Scott Russell Sanders tells Jim Fleming about the spiritual growth spurt he noticed in middle age, and reflects on how he now feels connected to his ancestors and the natural world.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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John Flansburgh and John Linnell comprise the musical duo “They Might Be Giants.” They talk with Steve Paulson about their music, and their obsession for old pop songs.
Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman talks about his book, "Thinking, Fast and Slow."
Anthropologist Tom Boellstorff takes us on a tour through the virtual world of Second Life.
A darkly comic debut novel explores the secretive world of industrial flavor manufacturers. Stephan Eirik Clark skewers the food industry, flavor science, and the American way of life.
There are moral and ethical issues that come up around war photography. Writer David Shields charged the New York Times with glamorizing war in photographs. Shields analyzed 100’s of pictures published on the front page of the Times and last year he wrote a book accusing the paper of making war beautiful. Charles Monroe-Kane sat down to talk with him.
Wesley Stace has a new novel, "Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer."
In 2003, Craig Mullaney led an infantry rifle platoon along the hostile border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. He recounts the experience in his memoir, "The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education."
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