Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the godfathers of Latin American fiction. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010. He also once ran for president of his native country, Peru. Politics and literature are the driving forces in his life.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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James McBride won the National Book Award for "The Good Lord Bird," his novel about the abolitionist John Brown. He explains why he doesn't like most fictional portraits of slavery and how he tried to tell a different story.
We explore the fine art of creative collaboration and start with the music of John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
Lendol Calder says being in debt is a good thing. He tells Steve Paulson that consumer credit drives the world economy.
Robert Laughlin says that the internet is full of information, but it may not be anything you want.
Karen Armstrong talks with Anne Strainchamps about her tangled path back to God after leaving the convent.
Environmentalist Bill McKibben believes it's time for a new environmental paradigm: small and local.
Jason Reitman wrote and directed the film "Thank You for Smoking." We hear some very funny and totally subversive clips.
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