Daniel Cere tells Steve Paulson that the marriage bond is unique and enjoys a primordial power.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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If you had to pick one writer, one poet, who has persistently reminded us of the connection between inner and outer landscapes it would be Terry Tempest Williams. She's advocated again and again for the preservation of wild places and the importance of national wilderness through books like “Refuge,” “Desert Quartet,” “Finding Beauty in a Broken World” and “When Women Were Birds.” She'll soon be releasing a new book -- “The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks.”
Editor Chris Kubica talks about his project, “Letters to J.D. Salinger.” Kubica asked dozens of authors to sound off to Salinger by writing him letters - even if Salinger will never read them.
How do composers and performers play with our expectations to keep the brain interested in music?
Poet Edward Hirsch bookmarks Alice Oswald's "Memorial: A Version of Homer's Iliad."
Cultural critic Cintra Wilson thinks American’s fascination with fame is a grotesque, crippling disease. She tears into it in her book “A Massive Swelling.”
David Cantwell and Bill Friskics-Warren are the co-authors of “Heartaches by the number: Country Music’s 500 Greatest Singles.”
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