Meg Gaines is an attorney who was diagnosed in 1994 with terminal, inoperable ovarian cancer. She is now cancer free.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jay Parini is a poet, novelist and teacher. He's also the author of "Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America." He tells Jim Fleming that his is not a list of "great books" but rather books that significantly changed the literary climate of American culture.
Nicholas Basbanes tells Steve Paulson that people destroy books to annihilate the culture of their enemies and remembers some of the heroes who fought to save books from the Nazis and in Bosnia.
Reihan Salam critiqued the movie "Gandhi" for Slate Magazine in an article called "Meet the Hindustani Malcolm X."
Jessica Lamb-Shapiro attended a conference of self-help authors featuring Mark Victor Hansen of "Chicken Soup for the..." fame.
Richard Powers reads an excerpt from his novel, "Orfeo," inspired by the music of Mahler and set to Mahler's "Kindertotenlieder."
Will we ever understand the true nature of dark matter and dark energy? In this UNCUT interview, Harvard cosmologist Lisa Randall considers these and other great mysteries in physics.
Australian novelist Peter Carey talks with Steve Paulson about "My Life as a Fake," and the peculiar career of the great Australian poet who never existed.
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