Russ Parsons tells Jim Fleming how to make a great french fry, and why potatoes are only the beginning!
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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British novelist Tony Parsons tells Steve Paulson why “Man and Boy” has been such a huge hit and remembers how difficult it was for his own father to express emotion.
Outstanding playwright and performer Sarah Jones takes us inside creating characters. She won a Tony for her multi-character solo show, "Bridge & Tunnel," which was a long running hit on Broadway.
What turns you on?
Sure, there are the obvious answers: beauty, brains, braun. But human sexuality is a complicated business. Studying it is more complicated still. That was, until the internet came along.
William Irwin tells Steve Paulson how philosophical questions echo throughout popular culture with several examples from Seinfeld and The Simpsons.
Ted Steinberg tells Jim Fleming that Americans love perfect mono-cultures and are willing to over-water and freely use chemical fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides to achieve them.
Jamie Coots, the pastor at the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus’ Name, in Middlesboro, Kentucky, died after he was bitten by a rattlesnake he was handling during a church service. We interviewed him a few weeks before his death.
Patricia Lockwood is a rising star on the poetry scene. She's been dubbed the "poet laureate of Twitter,” and her latest collection, “Motherland, Fatherland, Homelandsexuals" is making waves. This also includes a bonus reading of Lockwood's poem, "Revealing Nature Photographs."
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