Humorist Roy Blount Junior talks about some of his favorite rambles in New Orleans, with observations on oysters, New Orleans characters and the city’s history.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Steve Paulson filed this report on his experience at Cambridge University with comments from Ken Wilber, E.O. Wilson, Karen Armstrong, and Richard Dawkins.
Sandra Luckow is a ventriloquist herself, who tells him Fleming about her relationship with her "carved figure" Juanito.
Vince Staten tells Anne Strainchamps that barbershops give men a sense of community as well as haircuts and that nothing beats a barbershop shave.
Celebrated novelist T.C. Boyle talks about his latest book, "The Harder They Come," which explores the roots of violence in America.
The Book of Pythia is part of the sacred scrolls of the Twelve Tribes of Kobol and in the four seasons of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica, The Book of Pythia plays a crucial role. This may be a fictional universe, but the book itself is real.
One hundred years ago, Fritz Haber invented the first chemical weapon and convinced the German army to use it. His wife Clara, also a chemist, fiercely opposed her husband's project. When she couldn't stop it, she committed suicide. Judith Claire Mitchell tells the story in her tragic and yet funny novel "A Reunion of Ghosts."
Former Senator Bob Kerrey talks with Steve Paulson about one bloody night in Vietnam that has haunted him for decades.
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