An EXTENDED interview with linguist Geoffrey Nunberg on "assholes."
Harriet Brown reads an essay describing her experience discovering her daughter had anorexia.
George Saunders talks about his new short-story collection, "Tenth of December."
A Prairie Home Companion's Garrison Keillor talks with Steve Paulson about being a mid-Western writer and moving to New York City.
Naturalist Gretel Ehrlich tells Steve Paulson why she visited at length with Inuit people in Greenland.
Gioia Timpanelli uses her poetic sensibility to write prose novels.
Geneva Handy Southall tells Jim Fleming about Blind Tom, a nineteenth century American prodigy who could reproduce any sound he heard.
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht states Immanuel Kant's concept of Beauty is useful when applied to the world of sports, and that such Beauty approaches the sacred.