Singer/songwriter Lisa Germano played violin for rock artist John Mellencamp. Her own album, “Geek the Girl” contains a song, “The Psychopath,” based on her experiences with an obsessed fan.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jerry Apps is a rural historian and chronicler of country life. His book "Old Farm" is a kind of deep history of his land in Wisconsin.
Lucy Kaylin tells Steve Paulson that the average age of American nuns is seventy, and that many orders are folding.
Classical pianist Leon Fleisher was sidelined for many years by a medical condition that crippled his right hand.
Richard Price has a hit with his novel "Lush Life." It's a crime story, but Price says his book has nothing to do with detective fiction or any other genre.
Open relationships are no vestige of the swinging seventies. Although we don't know how many people have opened up, sex-educator Tristan Taormino says that you probably know someone in an open relationships, you just might not know that you know.
Taormino tells Steve Paulson that there are myriad manifestations of "open..."
Drive-in movie critic Joe Bob Briggs is the author of "Profoundly Disturbing: Shocking Movies That Changed History."
Former TTBOOK producer and interviewer Judith Strasser talks with Jim Fleming about the details of deciding what to leave out of an intimate memoir.
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