Eddie Lenihan is the author of “The Other Crowd,” a book about the tradition of fairies in Ireland. From his home in County Clare, he says that Irish fairies are violent and dangerous and that people believe in them still.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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The Silk Road was once the great meeting place between the East and the West - a network of ancient trading routes winding through China and India, across Central Asia and Iran to the Mediterranean.
Pop culture critic Camille Paglia talks with Anne Strainchamps about our obsession with makeovers and the human impulse to mythologize public figures.
Artist Natasha Nicholson makes contemporary cabinets of curiosity, but not simply to gaze at – they are her world. Nicholson lives inside her own art, highly curated rooms in an old storefront in Madison, Wisconsin.
Her solo show that reproduces her ENTIRE studio space is at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.
Charles Baxter and Richard Bausch are both successful American writers and good friends. They talk with Steve Paulson about the pitfalls and perils of doing book tours.
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."
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