Erin Clune brings us and her family to tour the garden of Izzy Fine and Mary Gray who've planted thousands of flowering bulbs on their property in Madison, Wisconsin. Their garden is so spectacular, all the neighbors drop by to wander around.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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David Shields talks with Anne Strainchamps about his book, which is a meditation on how our bodies decay and die, and his irrepressible father who is 97 and who doesn't give death the time of day.
Bill Hayes is the author of “Five Quarts: A Personal and Natural History of Blood.” Hayes tells Jim Fleming several nifty facts about the fluid that sustains us all.
Derick Burleson won the Felix Pollack Prize for his collection of poems about Rwanda, called "Ejo."
Why do certain foods fall out of favor? Aaron Bobrow-Strain tracked the rise and fall of white bread for a book on the subject. He believes our anxieties about food often reflect larger social questions.
Ryan DeCurtidor brings us this story of a couple breaking up during a mass exodus from Earth.
David Abram is an ecologist, anthropologist and philosopher, and author of "Becoming Animal."
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