Photographer Michael Nye made portraits of mentally ill and homeless people in San Antonio, where he lives, and also recorded their stories.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Phyllis Curott is a Wiccan high priestess or a practicing witch. She talks about what Wicca is all about and talks about casting spells for practical purposes.
In 2001, reporter Marja Mills met the celebrated and notoriously private author of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Harper Lee. The two struck up a friendship and, a few years after their first meeting, the two became neighbors. Mills writes about their friendship in her new memoir, “The Mockingbird Next Door.”
Canadian journalist Naomi Klein, author of “No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Name Bullies,” talks about the day brand names were left for dead on Wall Street.
Martyn Stewart is one of audio engineers who went to Alaska in 2006 as part of the Arctic Soundscape Project to record the sounds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Miranda Carter is the author of the biography “Anthony Blunt.” She talks about how Blunt became involved in the Cambridge spy ring and why he decided not to defect to the Soviet Union.
Joe Nick Patoski has been writing about his friend Willie Nelson for thirty five years. He talks about Nelson's first claim to fame in Nashville was as a songwriter.
One Laptop Per Child seeks to change the world by giving laptops to kids in places too remote to have electricity.
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