Steve Paulson spoke with Kurt Vonnegut just after his 83rd birthday, and Vonnegut recalled his experiences during the fire-bombing of Dresden.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Richard Schweid loves eels. He tells Steve Paulson that scientists know very little about their life cycle, but that their numbers seem to be declining.
Meir Shalev tells Jim Fleming that he thinks the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian problem reached at the conclusion of that war was a just one and that the parties should return to the 1948 agreement.
Katy Lederer is a poet who used to manage a hedge fund. Her latest book is "The Heaven-Sent Leaf." She reads from it and talks about her work with Anne Strainchamps.
Classical pianist Leon Fleisher tells Jim Fleming about the neurological disorder that crippled his right hand for over thirty years and what it meant for his musicianship.
Historian Michael Oren talks with Steve Paulson about how the Barbary Pirates brought the Marines to the shores of Tripoli and why they went into the Middle East six times during the 19th century.
Robert Neuwirth tells Steve Paulson about the process by which people acquire and improve dwellings in the world's cities even when they don't own land.
Novelist Jennifer Egan talks with Jim Fleming about the middle eastern terrorist at the heart of her novel “Look at Me,” and how she reacted to the events of September 11th.
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