Nevada Barr has written 15 mystery novels featuring Park Ranger Anna Pigeon.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Lydia Millet tells Steve Paulson that she lives in the middle of a national park outside Tucson, Arizona, and is always mindful that she is encroaching on the space of the wild creatures when she drives her car.
Journalist Malcolm Gladwell talks to Steve Paulson about how the words from one of his stories for "The New Yorker" ended up on Broadway and how this made him change his attitude about plagiarism.
Jeremy Campbell tells Steve Paulson about the ways Mother Nature uses deception to fool predators, and talks about Bill Clinton and the balance of the public good and personal morality.
Karen Joy Fowler won the PEN/Faulkner Award for best fiction for her novel "We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves." Based on a true story, it’s the remarkable tale of two girls raised as sisters, until one is removed from the family. The twist is that one sister is a chimpanzee.
Richard Manning is the author of many books including “Food’s Frontier: The Next Green Revolution.” Among the scientists profiled in that book is Robert Goodman, a plant pathologist at the University of Wisconsin.
Autism's a tricky diagnosis. And its causes - and increasingly frequent diagnosis - are also mysterious. In this NEW and EXTENDED interview, Martha Herbert talks with Anne Strainchamps about unpacking autism.
Marjorie Garber is one of the world's premier Shakespeare scholars and teaches at Harvard. Her latest book is "On Shakespeare and Modern Culture."
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