David Hajdu recently wrote a controversial article for The New Republic about the legacy of Alan Lomax. Lomax and his father made field recordings of thousands of folk and blues songs including work by Leadbelly and Muddy Waters.
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TTBOOK producer Doug Gordon profiles country singer/songwriter Carlene Carter. She's the granddaughter of Maybelle Carter, and daughter of June Carter.
Social critic Bill McKibben says we’re rushing through a momentous doorway into a new age of human evolution
Edward P. Jones won the Pulitzer Prize for his first novel, "The Known World." His short story collection is called "All Aunt Hagar's Children."
In Connie Willis' world, historians can actually go to the past to study.
Carl Klaus is the author of "Letters to Kate." It's a collection of the letters he wrote to his wife in the first year after her death.
Jon Ronson's Dangerous Idea -- Can Too Much Christmas Drive Kids to Kill?
Charles Monroe-Kane tells a story from his car-racing background.
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