Cary Sudler is descended from a slave-holding plantation family. He discovered that he shares the Sudler name with both black and white families in the area around the old plantation.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Christopher Byron tells Anne Strainchamps that the Martha Stewart public image is consistent and ubiquitous but has little to do with the real Martha Stewart.
Ecstatic dance can help us transcend our day-to-day lives. TTBOOK producer Sara Nics describes her own experience of ecstatic dance - grounded in her body, feeling bliss without invoking God or any larger meaning.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie splits her time between the U.S. and her native Nigeria...
Poet Fleda Brown reads her poem "For My Daughter's 40th Birthday."
Betool Khedairi grew up in Iraq with an Iraqi father and a Scottish mother.
Poet and translator Coleman Barks talks with Anne Strainchamps about the 13th century Sufi mystic and poet, Rumi.
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