Steve Almond tells Steve Paulson how his evolution as a writer began with a teenage obsession with Kurt Vonnegut. Though he hid that passion for years, he revealed it recently in his book "Not That You Asked."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Tony Horwitz sailed aboard a replica of Captain James Cook’s “Endeavor” and wrote “Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook has Gone Before.”
For more than a decade, writer Walkter Kirn was friends with a wealthy eccentric named Clark Rockefeller. One day, he discovered the awful truth - the man he knew as Clark Rockefeller was a dangerous imposter.
Journalist Samuel Freedman says that American Jews are free to assimilate to whatever extent they choose, but this very freedom has caused new tensions and divisions within the Tribe.
Steven MacDonald plays bass. He recorded himself playing along with the band White Stripes’ latest CD. Then he made the altered music available on the internet.
Susan Sontag’s new book about the imagery of war is “Regarding the Pain of Others.” She says that graphic war photos can be very powerful, but they often elicit complicated reactions among viewers.
Before there was Wikileaks, before there was Wikipedia… Before there was Facebook and Twitter and blogs… there was a computer programmer named Ward Cunningham. He’s the guy who, back in 1995, invented the wiki.
Helen Turrner is the "Queen of Barbecue," the owner and pitmaster of Helen's Bar-B-Q in Brownsville, Tennessee. She's one of the few women pitmasters.
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