Ginger Strand talks about her book, "Killer on the Road: Violence and the American Interstate."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Nick Hitchon is one of the participants in Michael Apted's Seven Up series of documentaries that checks in on the lives of ordinary people every seven years.
Michael Streissguth met Johnny Cash and talks with Jim Fleming about the man and his music and what prompted him to compile his book.
Historian Jill Lepore talks with Jim Fleming about Noah Webster and his dictionary. She says Webster thought Americans should have their own language and he celebrated American words.
Jonathan Miller, who along with Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, and Alan Bennett, created “Beyond the Fringe,” talks about the nature of humor with Steve Paulson.
Anne Carson doesn't call her work poetry. She says the best description is poesis, Greek for "making." A classics scholar, Carson is a translator, essayist and prolific forger of new literary forms.
Moshin Hamid shares many characteristics with the central character of his novel, "The Reluctant Fundamentalist."
Journalist John Carlin talks with Steve Paulson about the 1995 rugby tournament that changed South Africa's history.
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