Michael Chabon wrote “Wonder Boys,” the source for the popular Michael Douglas film, and won the Pulitzer Prize for “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay.” Now he’s written a children’s book, “Summerland.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Rob Richie is executive director of the Center for Voting and Democracy. He talks about how the system of instant run off voting works and why a lot of people, including John McCain and Howard Dean, think it’s a good idea.
Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis talks about "On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind."
How do young people in Burma use karaoke as a form of political protest?
Jonathan Pieslak, author of "Sound Targets: American Soldiers and the Music in the Iraq War," talks with Jim Fleming about how U.S. forces use music and who they listen to.
More than 30 million Americans live in small towns. And lots of us will drive through small towns on road trips this summer. Princeton sociologist Robert Wuthnow just completed the first comprehensive study in half a century of small-town living. Here's his conversation with Anne...
Jason Spingarn-Koff is a film-maker whose new documentary is called "Life 2.0." It tells the stories of several people who immerse themselves in the "Second Life" computer game...
Jill Price can remember every day of her life since the age of 14. She's one of only half a dozen people diagnosed with "hyperthymesia" - a fancy word for nearly total recall.
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