The relationship between poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge is discussed by Steve Paulson and Adam Sisman.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Journalist and educator Thomas Kunkel recommends "Here Is New York" by E.B. White.
Sharon Lovejoy tells Anne Strainchamps about sunflower houses, the giant’s garden, and why she sends kids into the garden with stethoscopes.
Wally Williams is Chief Executive Officer of Tequila Mockingbird and Sound Design in Austin, Texas, a successful commercial production facility.
Why do we have such an appetite for adventure? And why do many artists seem to spend so much time on the road? Those questions inspired philosopher Alain de Botton's book called "The Art of Travel."
Filmmaker Marina Lutz had little privacy growing up, Her father captured every piece of her life, from the mundane to the intimate, on film. Later, she rediscovered the footage and assembled it into her award-winning documentary “The Marina Experiment."
How should we decide when to stop life-prolonging treatments for people with severe brain damage and terminal illness? Are live organ donors always out of the question? As medicine makes it possible for us to prolong life, when should we just let - or help - someone die?
Saadi Simawe spent six years in an Iraqi prison for publishing verse opposed to Saddam Husssein’s Bath party. Now he’s an exile and teaches at Grinnell College in Iowa.
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