John Cheever wrote hundreds of short stories and kept an extensive private journal, fabricated his accent and was primarily gay despite siring three children and remaining in a long marriage. We hear about his life from Blake Bailey, who wrote a biography on the great author.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Ericka Kreutz and Robert Quinlan from the Madison Repertory Theatre production of David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, "Proof,” talk with Anne Strainchamps, and perform excerpts from the play.
Charles Siebert provides a version of an essay he wrote for the New York Times Magazine about the ironies of the human longing to keep wild creatures close to us.
Megabyte, terabyte, gigabyte... web-watcher David Siegel says the web's just too data heavy. The answer is to stop duplicating and make all that data - particularly our personal data - more meaningful.
Daniel Pink talks about the day he almost threw up on Al Gore, and gives examples of the new ways people are finding to work.
Stephanie Elkins had never heard of ASMR when we started looking for people who experience the tingles and euphoria that people are calling autonomous sensory meridian response.
She wondered just what ASMR might be, and what triggers would give her the tingles.
Philosopher Samuel Scheffler bookmarks "The Children of Men" by P.D. James.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Pir Zubair Shah risked his life to report from Waziristan -- a Taliban stronghold in northwest Pakistan -- where he was detained by both the Taliban and government forces. He spoke to Jim Fleming about the dangers of reporting from that region of Pakistan.
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