Pulitzer prize-winning poet Gary Snyder reflects on what it means to be a Buddhist animist, his Zen training in Japan, the meaning of gratitude, and the importance of exploring "the wild areas of the mind."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Ghita Schwarz wrote about "A Case of Boredom" for the February issue of "The Believer" magazine.
Hank Klibanoff and Gene Roberts are the co-authors of "The Race Beat: The Press, The Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation."
Jim Fleming sits down with Nicholson Baker to discuss "House of Holes: A Book of Raunch". This is a raw and unedited interview.
Actor and producer George Bartenieff put together and performs a one man play called "I Will Bear Witness" based on the diaries of Victor Klemperer, a Jew who survived the Third Reich.
Historian and author Graham Robb tells Steve Paulson that there was a great deal of tolerance for homosexuals in the 19th century, as long as they were discreet.
In the early 20th century, as visual artists started experimenting with abstraction and surrealism, musicians were experimenting too. But why, nearly 100 years later, are the works of Modern visual artists more popular than Avant Garde music?
Gershom Gorenberg talks with Steve Paulson about the site that the Jews call the Temple Mount which the Muslims revere as Al-Aqsa.
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