Helen DeWitt tells Anne Strainchamps about her novel, "Lightning Rods," which focuses on a bizarre solution to sexual harrassment in the workplace.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Ann Marlow had a successful career on Wall Street – and simultaneously, a heroin habit. She never resorted to selling drugs or her body. She never hit rock bottom. After ten years, she decided to quit– and never went back. The antithesis of the junkie stereotype.
Can you know a culture if you don’t speak the language?
In this cross- inter- multi- cultural age, we’re surveying the map of global culture, attempting to see what’s lost – or made new – in translation.
Our friends at The State We're In from Radio Netherlands kick us off with an attempted translation of "gezellig!"
Gary Mitchell is a Vietnam vet who's struggled with PTSD for some 40 years. He was a sniper and assigned to carry out planned assassinations.
Hal Taussig thought it was time to discuss what books should be in the New Testament, so he organized discussions with a council of advisors. They've come up with a volume that has what everybody knows, and quite a lot most people don't. In this UNCUT interview with Jim Fleming Hal Taussig describes some of the 10 books they've added and why.
Have you ever had something happen to you that's SO embarrassing.... you wish could forget it? Well, listen to these truly humiliating stories.
Grace Tiffany’s new novel is called “Will.” She talks about the Will Shakespeare in her mind with Anne Strainchamps.
Geoffrey O’Brien grew up in a musical family. He says that the advent of recording changed our relationship to music - it made the past permanent.
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