Luis Alberto Urrea tells Jim Fleming about the business of smuggling illegal aliens across the Arizona desert and the tremendous mortality rate of this dangerous passage.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Merian C. Cooper dreamed up the original "King Kong." Cooper was an Indiana Jones - type figure himself.
Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball tell Steve Paulson what makes a lyric work and that many of the great songs came from Broadway and Hollywood musicals.
Open relationships are no vestige of the swinging seventies. Although we don't know how many people have opened up, sex-educator Tristan Taormino says that you probably know someone in an open relationships, you just might not know that you know.
Taormino tells Steve Paulson that there are myriad manifestations of "open..."
What's it like to win a MacArthur "genius" award? Fiction writer Karen Rusell tells Anne Strainchamps about the day she heard the news, and talks about her special blend of fantasy and realism in her short stories.
Peter Carey's novel "True History of The Kelly Gang" has been described as "a spectacular feat of literary ventriloquism." Carey tells Steve Paulson that's because he wrote the book in another voice.
Odessa Piper is the chef and proprietor of L’Etoile Restaurant in Madison, Wisconsin and a champion of cuisine prepared from locally available food.
What will extraterrestrial life look like? Paul Davies thinks it might be stranger than you can imagine.
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