He talks about his new CD, "Sorry We're Open," and his future projects.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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We have a new Poet Laureate here in the U.S. Listen in as Natasha Trethewey talks about the history and memory embedded in her work.
You can hear more of Trethewey's poems here.
Julia Glass tells Steve Paulson that writing the book was her way of dealing with unendurable emotional trauma.
British novelist Nick Hornby has written a funny book about suicide. It's called "A Long Way Down."
Ernest Callenbach’s “Ecotopia” was the bible of a certain kind of environmental activist, back in the 70’s. Producer Charles Monroe-Kane was one of them. He tells us what it was like to try to live the dream.
Many women are choosing not to have children because they know they are not good enough at nurturing. Madelyn Cain thinks this is an admirable, unselfish decision and one that more and more couples will make in the future.
Michael Zweig tells Steve Paulson that a lot of Americans who think they're middle class are actually working class.
Patricia O'Conner tells Jim Fleming that what Americans think of as a British accent is a fairly recent development.
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