A ghost story from listener Eric Van Vleet.
Can you learn to be more creative? You can if you go to Lynda Barry's workshop on "writing the unthinkable."
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Inspired by stories of police brutality and the Rodney King beating, civil rights attorney Connie Rice says she declared "war" on the LAPD in the 1990s. These days, she trains and supervises 50 officers in one of Los Angeles' toughest communities.
Julian Rubinstein tells the story of Attila Ambrus, the man who escaped Romania for Hungary and became the Robin Hood of Eastern Europe.
No book has won more raves this year than Katherine Boo’s nonfiction portrait of a Mumbai slum, "Behind the Beautiful Forevers".
Cultural Critic Richard Todd looked at modern life and saw others telling what is and isn't real.