“How To Lose Friends and Alienate People” is the title of Toby Young’s memoir of his experience working for “Vanity Fair” magazine. The book was so successful, Young turned it into a play.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Suze Rotolo was Bob Dylan's inseparable companion in the early 60s'. She's now written a memoir called "A Freewheelin' Time."
Sally Denton and Roger Morris tell Steve Paulson that people go to “Sin City” to have a good time, but the city is the international capital of money laundering.
Whose America is it? Writer Thomas King has strong feelings about that. He says Native Americans have been many things to white people. Slaves, stereotypes, savages. And always inconvenient.
Reinhold Messner is arguably the world’s greatest living mountaineer. He’s climbed 14 of the world’s tallest peaks, and if that isn’t impressive enough, he was the first to climb Mt. Everest alone and without supplemental oxygen. He recounts some of these adventures in a new book called “Reinhold Messner: My Life at the Limit.” Steve Paulson caught up with him and asked how he got hooked on climbing.
Ron Mallett has been fascinated with the idea of time travel since his dad's early death.
Reporter Scott Wallace joined Brazilian explorer Sidney Posseulo on an expedition deep into the Amazon in search of one of the last uncontacted tribes, the Arrow People.
Stephen Greenblatt tells the remarkable story of how the discovery of an ancient poem helped launch the Scientific Revolution. Also, an excerpt from Lucretius' poem "On the Nature of Things."
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