Acclaimed cartoonist Alison Bechdel has written two brutally honest memoirs about her parents. She tells Steve Paulson about her complicated relationship with her mother and how it inspired her as an artist.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Historian Deborah Harkness has transmuted her expertise in early alchemy and Elizabethan magic into a pair of best-selling novels, A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night. We talk with her about the connections between magic and science.
To hear an EXTENDED interview with Deborah Harkness, LISTEN HERE.
Author Chuck Klosterman's Dangerous Idea? Laugh tracks are the most philosophically stupid thing. Ever.
We've interviewed Klosterman a number of times, here's a link to more interviews with him.
BookMark: Vikram Chandra reviews “The King Must Die” by Mary Renault.
Cheryl Jarvis talks about “The Marriage Sabbatical”: it’s a time one spouse can pursue an individual dream, while maintaining a commitment to the marriage.
More people than ever before in US history are living alone. And they're living lives of fullment and social engagement. Eric Klinenberg writes about the trend in "Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone."
For all the trend watching and forecasting, it has to be someone’s job to create the future… to come up with something truly new.
For decades, musician and producer Butch Vig has been doing just that. Vig says from the beginning, he wanted to make music that was different from what he was hearing in the mainstream.
The 13th century Sufi mystic is one of America’s bestselling poets, thanks largely to the translations of Coleman Barks. A Muslim born in Afghanistan, he celebrated the underlying unity of all religions
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