We've got theme parks on the brain so we're revisiting Steve's conversation with Karen Russell re. her novel, "Swamplandia!," which is set in a gator wrestling theme park.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Neil Steinberg tells Jim Fleming, among other things, why AA seems to work, even when you intellectually reject its basic premises.
Celebrated children's author Maurice Sendak talks with Steve Paulson about one of his collections.
Mike Daisey is the playwright and star of the off-Broadway 1-man-show called “21 Dog Years: Doing Time @ Amazon Dot Com.”
Jason Pfaff wants to eat in every single Denny’s. He’s made it to a few hundred so far.
Anthropologist Jeremy Narby went to the Peruvian Amazon to study the Ashaninca Indians. The experience transformed his outlook on life, especially once he tried their powerful hallucinogen ayahuasca.
Laila Lalami tells Jim Fleming that Muslim women are trapped between two competing world views, neither of which knows how to help them or asks them what they want for themselves.
Jan Louter is a Dutch film director. The PBS series Independent Lens just aired his piece “A Sad Flower in the Sand” about novelist John Fante. Fante wrote a 1939 novel called “Ask the Dust” ...
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