Provocative scholar and literary critic Stanley Fish tells Steve Paulson that he admires the bluntness and strength of conviction shown in the writing of John Milton.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
Audio
Sherman Alexie has written novels, film screenplays and a short story collection. He talks with Steve Paulson about being a Native American writer.
Lani Leary has worked with thousands of dying people and their families. She’s been at the bedside of more than 500 people at the moment of death. Her dedication to working with the dying and bereaved goes back to the painful experience of her own mother’s death when she was a child, when her family told her nothing about how her mother died.
A growing number of secular scientists and philosophers are rejecting the term "atheist" in favor of a definition that acknowledges the wonder and mystery of the world around us.
First it was farm-to-table, now the latest wave in food is wild. Hunter, angler, gardener and cook Hank Shaw is part of shaping the return to wild foods. In this EXTENDED interview with Sara Nics, he talks deep fried duck tongues and why wild food tastes better.
Poet Christian Wiman says being diagnosed with cancer - and falling in love - spurred him to write.
In this conversation with Jim Fleming, he reads poems throbbing with life, and talks about finding future.
Salman Rushdie lives in New York. The day before the terrorist attack, he talked with Steve Paulson about his new book, “Fury.”
City planner and urban historian Tom Martinson tells Steve Paulson why the suburbs are a great place to live.
Pages
