Robert Marshall says that the late Carlos Castaneda was a literary trickster who invented most of the teachings of Don Juan which made him famous in the sixties.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Myhrvold talks about inventing and his six-volume, 2400-page, 52 pound cookbook called Modernist Cuisine.
Visionary computer scientist Jaron Lanier talks about his new book, "Who Owns the Future?"
The WPA built 650 thousand miles of highways and employed 8 and a half million people. We explore its legacy
This week we mourn the death of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Here's his English translator, Edith Grossman.
Margaret Atwood says it's a mistake to think about debt as simply a matter of money. Debt is embedded in our psyche and rife in our literary and religious history.
John Wenke traces the influence of “The Catcher in the Rye” on American culture from film to high profile crime.
Randy Olson is a Harvard-trained evolutionary biologist and creator of the documentary film "Flock of Dodos."
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