Steve Paulson talks with writers and editors about the enduring influence of Vladimir Nabokov's novel "Lolita."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Shaun Alexander tells Steve Paulson what chess does for him and why he thinks it’s good for inner city youth.
Biblical archaeology can rewrite and reshape history. But there’s theology at stake, too. Like when the Gnostic Gospels were discovered in 1945 buried in the Egypt.
Would you like to read the Gospel of Thomas? Click here for the full text.
Some of the greatest trips give us that feeling of traveling back in time. Last summer, Aubrey Ralph did nearly that, when he spent nine days sailing aboard a 200 year old tall ship, across two Great Lakes. He was with the reconstructed U.S. Brig Niagara as she shoved off from her home port in Erie, PA.
The novelist and feminist critic talks about tackling her trolls and “writing to the point of uncomfortability.”
Rather than making our stories better - or attempting to stop telling them altogether - Jonathan Harris is helping people combine their stories in a bid to unveil the "ecstatic truth" of human life. Anne Strainchamps asked Harris about his storytelling platform, Cowbird.
Listen to the UNCUT interview here.
Tom Carson is a novelist, television critic and the author of “Gilligan’s Wake.” He talks about blending James Joyce’s classic “Finnegan’s Wake” with those seven wacky castaways from “Gilligan’s Island.”
Sy Montgomery talks about a very personable octopus, and the species's remarkable intelligence.
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