Walter Isaacson tells Steve Paulson that Einstein had a rebellious nature and that he didn't impress his teachers.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Tim Richardson tells Anne Strainchamps about his favorite candies from around the world.
Acclaimed fiction writer - and guest producer of this hour - Nathan Englander talks about creative problem solving. He invited musicologist and composer Freddy Knop to create a soundscape of how it feels when the muse descends.
Film critic Roger Ebert talks with Steve Paulson about why chess doesn’t seem to work on the silver screen.
One of the founders of queer theory says his childhood in the Pentecostal church laid the ground for his evolution as a gay man and literary scholar. Michael Warner grew up around faith healing and speaking in tongues. He says it was an education in thinking beyond "normal".
Sharon Jones is a black woman in her late 40s who fronts a band called the Dap-Kings...
Afghan-born writer Khaled Hosseini, author of "The Kite Runner," reads from his latest novel, "And the Mountains Echoed."
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