Wendy Burden is the author of "Dead End Gene Pool," a memoir of her childhood among wealthy but highly dysfunctional remnants of the Vanderbilt fortune.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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There’s been a pandemic or a nuclear war. Most of humanity is wiped out. Armed vigilantes steal your stuff and eat your family. The good news is, you can survive all this! If you have “the Knowledge.”
Studs Terkel has come out with a new book at the age of 93. It's a collection of interviews with some of his favorite musicians.
Scott Simon, host of NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday, and his wife have adopted two baby girls from China. Simon tells Anne Strainchamps why he and his wife are such fans of adoption.
Will Birch talks to Doug Gordon about the musical movement in Britain that set the stage for punk rock.
Tom Hayden, one of the founders of Students for a Democratic Society and later a State Assemblyman and Senator in California, talks with Steve Paulson.
T. Coraghessan Boyle talks with Steve Paulson about writing in response to hot button issues.
Signe Pike chucked her job at a NY publishing house to looking for fairies in Mexico and the British Isles.
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