August is Ghost Month in Taiwan—a time to commemorate the dead: burn incense, visit shrines, honor ancestors, and avoid large purchases. It's also the setting for Ed Lin's newest mystery. Lin is a 3-time winner of the Asian-American Literary Award.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Producer Rehman Tungekar talks with Anne Strainchamps about growing up in a multi-ethnic family.
Parker Palmer tells Jim Fleming why the soul still matters in an age of science.
Charles Yu on quantum parenting, time travel and other science fictional paradoxes. Yu is the author of the acclaimed novel "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe."
Singer and pianist Marcia Ball talks about the various kinds of Blues and how they differ from what she usually plays.
Novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux tells Steve Paulson about the time he was held captive in Africa.
Peter Yellowlees is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Queensland in Australia. His lab has built a device that recreates the aural and visual hallucinations typical of schizophrenia.
Katharine Rogers tells Jim Fleming that there’s a lot more to Oz than the Wizard, and that Baum always loved the theater and would have been thrilled by the Judy Garland movie.
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