Jeff Ferrell gave up life as a tenured professor and became a dumpster diver. His new book is "Empire of Scrounge."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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What life experiences are behind her successful book?
Joelle Biele discusses the correspondences between poet Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker.
Margaret Atwood tells Steve Paulson that it's a mistake to think about debt as simply a matter of money.
Pamela Logan has been studying and practicing martial arts for twenty five years. She’s a fourth degree black belt in karate. And she’s the author of “Among Warriors.”
Kathleen Parker believes that popular culture portrays men as incompetent fools and classrooms ignore material of interest to boys. She says intelligent women need someone else to talk to, much less to marry and raise children with, so it's in women's interest to fix this.
Rick Perlstein is a historian who thinks the real story of the sixties is the rise of the modern conservative movement.
Steve Paulson introduces us to Mark Oliver Everett, better known as "E" - lead singer of the Eels, and son of Hugh Everett, the man who came up with the theory of parallel worlds.
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