For 26 years, Dan Pierotti knew — really knew — that his days were numbered. In 1988 he was diagnosed with congestive heart failure. In this second installment of his story, Dan and his wife Judy talk about the dealing with medication, hospice and Dan's decreasing mobility. And they consider whether or not he will stop taking the medicine that keeps him alive.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Happy Valentine's Day! Looking for a new take on love? Psychologist Barbara Fredrickson has been studying the emotion and has a new definition. In this EXTENDED interview, she also talks about how to build more of it into our days.
Novelist Ana Menendez talks about her book “Loving Che.” She reads a passage and they discuss the real Che Guevara and his impact on Latin America.
Doug Gordon profiles Anne Beatts, one of the original writers for the groundbreaking late night comedy series "Saturday Night Live".
Alaa Al Aswany is one of the top-selling novelists in the Arab world, but because copyright protections are weak there, he still works part-time as a dentist.
Much of what we think about Karl Marx is wrong, according to cultural critic Terry Eagleton. And he says Marx admired capitalism, though he was also its most trenchant critic.
Anne Fadiman talks about the delight she and her brother took as children with collecting (and killing) butterflies.
Why does this teenager believe that poetry is the literary art most relevant to our lives today?
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