Candacy Taylor talks about her book, "Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress."
Candacy Taylor talks about her book, "Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress."
Russ Forster is the editor of the magazine, “8-Track Mind”. Forster talks with Jim Fleming about his obsession with this outdated audio technology from the 70's.
The protest at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation has caught fire. Its camp is now larger than most small towns in North Dakota. The protest is not just about an oil pipeline from North Dakota to Illinois. It's about water. Journalist John Fleck, who's spent decades writing about water disputes in the West, tells Anne Strainchamps how the Standing Rock protest figures into this history.
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Susan Faludi writes about the effects of 9/11 on society, and especially on women.
Steve Almond tells Steve Paulson how his evolution as a writer began with a teenage obsession with Kurt Vonnegut. Though he hid that passion for years, he revealed it recently in his book "Not That You Asked."
Sarah Flannery talks about how her father taught her to excel at math by giving her puzzles and she gives a few examples. Sarah won the Young Scientist of the Year Award in Ireland and in Europe in 1999.
Ted Cowan tells Jim Fleming the real MacBeth was a good man and a successful king who’s been defamed by “...the scribbler of Stratford.”
Rodney Rothman tells Jim Fleming why he decided to "retire" at age 28 and go to live in a retirement community in Florida.