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Wesley Stace on "Tristram Shandy"

Novelist Wesley Stace (AKA musician John Wesley Harding) tells Jim what the original novel, "Tristram Shandy," is all about.

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Stephen Bloom on Orthodox Jews In Iowa

Stephen Bloom tells Jim Fleming about a group of Orthodox Jews who moved from Brooklyn to Postville to run a kosher slaughterhouse.

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Simon Conway Morris on Inevitable Humans

Paleontologist Simon Conway Morris talks with Steve Paulson about convergence and the evolution of intelligence.

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The Bad Plus on Music

The Bad Plus is a hot young jazz trio that puts a jazz spin of rock classics from Nirvana and Black Sabbath. 

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Zach Helm on "Stranger Than Fiction"

Zach Helm wrote the screenplay for "Stranger than Fiction," in which Will Ferrell hears the voice of Emma Thompson apparently narrating his life.

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Tom Wolfe reads "The Postman Always Rings Twice"

Tom Wolfe reads the opening to "The Postman Always Rings Twice" and explains why it's his favorite.

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Steve Venwright on "The Further Somniloquies of Dion McGregor"

Steve Venwright put out a CD called “The Further Somniloquies of Dion McGregor.”  McGregor talks in his sleep like you’ve never heard before.

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Susan Ehrlich: When the Patient is Your Father

Essayist Susan Ehrlich is a practicing pediatrian who remembers what it was like treating her father during his final hours.

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