Thomas Hardy's biographer tells Steve Paulson how his wife's death transformed the rest of Hardy's life.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Novelist Ben Cheever, son of John Cheever, talks with Jim Fleming about the price of fame and remembers the way people treated him because of his famous father.
Jon Ronson believes capitalism favors psychopaths and is creating more of them.
Bjorn Turmann was born and raised in Vancouver, but has lived in Asia since 1993 ...
Daniel Kalder is from Scotland, but lived in Russia for several years and discovered that at heart he's an anti-tourist.
David Brooks tells Steve Paulson the old ways of schools need to change.
Erin Clune brings us and her family to tour the garden of Izzy Fine and Mary Gray who've planted thousands of flowering bulbs on their property in Madison, Wisconsin. Their garden is so spectacular, all the neighbors drop by to wander around.
Karen Armstrong is the author of nearly 20 books on religion. She tells Steve Paulson that traditions from Confucianism to Judaism emerged as responses to the rampant violence of their time. And she says our own time has a lot in common with that age.
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