John Waters recommends the 1968 Elizabeth Taylor/Richard Burton film, "Boom!"
John Waters recommends the 1968 Elizabeth Taylor/Richard Burton film, "Boom!"
Charles Harper Webb is the author of a poetry collection called “Hot Popsicles.” He talks about the use of pop culture imagery in his work.
Social critic Bill McKibben says we’re rushing through a momentous doorway into a new age of human evolution
Public radio storyteller David Sedaris is often called America’s preeminent humorist. He recently stopped by our studio before a sold-out performance in Madison and talked with Steve Paulson about how he got started as a writer, the differences between writing and performing on stage, the...
Our final interview in today’s show has nothing to do with collecting – unless you consider winning two presidential campaigns a collection of two wins. David Axelrod was the chief strategist for Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns and recently stopped by our studio to talk about the art of running for office.
Derek Bickerton has spent more than 30 years researching Creole languages on four continents for his book, "Bastard Tongues: A Trailblazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World's Lowliest Languages."
Chrisoula Andreou is a philosopher at the University of Utah who also contributed an essay to "The Thief of Time: Philosophical Essays on Procrastination"...