E. Fuller Torrey is a research psychiatrist who believes there has been a five fold increase in the incidence of insanity in the last 250 years, and that some infectious agent is to blame.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Christopher Moore talks with Steve Paulson about the world’s most untranslatable words.
David Hughes tells Jim Fleming some of the reasons why a script might never get made into a film.
Poor, broke and white. Country musician Brandy Clark's been there, but she made it out. She’s 40 years old and won the country music awards’ Song of the Year and was also nominated for best new artist. Charles Monroe-Kane caught up with Brandy, along with her guitar player and backup singer Miles Aubrey, in a studio in Nashville, to talk about her latest album, Big Day in a Small Town.
Colin Thubron tells Jim Fleming why Siberians are drawn to the old Orthodox religion, and recalls his visit with an old man who may be Siberia's last remaining shaman.
Long before the Occupy movement made headlines, writer Dean Bakopoulos foreshadowed it in a darkly comic novel called My American Unhappiness.
Brendan Halpin tells Steve Paulson about his early days as a teacher and why he stuck it out for several years.
John Safran says we need writers who are outsiders. Otherwise, groups will keep hiding their secrets.
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