Samuel Clemens was an energetic and passionate man who traveled the world and created a new American idiom.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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In this segment, we hear several love stories from the lives of TTBOOK listeners.
Restaurants serve food and feelings in this story by Nathan Witkin.
Shulem Deen was a Skverer— a member of one of the most insular Hasidic sects in the U.S. Then he got curious about secular life and the world outside his small village in Rockland County, NY. The community branded him a heretic and expelled him. And his wife and five children renounced him.
Nelson Algren wrote “A Walk on the Wild Side” and won the first National Book Award for “The Man with the Golden Arm,” but was too gritty for most critics
Thomas Friedman says the US is falling behind on the global stage.
Scott Topper's a poet, but that doesn't mean he's not conflicted about the twin powers of reading and writing.
Paleontologist Simon Conway Morris talks with Steve Paulson about convergence and the evolution of intelligence.
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