Take a quick trip through some classic songs of loneliness, from the Stanley Brothers, Roy Orbison and others, and we hear them all.
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Ecstatic dance can help us transcend our day-to-day lives. TTBOOK producer Sara Nics describes her own experience of ecstatic dance - grounded in her body, feeling bliss without invoking God or any larger meaning.
Some people used to complain that the movie didn't live up to the book. Now they're saying the movie doesn't live up to its sequel.
Emily Parker bookmarks Mario Vargas Llosa's "Conversation in the Cathedral."
Elizabeth Strout just won the Pulitzer Prize for her book "Olive Kitteridge." Marilynne Robinson's most recent novel, "Home," was a finalist for the National Book Award. Both women join Steve Paulson to discuss their works.
Daniel B. Smith tells Anne Strainchamps that both his father and grandfather heard voices, but led perfectly ordinary lives.
Fred Pearce tells Steve Paulson he went to over 30 countries and discovered people are simply taking too much water out of the world's river systems.
Eric Kandel has spent a lifetime studying the science of memory and picked up a Nobel Prize while he was at it.
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