"There is nothing romantic about death," Christian Wiman says.
The poet and editor of Poetry Magazine has been battling blood cancer for years. In his most recent book of poems he breathes life into writing about mortality.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Steven Okazaki is a third generation Japanese-American and an Academy Award winning film-maker. He tells Jim Fleming that Japanese-Americans face racism both at home and in Japan.
Film critic Roger Ebert talks with Steve Paulson about why chess doesn’t seem to work on the silver screen.
What are you making? In San Francisco, two radio producers are collecting stories in a project called “The Making Of...”
Satish Kumar became a Jain monk at the age of nine. Now he's the editor of Resurgence magazine...
Steve Lopez is the author of "The Soloist," a book about a homeless musician named Nathaniel Ayers. Lopez talks with Anne Strainchamps about how he found Ayers and what he learned from him.
Celebrated novelist T.C. Boyle talks about his latest book, "The Harder They Come," which explores the roots of violence in America.
The demographics of the United States are changing: how does the latest wave of immigration fit into the historical pattern?
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