If you're looking for a grand adventure in retirement, Lynne and Tim Martin have an idea: sell your house and then live in rental houses around the world.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Susan Jacoby gives several frightening examples of the way American culture is dumbing itself down, and how poorly educated many American college graduates are.
Robert Crumb and Sophie Crumb tell Steve Paulson about her development and work.
Award-winning novelist Jane Hamilton's new novel has a setting that's close to home. "The Excellent Lombards" is a story of generational tension set on a family apple farm. Steve Paulson talks about writing, farming and apples with Jane while walking through her own family orchard.
David Mikics talks about his book, "Slow Reading in a Hurried Age."
Steve Grand tells Jim Fleming about Norns – virtual pets that live and breed in desktop computers. He says the Norns give us a way to explore questions about what it means to be alive and what rights and responsibilities "living" creatures have.
Terry Tempest Williams reads from her book, "Red," and talks about the desert with Steve Paulson.
Samuel Clemens was an energetic and passionate man who traveled the world and created a new American idiom.
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