Siberia is vast... and writer Ian Frazier has crossed it all. He fell in love with the place he calls, “greatest horrible country.”
Siberia is vast... and writer Ian Frazier has crossed it all. He fell in love with the place he calls, “greatest horrible country.”
G. Willow Wilson just won the World Fantasy Award for her novel, “Alif the Unseen”. Also, Marvel Comics is launching a new Muslim girl super-hero and Willow will be the series’ writer.
William Ury tells Jim Fleming that simply being able to talk about past oppression is a powerful healing tool.
And please, don’t forget Gary Brockman. He makes his living from his collection. Baseball cards? Stamps? Nope. Gary collects buttons. And not just any buttons, 19th century buttons.
A big cat biologist goes on a blind date. It doesn't go well. Writer Ben Hoffman reads from a work in progress.
Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne called their Wisconsin home Ten Chimneys. Jim Fleming takes us to visit the property.
Writer Richard Rodriguez views his so-called brown identity as a racial mixture, dating back to the colonization of the Americas. He tells us why he celebrates being brown, and embraces the term "Hispanic."
Simon Winchester talks about the enormous volcanic eruption of Krakatoa in Indonesia in 1883. The tidal waves killed almost forty thousand people, and the resulting social chaos gave rise to the first incidents of Muslim clerics fomenting violent uprisings against Westerners.