assassins’ Gate.” He’s just back from his fifth trip to Iraq...
Greg Kot, rock critic for the Chicago Tribune and a regular contributor to Rolling Stone, talks about Tom Waits’ album “Nighthawks at the Diner.”
Brian Turner was an average young American who volunteered for military service in Iraq. At night he wrote poetry by flashlight. When his tour ended, he collected his poems into a book called "Here, Bullet." This one is called "A Night in Blue."
Gay Talese writes literary journalism. He's a master of in-depth profiles, telling his story through detailed scenes.
How does what you believe affect how you die? Watch as a historian, a psychologist and a sociologist talk about how people around the world confront their mortality.
George Dyson grew up in the backyard of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where some of the most brilliant engineers and mathematicians in the world (including his parents) were building one of the first computers. His new book, "Turing's Cathedral", is the story of their quest to build a working computer.
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