Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer talks about his book, "The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine and Modern American Life."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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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.
Few Latin American novelists are as beloved across the globe as Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Here’s Steve Paulson’s 2006 interview with translator Edith Grossman, who’s done more than anyone to bring Garcia Marquez to the English reading world.
Satish Kumar became a Jain monk at the age of nine. Now he's the editor of Resurgence magazine...
Terry Moore has just concluded the fourteen year run of his series "Strangers in Paradise" which chronicled the lives or ordinary people.
Science writer Winifred Gallagher has come to the rescue of the decor challenged with her book "House Thinking: A Room by Room Look at How We Live."
Nothing makes Hope Jahren happier than tinkering in her lab, studying fossilized plants. We hear the story behind her acclaimed memoir, “Lab Girl.”
Most of us are hungry for light. We crave sunny days and clear skies, we like big windows and well-lit rooms. But some people have a more complicated relationship with light. John Merfeld, a physics student at Tufts University, has a genetic condition called albinism that renders his body unable to properly absorb light. It's made him acutely aware of its unique power, beauty, and danger.
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