Journalist Jean Zimmerman says that Americans are in the process of throwing away centuries of domestic skills and traditions.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Mark Haddon is the author of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.” Haddon narrates the story from the point of view of his hero, who is a fifteen year old boy with Asperger Syndrome.
Poet Anja Sieger, who often writes under the pen name Notanja, is the current Narrator-in-Residence at the storied Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee. Her writing implement of choice? A vintage typewriter.Hear the interview as well as the bonus reading of a poem that she wrote on-site for producer Seth Jovaag's daughter, Lydia.
Anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann's Dangerous Idea? To be better adjusted, change the way you think about thinking.
Paul Feig is the creator of the critically acclaimed TV series “Freaks and Geeks.” He says that the show (which is no longer on the air) was based on his real-life adolescence.
Jill Fredston tells Jim Fleming how avalanches happen. She says it has everything to do with the terrain and the condition of the snowpack.
Novelist Nicholson Baker exposed what he called libraries’ assault on paper in a book called “Double Fold.”
Michael Reilly recorded an extraordinary CD called "Como Now: The Voices of Panola County, Mississippi."
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