Mark Barrowcliffe wasted his youth playing Dungeons and Dragons. Now he's turned his obsession into a book.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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About a year ago, independent producer Karen Michel moved from Brooklyn to Pleasant Valley, New York, near the Hudson River. She prepared this piece as a way of getting to know her new neighbors
The scientific genius Kurt Godel is on our minds this week. So Anne Strainchamps talks with the French writer, Yannick Grannec, about her novel, "The Goddess of Small Things," which is based on Godel's relationship with his wife, Adele.
Alex Abramovich recommends "Blues People: Negro Music in White America" by Leroi Jones, who later changed his name to Amiri Baraka.
John Pollack collected well over a hundred thousand wine corks and used them to build a replica of a Viking ship which he then sailed in Portugal.
Nicholas Gage tells Jim Fleming about the long love affair between Maria Callas and Aristotle Onassis.
Mukoma Wa Ngugi is a poet and English professor who writes crime novels set in his native Kenya. He says the crime genre lets him write truthfully about race, class and violence in cities like Nairobi.
Jack Abramoff. He’s hardly a murderer. But to many in the Beltline, he’s the devil incarnate.
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