James Houston is the author of “Snow Mountain Passage: A Novel of the Donner Party.” He tells Jim Fleming about his personal connection to the infamous group.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Ilana Harlow talks with Anne Strainchamps about the remarkable creativity people show when it comes to memorializing their dead.
Jack Pendarvis reads from his essay "The Fifty Greatest Things That Just Popped Into My Head," published in "The Believer" magazine.
Captain James Yee volunteered after 9/11 to be the US Army Muslim Chaplain at Guantanamo Bay prison. But then he was accused of spying, espionage, and aiding the alleged Taliban and Al-Qaeda prisoners at Guantanamo. He was held in solitary confinement for 76 days.
Australian filmmaker and prankster John Safran talks about his trip to Mississippi to investigate the murder of a white national named Richard Barrett by a young black man named Vincent McGee.
James Frey is the author of “A Million Little Pieces,” a harrowing memoir of his time at an alcohol and drug treatment facility.
Booker Prize winner Ian McEwan's novels include “Atonement,” “Amsterdam” and “Enduring Love.” McEwan describes and reads from several of his books.
Jack Abramoff. He’s hardly a murderer. But to many in the Beltline, he’s the devil incarnate.
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