Natalie Goldberg talks about the process of writing a memoir and tells Anne Strainchamps why it is her favorite genre.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jill Lepore does a reality check on Tea Party claims to the founding fathers.
Michael Shapiro, author of “The Last Good Season: Brooklyn, the Dodgers, and Their Final Pennant Race Together” tells Jim Fleming why baseball in Brooklyn was special.
Kevin Young is a blues poet. His new collection is called “Jelly Roll: A Blues.” Young talks about what makes a blues poem and gives him a couple of examples.
Nick Bostrom is a philosopher at Yale. In his paper “The Simulation Argument,” he makes the case that life as we know it may be a computer simulation being run by our descendants.
How do young people in Burma use karaoke as a form of political protest?
Margaret Atwood says it's a mistake to think about debt as simply a matter of money. Debt is embedded in our psyche and rife in our literary and religious history.
Writer Peter Mayle tells Steve Paulson about growing French wine, and drinking rather a lot of it.
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