Sven Birkerts tried to write a novel, but realized he had more success writing about fiction than writing fiction. He tells Steve Paulson how he became a literary critic.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Self-described former jihadist Mubin Shaikh recounts his journey into, and out of, extremism.
William Gibson talks about coining the word "cyberspace" to use in his fiction.
Thomas Campanella tells Jim Fleming the Elm tree once spread its arching branches over trees from one end of the country to the other, but in the end it was loved to death.
Rosanne Cash is the daughter of country music legend Johnny Cash, but she's forged her own very successful career in music.
Walter Moskowitz is a tattoo legend. Before he passed away in 2007, he ran the first commercial tattoo parlor on Long Island.
Music critic Tom Moon is the author of "1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die: A Listener's Life List." Moon tells Steve Paulson why he chose what he chose and we hear some of his favorites.
For centuries religions set moral boundaries. In his new book “The Moral Landscape” prominent atheist Sam Harris argues that science should set them.
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