You'll have to know the great expectations of Cornell students to be successful for this round of the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz!
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Keli Goff tells Steve Paulson that today's young Black voters don't look at politics through the lens of the Civil Rights Movement.
Maurice Sendak talks about growing up as a Jewish child in WWII New York.
Mikael Niemi is the author of “Popular Music from Vittula,” the single best-selling book in Swedish history.
Robert Ellis Orrall is a musician who lives in Nashville, on the same street where Al Gore bought a house. So he wrote a song about it!
Joan Didion, who died last week at the age of 87, helped shape a highly personal brand of nonfiction that came to be known as the New Journalism. Her early essay collections "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" (1968) and "The White Album" (1979) influenced generations of writers. Her later memoirs, "The Year of Magical Thinking" and "Blue Nights," chronicled the deaths of her husband and daughter. In 2011 Didion talked with Steve Paulson about illness and growing old in the wake of the death of her daughter, Quintana.
Norman George wrote and stars in “Poe Alone” - a play set during the writer’s last public lecture.
Jason Hartley talks about his book, "The Advanced Genius Theory: Are They Out of Their Minds or Ahead of Their Time?"
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