As the Books Editor of Paste Magazine, Charles McNair cares deeply about what we read. But McNair is concerned that we're only reading a handful of the artists available to us, thanks to what he calls a kind of geographic hegemony of taste-making. In other words - we're all reading the same books because a handful of respected critics on the East and West coasts tell us to.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Daniel Kammen, director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Lab at the University of California/Berkeley tells Anne Strainchamps about some wild energy alternatives that actually work.
Clark Strand is the author of "How to Believe in God," and a contributing editor at Tricycle: A Buddhist Review.
Erica Rowell has worked in the movie industry and as a journalist. She's the author of "The Brothers Grim: The Films of Ethan and Joel Coen."
Emily Parker bookmarks Mario Vargas Llosa's "Conversation in the Cathedral."
Bruce Campbell, (to his chagrin) still best known as “Ash” from “The Evil Dead” movies, talks with Jim Fleming about his memoir, “If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor.”
Benjamin Cavell reads a bit from a story called “The Ropes” - about an injured boxer - and talks with Steve Paulson about violence and masculinity.
David Kusek tells Jim Fleming how the digital music revolution is changing the way people consume music and what the record industry will have to do to survive.
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