Rachel Pastan reads from and talks with Steve Paulson about her novel "Lady of the Snakes." The book concerns a young professor of 19th century Russian literature confronted with combining her professional life and motherhood.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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John Huss is the co-editor, with David Werther, of "Johnny Cash and Philosophy: The Burning Ring of Truth." In the book, 21 philosophers muse about the music of Johnny Cash.
If you're worried about zombies every time you step outside, Max Brooks is your man.
Jonah Lehrer talks about his new book, "Imagine: How Creativity Works."
Charles Monroe-Kane prepared a profile of singer/songwriter Neko Case, a country singer who's haunted by the American Dream.
Jeremy Spear made a documentary film called “Fastpitch” about the world of professional fastpitch softball.
Robert Fischell developed several implantable medical devices credited with saving tens of thousands of lives on Earth.
Literary critics have deemed Laura van den Berg one of American's best new writers. Listen in as she talks about the roles of memory and forgetting in our lives, and in her debut novel, "Find Me."
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