Novelist Wesley Stace (AKA musician John Wesley Harding) tells Jim what the original novel, "Tristram Shandy," is all about.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Stephen Batchelor wants contemporary Buddhists to re-think the life of the Buddha.
British comedian Ross Noble hosts a show for the BBC. The premise is to go to remote places in the world and try to do stand-up.
Journalist William Claassen calls himself a nomadic pilgrim. He spent many years traveling to cloistered communities from various religious traditions around the world.
Music writer Peter Guralnick tells us how the legendary Sam Phillips created rock and roll as a musical protest.
Steve Paulson profiles savage literary critic Dale Peck. A collection of Peck’s reviews is called “Hatchet Jobs.”
As the daughter of a child psychologist, writer Jessica Lamb-Shapiro grew weary of the simple solutions offered by popular self-help books. So maybe it was only natural that she wanted to understand why people liked them so much. To find out, she read hundreds of books and articles, journeyed to conferences headed by self-improvement icons, and even conquered her fear of flying along the way.
Music critic Yuval Taylor tells Steve Paulson that authenticity in music is a complicated business.
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