She is the child of fundamentalist Christians but her father was a forest ranger and she grew up in a remote wilderness cabin.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Diana Athill was the editor of some of the most celebrated writers of our time, including John Updike, Simone de Beauvoir, and V.S. Naipaul.
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."
Christine Yano tells Steve Paulson about Japanese “enka” music – songs that are intended to make listeners and performers cry.
Bart Cheever is one of the founders of D.FILM - a touring Digital Film Festival. He says that digital photography makes it possible for anyone to make professional quality films
An Iraq War veteran struggles with PTSD and addiction. What's it really like coming home from war?
Social critic Bill McKibben says we’re rushing through a momentous doorway into a new age of human evolution
Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman is fascinated by the way memory shapes our sense of self. In this EXTENDED interview, he says our memories can be quite different from what we actually experience.
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