John Callahan is a C5-6 quadriplegic. With only limited arm movement, he’s become a successful cartoonist. Callahan explains why he doesn’t shy away from outrageous cartoons.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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John Updike talks with Steve Paulson about the business of being interviewed. Updike is skittish about giving interviews, but often finds himself saying more than he’d planned once he gets going.
Musharraf Ali Farooqi is the translator of "The Adventures of Amir Hamza" and "Hoshruba."
Writer and activist Linda Tirado has lived a lot of shabby apartments over the years. She's dealt with greedy landlords, flooded apartments and bug infestations. As she writes in her memoir "Hand To Mouth: Living In Bootstrap America," substandard housing is just a fact of life when you're part of the working poor in America.
Neil Gaiman creates mythic fictional worlds. He tells Anne Strainchamps how our lives are shaped and scarred by childhood experiences.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day has us thinking about America's Great Migration -- the epic struggle for freedom that saw six million people migrate north from the southern states before the civil rights era. So we're revisiting Steve Paulson's conversation with Isabel Wilkerson re. her book, "The Warmth of Other Suns."
Documentary film-maker Errol Morris has made a film called "Standard Operating Procedure" about the American soldiers at Abu Ghraib. Morris and journalist Philip Gourevitch have written a companion book.
Rob Walker writes the weekly column "Consumed," for the New York Times Magazine...
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