Alexandra Fuller was the child of white farmers in the former Rhodesia. Her memoir is called “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Reporter Ann Hepperman examines the impact Starbucks has had on Flagstaff, Arizona. It’s the homogenization of American culture vs. reliably good coffee!
Kevin Powers served as a machine gunner in Iraq in 2004 and 2005. His novel “The Yellow Birds” was a finalist for the National Book Award.
Andrea di Robilant is an Italian journalist from an old Venetian family who's made a novel out of the story contained in some letters from his family's attic.
Novelist Hari Kunzru talks about listening through the scratch and hiss of old 78’s for the voice of the past.
Adam Frank is an atheist with a spiritual bent. As an astrophysicist, his yearning for the sacred is rooted in science. It's an impulse going back to his childhood.
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