Ellen Handler Spitz is the author of many books on psychology and aesthetics. She talks with Jim Fleming about her latest - "The Brightening Glance: Imagination and Childhood."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Ecstatic dance can help us transcend our day-to-day lives. TTBOOK producer Sara Nics describes her own experience of ecstatic dance - grounded in her body, feeling bliss without invoking God or any larger meaning.
Dame Evelyn Glennie is an award winning solo percussionist and composer who performs with the great orchestras and popular artists. She's also deaf. She talks with Steve Paulson about touching sound.
Carlos Eire has written a memoir about the Cuba he remembers. Castro came to power when Carlos was eight. Eire tells Jim Fleming about his childhood in Cuba and after he was air-lifted to the U.S. His memoir is called “Waiting for Snow in Havana.”
Avital Ronell has been called “the foremost thinker of the repressed conditions of knowledge.” She gives Jim Fleming an inspired take on stupidity.
Novelist Michel Faber recommends one of his favorite books: "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater," by Kurt Vonnegut.
Charles Siebert provides a version of an essay he wrote for the New York Times Magazine about the ironies of the human longing to keep wild creatures close to us.
Why has the story of Abraham and Isaac inspired generations of religious martyrs? Bruce Chilton tells us why.
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