Ron Chernow's recently published "George Washington: a life" logs in at 900 pages, one of the most acclaimed historical biographies of the past year.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Helen Turrner is the "Queen of Barbecue," the owner and pitmaster of Helen's Bar-B-Q in Brownsville, Tennessee. She's one of the few women pitmasters.
Trevor Paglan is the author of "I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have To Be Destroyed By Me." That's the Latin translation of a patch designed for a top secret Navy air testing station.
Thebe Medupe is an astrophysicist and producer of the documentary film "Cosmic Africa." He tells Anne Strainchamps about spending time with the Kalahari Bushmen...
Psychologist Stanley Coren tells Jim Fleming how the modern dog developed and why they have such an important place in people's lives.
Steve Paulson reports on the tremendous influence and great power of the Pulitzer Prize winning Michiko Kakutani. She’s the provocative and controversial daily book reviewer for the New York Times.
Three members of The Actors' Gang, a theater group in Los Angeles, perform a scene from George Orwell's "1984" which the group recently staged, set in our own time.
Standup, prat falls, punch lines. Performing comedy's one thing, writing it's another.
Ian Frazier has been writing comedy for the New Yorker for decades. Catch him talking about the rewards of writing humor, and telling jokes in Russian.
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